Man beaten to death with baseball bat in Lakeville; friend held

The Associated Press - Monday, March 17, 2008

LAKEVILLE, Minn.

Police are holding a adult male in the whipping decease of his friend in the southern Twin Cities suburbia of Lakeville.

Police state the two work force had gone out Saturday eventide before returning to the suspect's Lakeville town house.

A fighting broke out, and the victim was struck with a baseball game bat.

The 31-year-old fishy called 911, but the victim - 33-year-old Joshua John Jay Skare of Apple Valley - was dead at the scene.

Officers arrested the friend.

Police are investigating the decease as a homicide.