Man charged with beheading woman in Minneapolis suburb
August 2, 2021 6:55AM CDT
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SHAKOPEE, Minn. (AP) — A man is charged with beheading a woman while they were in a car in traffic in a Minneapolis suburb.
Alexis Saborit was charged Friday with second-degree intentional murder in the knife attack on America Thayer, which happened Wednesday afternoon in Shakopee.
Several people witnessed the attack. When police arrived, they found Thayer’s body and head. A machete-style knife was in an alley a few blocks away.
Authorities have not said what motivated the attack, but Soborit has a criminal history that includes a domestic assault conviction for an attack against Thayer in 2017. At that time, she said they had been dating for seven years.
