A Minnesota man was on a “mission” when he broke into an elderly man's hunting cabin in the countryside, shot his father multiple times before fleeing, and then executed him in front of his relatives.
Kirk Edward Haslett III fired nine shots, including one in the head, at his father, Kirk Edward Haslett II, 64, in his living room on Nov. 15 in Pine County. It is said that he died by forming a pool of blood on the floor. According to police records obtained by North Pine County News.
Around 8:40 p.m., the suspect was seen on a tracking camera walking toward the family's hunting lodge with a handgun, and the victim's younger brother noticed the commotion and ran to the bedroom. He was filmed going to retrieve a gun.
According to a criminal complaint seen by the outlet, Hazlett III entered the cabin through a side door and shot his father at least three times.
When the gunman's uncle returned, he found his brother lying on the ground near the couch.
“(He) was still alive and breathing a little.”
Another relative recalled saying nothing when the suspect broke in and immediately opened fire.
“He went in with a mission…to kill him,” an unidentified relative said, according to the report.
Hazlett III and his father had not gotten along “for some time” because the suspected killer “did not have a good relationship with his family,” the report added.
Hazlett III, now facing two other relatives, reportedly ordered them to sit on a couch as they pleaded for his life.
Hazlett III turned and shot his father in the head “execution style” to “make sure he was dead,” the Kansas City Star reported.
Hazlett III ordered the two relatives to hand over the phones before letting them leave the cabin.
The freed relatives rushed to a neighbor's house, where police were called.
By the time emergency personnel arrived at the wooded area on Burns Spring Road in Hinckley, Hazlett III had fled the scene and his father was pronounced dead at the scene. Pine County Sheriff.
Instead of going into hiding, Hazlett III returned to his home in Cambridge, about 8 miles from the cabin, where he called the Isanti County Sheriff's Office out of concern for his girlfriend.
Hazlett III was arrested at his home and charged with second-degree murder, robbery and kidnapping.
He is being held at the Pine County Sheriff's Office on a $3 million bond, according to jail records reviewed by the newspaper.
In October, police were called to the cabin in reference to a disturbance between Haslett III and his father.
The enraged son drank alcohol and threatened his father, according to the North Pine County News.
Hazlett II told police that her son was not welcome at the cabin and had been trespassed onto the property.
Hazlett III's girlfriend said her boyfriend and his family “didn't see eye to eye” and was unhappy with new surveillance cameras the family installed near their cabin, and that they had not “tagged” deer this year. There was no, the report said. he claimed.
