Once, [neighbor Natalie Abdulhawa] said she witnessed him having an altercation with a woman who burst through his gate and punched him. She said she did not know who the woman was, but heard screams and ran outside to see what was going on.

He offered her painkillers after she had knee surgery, she said, which she also declined. And when she told him she played soccer, she said he told her that his father was a professional soccer player and that Hupperterz himself used to play for the Temple men’s soccer team. Abdulhawa said she searched online for any evidence that he had played on the Temple team, and suspected it was a lie.

… According to court records, Hupperterz pleaded guilty in 2013 to theft from a motor vehicle and in 2011 to possession of drug paraphernalia. Hupperterz also popped up on the radar of police in Scranton in 2013, when he allegedly broke into a home and stole electronics, credit cards, laundry detergent, and a half keg of beer.