Man Given Life Sentence For Murder With Sword
(Reading, PA) -- A Berks County man will spend the rest of his behind bars for killing someone with a sword over a drug debt. The sentence was handed down to William Smoot Wednesday for the death of Anthony DelCollo in 2021. Authorities said Smoot and another man lured DelCollo to a remote area in Lower Alsace Township where Smoot stabbed him twice with a sword. The other man, Joseph Lachina, was sentenced to at least a dozen years in prison.