April 27, 2023
A man in unincorporated Antioch in Illinois was charged on Tuesday with shooting and killing his neighbor over a noisy leaf blower earlier this month. 59-year-old William Martys was working in his yard with a leaf blower when he was shot in the head and killed during an argument with his neighbor, 79-year-old Ettore Lacchei, who the Lake County Sheriff's Office said had "various perceived grievances" with Martys.
On the one hand, murder is bad.
On the other hand, I have felt homicidal urges about our neighbor running their goddamn leaf blower at 6am on my day off. That's reactionary and unneighborly of me, I know.