US: Man kills neighbour by stabbing in chest after feud over loud snoring

In a shocking incident in US’s Pennsylvania, a loud-snoring man allegedly murdered his neighbour with whom he had a long-running conflict over the midnight noise of snoring, which the victim claimed he could hear through the walls connecting their homes. According to the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, Christopher James Casey, 55, was arrested on 18th January after fatally stabbing 62-year-old Robert Wallace on the 15th January evening during an argument over snoring. He pulled out a screen and unlocked a window on Casey’s porch before the two started screaming at each other over loud snoring by Casey. The accused told investigators at the hospital that Wallace was not threatening him when he stabbed him in the doorway, but that the two had been having “personal issues” over the preceding 18 months, leading to multiple police calls over Wallace’s snoring complaints. According to the affidavit, after about 20 minutes of conversing through the window, Wallace seemed to cool down and wanted to shake hands, offering to help pay for nasal surgery to ease Casey’s snoring.