A 37-year-old man in Minnesota has been arrested after he allegedly beat his female roommate to death in brutal fashion — exposing her skull and leaving blood spatter on her sleeping toddler — before trying to claim the victim's fatal injuries were the result of her falling in the shower.

Shay Michael Benson was taken into custody over the weekend and charged with one count of second-degree murder with intent, records show.

According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, officers with the Richfield Police Department at about 5:01 a.m. on Sunday responded to a 911 call at a residence in the 6400 block of Bloomington Avenue South regarding an injured female victim. The home is just a few miles south of Minneapolis.

The caller, identified as Benson, told the dispatcher that

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