A Maine landlord has admitted killing two tenants in 2012 in a dispute over parking spots after a snowstorm.
Seventy-seven-year-old James Pak had originally planned to use an insanity defense, but he instead pleaded guilty Wednesday in Alfred court to murder.
Police visited the apartment shortly before the December 2012 shooting because 19-year-old tenant Derrick Thompson complained that Pak had been yelling at him and threatening him. An affidavit says the officers deemed the argument a civil matter and left.
Court documents indicate Pak waited for police to leave before fatally shooting Thompson and his girlfriend, 18-year-old Alivia Welch. Thompson’s mother, Susan Johnson, was shot in the back and arm but survived by playing dead.
Johnson says she wishes Pak had pleaded guilty three years ago.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
You have to be a Landlord to understand the rage tenants can incite. I think he should plead temporary insanity. Some people can be driven over the edge and I think if people were more civil to each other, with this in mind, we wouldn’t have these kind of things.
Landlords will drive you nuts also, with all their rules and who can live there and who can’t and you have to make three times the rent.. He/she can’t stay here because they have been to prison, I get so tired of it. They paid their time and need a place to live. In this overbearing, liberal society you would think they would know people need a home. Anyone at any time can commit a crime, just like that landlord, you don’t need to be a felon to do that or break the law!
Your comments are asinine… If you have rage issues you shouldn’t be a landlord or be near people at all for that matter. I don’t give a crap what they say/do, you don’t kill them over it.