A video captures a 55-year-old woman who was beheaded by the attacker, who then threw her body on the street.
The attack occurred at around 2:30 pm local time on Wednesday in Shakope, Minnesota. According to reports, videos circulating on the Internet showed a woman named America Mafalda Thayer was beheaded by a male assailant before dumping her body on the road.
“We know that a bystander took a video of this incident,” Shakopi Policemen Chief Jeff Tate told the Minnesota News website to “bring me to the news.” “We have that video. It is deeply disturbing that the first reaction is to post it on social media.”
According to a KMSP-TV report, the police found Thayer’s head leaning against her body, close to a car. Then they found a scabbard in a nearby yard and a knife in a trash can in a nearby alley.
Soon after, the police arrested a 42-year-old man named Alexis Saborit on suspicion of second-degree murder. According to WCCO-TV, the police believe that Saborit has a long-term relationship with Thayer and this is not a random act of violence.
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According to the Scott County Attorney’s Office, although Saborit is being held at the Scott County Jail, he has not been charged as of Thursday afternoon. Court records show that Saborite was previously convicted of a serious misdemeanor of family assault. In American law, serious misdemeanors are considered more serious than ordinary misdemeanors.
Thayer is a Cuban immigrant who worked in Dollar Tree and MyPillow in Shakopee. A colleague told SW News that domestic abuse has been an ongoing problem between her and Saborit.
Jamie Wally is Thayer’s colleague and friend. She says she is amiable and speaks softly.
“Go to the store and buy her a rose and a teddy bear on her table,” Thayer said. After Thayer was murdered, he recounted his day in MyPillow. “When I got there, I didn’t even look at any of my other colleagues. I just stood at her desk with my head down. Everyone was crying. It was a very emotional day, and it still is.”
The police station expressed its gratitude to the agencies that assisted in the murder and investigation. The Minnesota Criminal Arrest Bureau helped investigate the crime scene. The police also expressed condolences to Thayer’s family.
According to the National Anti-Domestic Violence Coalition, approximately one-quarter of women and one-ninth of men have experienced severe intimate partner physical violence.
Nearly half of the women murdered in the U.S. from 2008 to 2018 were killed by their current or former intimate partners. Washington post Written in an article in 2018. In an analysis of five cities, nearly one-third of male murderers are known to be potential threats before the attack.
Weekly newspaper Contacted the Shakopee police station for comments.
