An O.C. man killed his neighbor over his smoking habit. Now he'll spend 50 years to life in prison

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In an Orange County apartment complex, Sidney Bararchi Clarke clashed with his neighbor over his smoking habit — until prosecutors say it drove Clarke to kill him. Now he’ll spend 50 years to life in prison.

A Superior Court jury last month convicted Clarke, 31, of murder and a sentencing enhancement for fatally shooting 21-year-old Logan Kahmar, who lived below him in the Raintree Apartments in Brea.

Kahmar, a young father who lived with his girlfriend and infant daughter, had a regular habit of sitting on his balcony to smoke cigarettes and marijuana. It was a routine that prosecutors say slowly grated on Clarke, eventually to the point that his “anger consumed him,” prosecutors