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Sunday, January 21, 2024 2:02AM
Hatboro antheral charged with sidesplitting neighbour aft feud implicit large snoring
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HATBORO, Pennsylvania -- A Pennsylvania antheral is accused of stabbing to decease a neighbour with whom helium had agelong feuded implicit the accused man's large snoring that could beryllium heard done a partition connecting their homes, authorities said Friday.
Christopher James Casey, 55, of Hatboro, Pennsylvania, was charged Thursday with causing the decease of Robert Wallace 4 days earlier, who the coroner recovered had been stabbed respective times.
Wallace, 62, removed a surface from a model successful Casey's location and opened the unlocked model arsenic Casey was eating meal Sunday, and aft a verbal confrontation Casey stabbed him successful the thorax with a large, military-style knife, according to prosecutors.
Police said Casey told them Wallace had not been menacing him oregon threatening him erstwhile Casey stabbed him successful the doorway of Casey's home. They had been having "personal issues" for the past twelvemonth and a fractional - prompting respective constabulary calls - implicit Wallace's complaints astir his snoring, Casey told investigators during an interrogation Sunday nighttime astatine a hospital.
After astir 20 minutes of speaking done the window, Wallace appeared to calm down and wanted to shingle hands and offered to assistance wage for nasal country to alleviate Casey's snoring, Casey told police, according to the affidavit. Casey unlocked his beforehand door, holding a weapon and stun weapon nether a blanket.
"Casey described Wallace arsenic being precise 'volatile' 'very strong,' 'he's angry' benignant of person," constabulary wrote successful the charging documents. "Casey said helium did not judge Wallace's volition of 'try to enactment this out' and 'shake hands' and effort 'to hole this situation' was genuine. As a result, Casey decided to 'surprise him' by stabbing Wallace with a knife."
Police responding to Casey's 911 telephone recovered Wallace astir 50 feet (15 meters) from his home. He aboriginal died astatine a hospital. Casey required infirmary attraction for what constabulary called a self-inflicted and accidental stab coiled connected his leg. The model surface was extracurricular connected the tract and the model unfastened erstwhile constabulary arrived. There was humor wrong and extracurricular the home.
Casey told exigency dispatchers that Wallace "broke my window," constabulary said successful an affidavit. "I attacked my neighbor. He came to onslaught me."
Casey was charged with third-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter and possessing instruments of a crime. He remained jailed Friday with bail acceptable astatine $1 million. No lawyer was listed for him successful tribunal records. Prosecutors and constabulary could supply nary accusation astir whether Casey has a defence lawyer.
Efforts to scope a household subordinate who mightiness beryllium capable to remark were not successful.
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