Clockwise from left: Alexis Truesdell, Spencer Adam Edwards, Sheppherd Lawrence Robins-Priestly (Freeborn County Jail Roster via KAAL).
A Minnesota teen who allegedly fractured a man’s skull with a golf club during a parking lot fight will not serve any more time behind bars.
Alexis Mae Truesdell, 19, was part of a four-person melee in February that left a male victim, who was not identified in court documents, with a fractured skull. According to a criminal complaint, Truesdell admitted to hitting the victim “a little too hard” with a golf club during an apparent faceoff that was a continuation of a confrontation earlier that day.
On Wednesday, she was sentenced to two years of probation. Court records show that she was also sentenced to 16 days in the Freeborn County Jail, but given credit for time served.
“Defendant is placed on supervised probation for 2 years, monitored by MN Department of Corrections – Field Services.” court documents say. Truesdell pleaded guilty in November to second-degree rioting while armed with a dangerous weapon. A charge of second-degree assault resulting in bodily harm was dropped.
The criminal complaint detailed what allegedly happened in the parking lot. Police were dispatched to the parking lot regarding a “large group fighting.” One person had reportedly struck another in the face with a bat and others had golf clubs, the complaint says.
A responding officer found the victim, who was not identified in the complaint, “lying on the ground on his back with his forehead covered in blood.” During a hospital interview, the victim said he was in the parking lot with friends when Truesdell arrived with three other people in her car.
“The victim said that he had brought a golf club with him for protection because of events earlier in the day involving the defendant’s aggressive and threatening behavior,” the complaint noted.
Witnesses confirmed that the victim was, indeed, struck in the head by a golf club. Truesdell reportedly admitted that she did it.
“The defendant said that the victim and his friends were ‘screwing around’ and that the victim had a golf club and was swinging it around,” the complaint says. “She said that she took the club out of his hands and ‘bashed him over the head with it, a little too hard’ … She said that the victim had been swinging the club around like he was going to hit her or her car so she grabbed it out of his hands and hit him over the head. She said that she didn’t know what he was trying to do with the club, like bash her windows or what.”
Truesdell told police that after she grabbed the club from the victim, he didn’t come after her.
“No, not after I grabbed it, no, because he knew like back the f— up,” the complaint describes Truesdell as saying.
“She said that he stood there looking at her as if she were dumb, and she was like, ‘what’ and that’s when she hit him over the head,” the complaint said. “At times she laughed as she described hitting the victim and said that after she grabbed the club from him, he just stood there and looked at her as if she were dumb. She said that she hit him once and pointed to her forehead about 3 seconds after she grabbed the club from him. She said that she hit him, ‘as hard as I could’.”
Police determined that the victim suffered a fractured skull.
“He said that the defendant struck him in the head with the golf club and that things went white and he couldn’t hear anything,” the complaint recalls the victim saying.
Two other people accused in the fight, Spencer Adam Edwards and Sheppherd Lawrence Robins-Priestly, have also pleaded guilty and will be sentenced in January, Rochester ABC affiliate KAAL reported.
The victim reportedly claimed that he was fighting off Robins-Priestly when Truesdell struck him with the golf club.
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