A man in Texas is accused of beating up and hospitalizing his elderly neighbor, allegedly using his own house key to mistakenly unlock and enter the home of the older man, whom he mistook for an intruder and attacked.

Eric Collazo was taken into custody on Monday and charged with one count of injury to an elderly person causing bodily harm, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

Deputies with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office at about 1:25 a.m. on March 25 responded to a call regarding a burglary in progress at a home in the 6000 block of Carriage Cape in San Antonio, Texas, according to an incident report obtained by The News Tribune. Upon arriving, however, deputies said they quickly realized that the home invasion appeared to be the result of an unlikely accident.

Deputies noted that the front door of the victim’s home had not been damaged in any way.

Deputies entered the home and found the victim — who is reportedly 79 or 80 years old — and said that he was limping, his clothing was torn, and food from a local Tex-Mex restaurant covered him and the floor of the apartment.

The victim told authorities that he was in the bathroom when he heard a knock on his door and then a tall man dressed in black — later identified as Collazo — entered the home and attacked him, pushing the victim into his bathtub and repeatedly striking him with a closed fist, San Antonio ABC affiliate KSAT reported.

The victim was transported to the hospital for treatment of his wounds, which reportedly included three broken ribs.

A 32-year-old man in Idaho will spend the rest of his life behind bars for breaking into his neighbor’s home and massacring all four members of the family — including two teenagers — on Father’s Day in order to “execute vengeance” after one of the teens allegedly exposed themselves to his wife and daughter.

First Judicial District Court Judge Barbara Duggan on Monday ordered Majorjon Kaylor to serve a sentence of life in a state correctional facility without the chance of parole for the 2023 quadruple murder of Kenneth Guardipee, 65; his daughter, Kenna Guardipee, 41; and her two children, Devin Smith, 18, and Aiken Smith, 16, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

Kaylor — who claimed he “snapped” after the 18-year-old victim allegedly exposed himself to Kaylor’s wife and young daughter — in December pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree murder over the violent rampage.

The sentencing hearing

During Monday’s hearing, Duggan upbraided Kaylor, calling his killing spree a “particular heinous event,” Spokane, Washington NBC affiliate KHQ reported.

Prior to the sentence being formally handed down, several of the victims’ family members were permitted to read impact statements.

“He killed an entire branch of our family tree,” David Silva, the grandfather of Aiken and Devin Smith, reportedly said. “Never any great grandchildren to watch grow up. I lost my best friend (Aiken Smith). He spent hundreds of hours volunteering throughout the community. An entire beautiful family taken by one person,”

Gerri Silva, the mother of Kenna Guardipee told the court that her family “lost three generations,” adding that she had not “seen, heard, or touched” her kids in the months since the murders.

Kenneth Guardipee’s brother, Joe Guardipee, read from a handwritten three-page statement, Boise, Idaho NBC affiliate KTVB reported.

“What a man you are, not only did you destroy my family, but yours as well,” he reportedly said. “You said you were protecting your children, let me ask you: Who’s protecting them now?”

A jail guard in Missouri is accused of harassing a neighbor, going as far as to bring up his own job and sic his dog on the man.

Bjorn J. Stotser, 40, is charged with two counts of second-degree harassment, fourth-degree assault, and resisting arrest, according to CBS St. Louis affiliate KMOV.

Cops in St. Charles, Missouri, claim that a neighbor at an apartment complex in the 800 block of Park Court said that he was cleaning out his van Tuesday. That’s when Stoster went up to him with a husky-type dog in tow.