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Farmer Ted Jul 31 2007 06:08 AM

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man has been charged with beating his mother to death with a barbell after losing his temper while watching a baseball game on television. Michael Anthony, 25, was watching the New York Mets lose a game on Saturday from his home in the borough of Queens when he began furiously banging on the walls, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement on Monday. His father Fred Fischman shouted at him to stop, but Anthony punched him in the face and threw him to the ground, according to the criminal charges. When Anthony's mother, Maria Fischman, 61, tried to intervene, prosecutors said he stabbed her once in the head with a knife before chasing her into a bedroom where he struck her several times with the 20 pound (9 kilogram) barbell. "It is difficult to imagine a crime more heinous than that of a son viciously attacking his parents and, in the process, fatally beating his mother to death," Brown said. Anthony has been remanded in custody and faces a maximum of life in prison if convicted.

Farmer Ted Jul 31 2007 06:16 AM

The snooze's version: A Queens man who allegedly bludgeoned his mother to death with a barbell blamed the Mets for setting off his murderous rage, authorities said yesterday. Michael Anthony, 26, was frustrated with the Mets' 6-5 loss to the Washington Nationals in the second game of Saturday night's doubleheader when he started arguing with his father, according to a statement he gave police. Anthony told cops after his arrest for murdering Maria Fischman, 61, that he "was watching the Mets game and became enraged." "We started fighting and my mother jumped in," he said, adding that she took a knife from the kitchen of the Fresh Meadows home. "I took the knife from her and it got stuck in her head." Fischman then fled to the bedroom, where Anthony said he thought she was going for a weapon in a dresser drawer. "I grabbed a weight from the top of the dresser, swung it, hit her and she fell to the floor," Anthony said. He was arraigned on murder, weapons and assault charges, ordered held without bail and faces up to 25 years in prison.

Edgy DC Jul 31 2007 06:26 AM

Hey Zeus..

metirish Jul 31 2007 06:51 AM

Neither version is good...what an asshole.