A one-year-old California boy is being remembered as a “kind and joyful soul” after his father has been accused of beheading him.
On Friday, Dec. 20, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) said in a press release shared on Facebook that Andrey Demskiy was arrested around 4:15 a.m. local time that morning following a 911 call about a “family disturbance.”
SCSO North Patrol deputies responded, and Demskiy, 28, was accused by his wife of assaulting her and her mother, police said.
After Demskiy “refused to answer the door and surrender peacefully,” authorities learned that a toddler was alone in the residence with the man. They wrote that the father had “possibly injured the child after throwing him.” SCSO deputies then “forced entered” the home, they said.
Once inside, police discovered the “uncooperative” and “physically resistive” Demskiy, as well as the severed head of a child in a bedroom. The Sheriff’s Child Abuse Bureau Detectives, as …