A Brea man who gunned down a neighbor whom he was angry at for smoking too much on an outdoor apartment patio was sentenced Thursday, Dec. 11 to 50 years to life in prison.

Sidney Bararchie Clarke, 31, was convicted earlier this year of first-degree murder with a sentencing enhancement for the use of the a firearm for the Aug. 30, 2023 slaying of 21-year-old Logan Kahmar at the Raintree Apartments in the 600 block of N. Tamarack Avenue.

Clarke lived in the apartment unit above Kahmar, and for months had been angry at Kahmar’s habit of sitting on his lower-level balcony and smoking marijuana and cigarettes. A prosecutor wrote in a sentencing brief that Clarke “slowly burned with anger” toward Kahmar and his smoking and “this anger consumed him.”

On the evening of the shooting, Clarke gra

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