Washington, April 24: An argument over the late hour of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ triple-overtime playoff loss reportedly led a Pennsylvania man to fatally beat his wife with a hammer and stab her before setting the house on fire.
The accused man, Robert Abrams, 40, is alleged to have hit his wife Jeanette, 44, in the head with a hammer at least 10 times and then set fire to his Locust Lane home in South Fayette about 3am on Friday (local time) in a bid to cover up the crime, according to The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Mr Abrams, who is being treated for burns to his hands, has been charged with homicide, arson and abuse of a corpse.
Police said the Abramses argued late on Thursday because he was still awake watching the Penguins-Senators game, which Ottawa won shortly before midnight with a goal in the third sudden-death overtime, sending the opening-round series to a sixth game.
The fight then moved on to “financial matters and his unemployment”, police told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, before he allegedly struck his wife and stabbed her in the chest four
—Agencies