Teen Sentenced In Neighbor’s Death

{Charleston, West Virginia}…Thomas Mallo appeared in Kanawha County Circuit Court Friday to ask for a reduced sentence after he was convicted of fatally stabbing his neighbor, 80 year old Phyllis Jean Phares, in 2009. Mallo will begin serving a 40-year prison sentence. Mallo has been held at the Industrial Home for Youth in Salem since he pleaded guilty in 2010 to second-degree murder. Mallo was 14 years old at the time of Phares' death.