‘I Don’t Want to Die Tonight’: SLP Man Accused of Clubbing Wife, Daughter with Knife

A St. Louis Park man is accused of clubbing his wife and 15-year-old daughter with the handle end of a knife.

Robert Lee Ranzy, 47, is charged with one felony count of terrorizing threats for the Oct. 26 incident.

According to the criminal complaint:

Ranzy and his wife returned from a night of drinking late on Oct. 25 to their home on the 2700 block of Hampshire Avenue.

Ranzy’s daughter was awoken from sleep in her second-story bedroom when she heard a loud pounding and her mother’s voice yelling, “Stop!” coming from below, she told police. She heard her father say, “Oh, you want to scream.”

Ranzy’s wife then came upstairs, where her three children had gathered together.

Ranzy followed his wife up the stairs and pointed a knife in the faces of all three of his children.

His wife told police she was thinking how she did not want to die in front of her children.

“God, please, I don’t want to die tonight,” she thought to herself.

Ranzy hit his 15-year-old daughter on the head with the knife, the girl said. Police found swelling and a bump on her head.

Ranzy also hit his wife with the knife on the head, according to the criminal complaint. The wound began to bleed and later required sutures to close.

Ranzy went downstairs around 2:40 a.m. on Oct. 26 and his daughter then called police.

He told police that his wife “pulled an object on him” and that he swung one of his crutches at her in response.

Ranzy was convicted of terroristic threats in November 2005 and of misdemeanor domestic assault in July 2009.