Crime

Guardian - A man from suburban Philadelphia stabbed his neighbor to death after the killer’s loud snoring led the pair to argue violently, according to authorities.Christopher Casey, 56, was recently handed a relatively short prison sentence after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the 14 January death of 62-year-old Robert Wallace. Casey also pleaded guilty to possessing an instrument of crime to close the book on a case with a motive that has not been too commonly seen in the US justice system.

The two men lived next to each other, sharing a common wall in a duplex home in Upper Morland, Pennsylvania. Wallace ultimately became so annoyed at how loudly and often Casey would snore that he pushed in his neighbor’s first-floor window and threatened to kill him, local prosecutors had previously said in a statement. Citing police records, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Wallace eventually calmed down and offered to pay for a surgery that would correct Casey’s snoring. But Casey allegedly did not believe Wallace’s offer of assistance was genuine. He stabbed Wallace several times in the chest with a large, military-style knife before calling police to the home.