Calif. man, 83, convicted of killing roommate, 94
AP
(AP) LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. - An 83-year-old man has been convicted in the beating death of his 94-year-old roommate at a California health care facility, an attack prosecutors say was triggered by the older man's singing.
A district attorney's statement says William Leo McDougall was convicted Friday in Orange County Superior Court.
McDougall and Manh Van Nguyen were both recovering from hip surgery at Palm Terrace Healthcare Center in Laguna Woods on Oct. 1, 2010.
Prosecutors say McDougall got mad because Nguyen was singing in Vietnamese, so he took a wooden rod from the closet and hit his roommate repeatedly in the head.
A nurse stopped the attack, but Nguyen later died due to blunt force trauma.
McDougall will be sentenced Oct. 26.
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My sympathies to the Manh Van Nguyen family.
I bet McDougall was frustrated by hours of ceaseless noise and no one in the facility even tried to stop the singing.
At age 83, I probably would've done the same thing...
He has one.
He just needs a better one.
He forgets that most crimes in general are based on hate, in one form or another.
I wonder what _bull there hates...