Son accused of killing father with ax

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A 19-year-old man was in the Bexar County Jail after he allegedly struck his father in the head repeatedly with an ax.

The victim died after his son, Marshall Lee Giles, who goes by the name Lil Sicc, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. Bond was set at $20,000.

Officers were called to the home, in the 1900 block of East Crockett Street, about 11 p.m. Wednesday, according to a police report. They found the victim — also named Marshall Lee Giles, who goes by the nickname Ernest Johnson — on the couch, moaning and bleeding from several large cuts on his head. His left eye was hanging from the socket.

An officer spoke to the victim's wife, who told police she had gone to a store with her grandson to buy cigarettes. She returned and was smoking outside the house, unaware her husband had been injured, she said, until she went inside and saw him bleeding, according to the report.

The grandson first told officers a man he didn't know had attacked the victim and then fled out a back door, the report said. Then he said that Giles, or Lil Sicc, “tugged him on his shoulder” and said he loved him before he ran away. The officer asked the grandson if Giles had stabbed the victim, and he said he wasn't sure, the report said.

But the grandson later admitted the younger Giles had hit the elder Giles in the head with the ax, the report said.

Investigators at the scene spotted the suspect coming out of a crawl space on the side of the house and arrested him, the report said. They found the weapon, a “hatchet with long handle,” in the crawl space.

As police took the suspect away, he asked if the victim was still alive. He later gave “a full confession,” the report said.

But as he was booked into the jail, the report said, the younger Giles began to “smile and laugh” after an officer explained to a detention officer why he was being arrested.

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