--- ---  # Man Accused of Trying to Kill Roommate After She Ate Chips Ahoy Cookies for Breakfast by [Bijan Stephen](https://time.com/author/bijan-stephen/) ## Bijan Stephen Aug 4, 2014 1:29 PM UTC  Daniel Acker/Bloomberg – Getty Images by [Bijan Stephen](https://time.com/author/bijan-stephen/) ## Bijan Stephen Aug 4, 2014 1:29 PM UTC A 49-year-old Illinois woman said that her 23-year-old male roommate tried to kill her last week after she ate three Chips Ahoy cookies for breakfast sending him into a rage, the [Herald-Review](http://herald-review.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-accused-of-trying-kill-woman-after-she-ate-cookies/article%5F69051c72-e75f-5d80-a9b7-d67fd2845c1c.html) of Central Illinois reports. The man, Allen Hall, was charged by police with attempted murder and aggravated domestic battery. The [Herald-Review](http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/08/illinois%5Fman%5Fangered%5Fby%5F3%5Fmiss.html) reports the victim was getting dressed in the bathroom when Hall became upset. She [told](http://herald-review.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-accused-of-trying-kill-woman-after-she-ate-cookies/article%5F69051c72-e75f-5d80-a9b7-d67fd2845c1c.html) police that she thought he was kidding when he said he was going to kill her, so she said, “If you are going to kill me then go ahead.” Apparently Hall wasn’t kidding; he allegedly threw his roommate into their tub and began to choke her. The roommates were separated after the woman’s husband and the landlord found them. Man Tries to Kill Roommate Over Chips Ahoy Cookies ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3076423/man-accused-of-trying-to-kill-roommate-after-she-ate-chips-ahoy-cookies-for-breakfast/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3076423/man-accused-of-trying-to-kill-roommate-after-she-ate-chips-ahoy-cookies-for-breakfast/"},"headline":"Man Accused of Trying to Kill Roommate After She Ate Chips Ahoy Cookies for Breakfast","datePublished":"2014-08-04T13:29:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:08.891Z","description":"Cookie monster","url":"https://time.com/3076423/man-accused-of-trying-to-kill-roommate-after-she-ate-chips-ahoy-cookies-for-breakfast/","keywords":["Newsfeed","nation"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbcecc0ab31764353/69869e4036176050dd90d519/chips-ahoy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Bijan Stephen","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/bijan-stephen/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbcecc0ab31764353/69869e4036176050dd90d519/chips-ahoy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"chips-ahoy","caption":"","creditText":"Daniel Acker/Bloomberg – Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3076423/man-accused-of-trying-to-kill-roommate-after-she-ate-chips-ahoy-cookies-for-breakfast/","name":"Man Accused of Trying to Kill Roommate After She Ate Chips Ahoy Cookies for Breakfast"}}]}] ```