8/4/2021- 11:59 a.m.
Alexis Saborit was arrested for allegedly “beheading and dumping the ‘bloody body’ of America Thayer, 55, a Minnesota woman he allegedly was in a relationship with on the street,” police said.
Disturbing footage circulating online appeared to show the moment America Thayer, 55, was dragged from her car and attacked before her body was left on the pavement in Shakopee on Wednesday.
Alexis Saborit was caught shortly afterwards near a hotel he had been staying and appeared to admit to police that he killed America Thayer because she wanted to break up.
“On the way to court, Victim told the Defendant she wanted to get rid of the Defendant and end her relationship with him.
The Defendant said he used a knife to kill Victim because she had “gone too far” in her abuse of him and in her comments about ending their relationship,” the court document read.
The witness said they then saw Alexis Saborit drag what looked like a body out of the car.
Another person recorded video through a residential window that appeared to show Alexis Saborit pull America Thayer out of the car and then pick up her head by the hair.
On Wednesday, Alexis Saborit and America Thayer were together earlier in the day and went to the park.
Authorities have not said what motivated the attack, but Alexis Saborit has a criminal history that includes a domestic assault conviction for an attack against America Thayer in 2017.
The knife also appeared to fit the sheath found at the crime scene, the document claims.
Friends described Americ Thayer as a bubbly and outgoing person who was popular with customers in her retail jobs.
Former co-worker Eileen Necklen told the Star Tribune: “She was always in an upbeat mood.
“Lori Stejskal, another one of America Thayer’s colleagues at Dollar Tree, said of the alleged murder:
“I was shocked, but not surprised because of the way [Saborit] had been.”Lori is one of three women who worked at Dollar Tree to claim they saw signs of domestic abuse.
Reba Skaar, who worked with Thayer for three years at a Dollar Tree store in the area, told the Star Tribune that Alexis Saborit had once not let her use the bathroom alone on a visit to her apartment and was “just dangerous.”
Skaar also claimed that America Thayer would sometimes spend the night sleeping at her desk at her MyPillow job or in her car at the Amazon fulfillment center parking lot.
