A Minnesota man was arrested this week over the fatal assault on his elderly father inside their Minnetonka residence.
A neighbor found 72-year-old Frederick Schech dead in the kitchen of the second-floor apartment he shared with his 39-year-old son Jacob Schech.
The victim's wife had called the neighbor multiple times late Wednesday asking her to check on the pair because they weren't answering their phones.
Police learned from the neighbor who lives downstairs that she had last saw Jacob drinking and giving his dad “a hard time” as the older man worked on the pool.
Shortly after that, the woman heard a “loud crash” and sounds of stomping from the father and son's apartment.
The woman called 911 at around 1 a.m. when she went to check on Fredrick and his son as she was asked to. She found the son asleep on the couch while his father's body layed lifeless on the kitchen floor.
Jacob told the neighbor that his father “needed to die” adding that he “was going to give him crab legs, and then, you know, he just needs to die. And mom knows he needs to die, and I would have just let mom handle it.”
Authorities said that Fredrick Schech succumbed to multiple blunt force trauma injuries including skull, neck, face, and rib fractures.
