A Philadelphia man has pleaded guilty to a stabbing and kill your neighbor after the neighbor threatened him for his loud snoring.
Christopher Casey56, of Upper Morland, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court on Aug. 7 to 11.5 to 23 months in county jail followed by three years of probation after pleading guilty to charges of manslaughter and possession of an instrument of crime, according to court documents. .
Casey was originally charged with third-degree murder in the Jan. 14 death of 62-year-old Robert Wallace, who lived next door in a duplex and with whom he shared a common wall.
Christopher James, the man accused of fatally stabbing his neighbor during a ‘snoring’ fight, has been jailed for almost a year. (Montgomery County District Attorney)
Prosecutors said Casey stabbed Wallace after the other man pushed in his first-floor window and threatened to kill Casey for his snoring.
Relatives of the victim said he had been unable to sleep because of the noise and that his fatigue had affected his life and ability to work.
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Casey apologized to Wallace’s family in court, calling the killing “unfortunate.”
Casey’s attorney said his client’s life had been threatened several times.
“He was terrified of this guy and he thought he had no choice,” said defense attorney James Lyons.
He called his client “a really good man who was not equipped to deal with this kind of sustained abuse and threats.”
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Casey will be released after 8.5 months in prison and has just one month left behind bars, per reports from Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.