Dad Walks Into Police Station Covered in Blood and with His Hands Up - Cops Visit Sex Offender's House and Find a Gruesome Scene

A father last week surrendered himself to police after claiming he used a 
moose antler and shovel to beat a man to death.

Levi William Axtel said he believed the victim was abusing children, 
according to NBC. Axtell was later charged with second-degree murder.

The victim was identified by the U.K. Daily Mail as Lawrence Scully, who 
was convicted in 1979 of molesting a 6-year-old girl.

According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Axtell arrived at the Cook 
County Sheriff’s Office covered in blood.

According to court documents, Axtell entered the lobby, fell to his knees, 
“put his hands on his head and said that he had murdered [Scully] with a 
shovel.”

He said he wanted to be handcuffed to ensure no one else was hurt.

Axtell said he found a shovel on the deck of the house where Scully lived, 
hit him 15 to 20 times with it and then “finished him off” by hitting 
Scully with a large moose antler.

He said he had known Scully for several years “and believed him to have 
sexually offended against children in the past,” a complaint against 
Axtell said. “[Axtell] said he had observed [Scully] parked in the vehicle 
at locations where children were present and believed he would reoffend.”

A sheriff’s deputy went to Scully’s Grand Marais home and found the man 
“obviously dead from the serious nature of his head wounds,” the complaint 
said.

According to the Daily Mail, Scully was 33 in 1979 when he was jailed for 
molesting a 6-year-old girl. He pleaded guilty and was released from 
prison in 1981. In 2018, he faced allegations of sexual misconduct 
involving minors.

Also in 2018, Axtell tried to secure an order of protection against Scully 
on behalf of his daughter.

“The respondent waits for victim to go on walks from daycare and tries to 
talk to her. … He has been there many times stalking children in his van. 
I have seen him parked right next to the school. … He is a convicted 
pedophile and him stalking and attempting to groom my daughter is 
completely inappropriate and needs to stop,” Axtell wrote then. He won a 
temporary order, but a judge dismissed the case for a permanent order.

In July 2020, Scully was sent to a mental asylum but was released in 2021.

According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, in 2020, Axtell posted on 
Facebook a photo of a gun with the words “Only cure for pedophiles. A 
bullet.”

“People always ask me why I hate pedophiles. They assume I’ve been abused. 
But really I think being protective is just an Axtell trait,” he wrote at 
the time, the outlet reported.

Cook County Sheriff Pat Eliasen said there had been allegations against 
Scully, “but an investigation didn’t reveal anything.”

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