Serial Paint Huffer Kills 73-Year Old Man

From WYFF4.com in Boiling Springs, South Carolina:

A 50 year-old man who has been “convicted nearly two dozen times of huffing paint” was sentenced earlier this month for killing a 73-year old man.

The 73-year old man and his wife had befriended the 50 year-old male months ago, offering him food and shelter. However, one night, the man came home in a delusional state and begin cursing in a telephone conversation. When the homeowner questioned him about his language, the man “knocked him to the floor and bent his legs back over his head and crushed him with his weight.” The man suffered a broken neck and died from his injury two weeks later.

The man’s wife found her husband when she came home and called 911. The man was still conscious and able to identify his attacker. The 50 year-old was arrested and will be required to “serve more than 25 years of his prison sentence before he is eligible for release.”