A Michigan man wielded an ax he calls ‘his baby’ to fend off a convicted criminal who tried to break into his apartment on Wednesday night.
Ben Ball, 36, used a replica battle-ax to chop through the intruder, 33-year-old Alex Lavell Rawls, who is facing a charge of first-degree home invasion.
Ball says the suspect dated his former roommate, but she moved away to distance herself from the convicted felon. Rawls showed up at the apartment at 11:30 p.m. thinking she was still there, according to Wood TV.
He repeatedly knocked on the door before kicking it in while Ball was sitting at home playing video games and watching the TV show, Rick and Morty. Ball says he believed Rawls was carrying a firearm, the outlet reported.
When the door opened, he decided to go medieval.
“[The] door opened, [I] grabbed the ax, [then] step, step, hit,” he told Wood TV.
He struck Rawls at least once in the torso with the sharp blade before the two continued to fight in the apartment.
“There was a bloody mess everywhere,” Ball said.