A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for fatally stabbing his mother after the two argued about the volume level of the video games he was playing.
Thomas Humphrey, 47, was sentenced on Tuesday after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and arson in the November death of Linda Tufts, 70, inside their Goffstown home.
“The brutality of this crime simply makes it too dangerous not to impose a very lengthy state prison sentence,” Judge William Delker said.
A prosecutor said Humphrey, who lived in the basement, stabbed Tufts multiple times then lit her body on fire. The prosecutor said the two had recently argued about how loudly he was playing video games on the PlayStation she had just given him for his birthday, WMUR-TV reported.
