Courtesy of Hennepin County Jail
A man who attacked his parents and left them seriously wounded last year in Champlin has been ordered to serve 11 years in prison, court records show.
Travis William Lester, 40, pleaded guilty last month to two counts of second-degree attempted murder. A judge sentenced him on Friday to 135 months and 15 days, with credit for 245 days served in jail.
According to a criminal complaint, police responded to a report of a domestic assault on the 7100 block of 120th Avenue North the evening of Sept. 5. A neighbor had found a woman covered in blood, and police found another victim, a man, bloodied on the deck of the home.
The man said his son, Lester, had stabbed him and his wife in what he described as a “drug-induced rage.”
Both victims were taken to the hospital in critical condition and received emergency surgery for their injuries.
Lester was later arrested when officers spotted his car in Lino Lakes. A butcher knife and a jar containing suspected methamphetamine were recovered from the vehicle.
Lester admitted to stabbing his parents and said he had been thinking about doing it for “a day or two,” court documents state.
Courtesy of KSTP
