Charges: Man kills mom in Twin Cities home, next day commits sex assault

A 36-year-old man killed his mother in her Prior Lake home one day last week, then broke into a home in a nearby suburb the next day and sexually assaulted a woman he did not know, according to charges filed Monday.

Aaron Matthew Schlossin was charged Monday in Scott County District Court with second-degree murder in connection with the killing Thursday of 67-year-old Diana L. Kaiser at her house in the 4500 block of Colorado Street SE., where the son also lives.

In Dakota County District Court, Schlossin was charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct and first-degree burglary stemming from his assault Friday of a woman in Burnsville.

Schlossin was booked into the Dakota County jail Friday night and is scheduled to appear in court in Hastings on May 8. A message was left with his attorney seeking a response to the allegations.

Court records in Minnesota show petty misdemeanor convictions for drug possession and traffic violations.

According to the criminal complaints:

Police were sent to Kaiser’s home Sunday on a welfare check requested by a neighbor who said he had not seen her since Thursday, the same day he saw Schlossin come out of the home appearing high after doing a “whippit,” a term for inhaling nitrous oxide. Schlossin soon drove away.

Officers walked around the home’s exterior, looked through a window and saw blood in several locations in a bedroom. They also saw a human leg sticking out from a pile of blankets on the floor.

Police went into the bedroom and found Kaiser next to the bed beneath the blankets; she appeared to have been dead for a number of days. They also saw “significant trauma to her head and face area,” the Scott County complaint read.

A police detective saw a broken lamp on Kaiser’s body and an injury consistent with her being struck by the item. Also on her body were bloodied jeans, with Schlossin’s wallet and identification in a pocket.

A neighbor told police that she heard a commotion coming from Kaiser’s home Thursday around midnight that included a male yelling and a female screaming. The neighbor said she knew Kaiser’s son lived at the home.

The neighbor said that what she heard “‘sounded like someone was being murdered,’” the complaint noted.

One day after Kaiser’s killing, Schlossin opened the sliding door of a home in Burnsville, pinned a woman against the refrigerator and groped her, according to the charges.

As Schlossin tried to reach beneath her clothing, the woman hit the stranger with a bag of frozen meat and punched him in the face. Schlossin fled the home.

Moments later, a 911 caller said she saw a man with a bloodied face who was stumbling. She said the man approached her, asked for a ride and said he couldn’t recall how he had been injured.

Officers caught up to the man, identified him as Schlossin and arrested him.