An 87-year-old American shot a neighbor and went to confession
In the US state of Maryland, a small household disorder ended in murder, and an attempt to atone for sins brought the attacker to justice.
87-year-old Irwin Dickstein, who lives in the city of Frederick, came to the local church on Sunday morning. Instead of the usual prayer, he told the priest a shocking secret: the night before, he shot his 64-year-old housemate Michael Bushnell.
The reason for the reprisal was a banal situation. According to the pensioner, the neighbor decided to fix the socket in his room and de-energized the entire house. This action infuriated Dickstein. In a fit of anger, he grabbed a gun and fired several shots at his neighbor.
After hearing the confession, the minister of the church was faced with a difficult moral choice, but in the end he chose the law: he contacted the guards. The police officers who arrived at the scene found Bushnell's body in the bathroom. The murder weapon was soon found hidden in the trunk of the suspect's car in a special case.
At the moment, an 87-year-old man has been formally charged. Previously, he had no problems with the law and was considered a trustworthy citizen. Now he is waiting for a mandatory psychiatric examination, which should establish his sanity at the time of the crime, Lenta.ru reports.
