A Butler County judge on Tuesday again delayed the sentencing of a man found guilty of attacking his Penn Township neighbor in 2017 as questions of his mental health remained unresolved.

Ronald A. Postreich, 72, pleaded no contest in June to two charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and defiant trespass after being charged with attacking his neighbor in October 2017 with a hatchet and stun gun while disguised in a Halloween mask. In September, Judge William Shaffer rescheduled Postreich's sentencing for December, and ordered the man to undergo a psychiatric evaluation by then. On Tuesday, with no evaluation complete, Shaffer made the same decision at the request of prosecutors and the defense.

Postreich's lawyer, Jerry Russo, requested the December sentencing date to be rescheduled. But in the meantime, Postreich didn't get a mental health evaluation. Instead, he moved to Gibsonia and ended up with a new case in Allegheny County, in which he faces a number of charges that include aggravated assault and assault of law enforcement. According to Allegheny County police, Postreich attacked his wife and police on Dec. 19.

When Postreich pleaded no contest in his Butler case, he had to move out of his Morgan Road residence, bringing him to Gibsonia during his pretrial release. The plea deal called for Postreich to make every effort to sell his Morgan Road house.

But on Tuesday, a lawyer for the victim's family, Thomas May, made a statement on the record noting that Postreich had not attempted to sell the place.

“The crime was a wantonful, willful act of defiance as egregious as you could get,” May said, adding that since the plea deal there has been no demonstration of remorse.

“He hasn't posted his residence for sale as agreed,” May said. “We have the perpetrator of this awful crime living next door to the victim.”

He asked Shaffer to consider the case seriously, and Shaffer assured him he would.

The victim, Russell Callenberg, was present in court, but he did not say anything.

During a hearing in 2017, Callenberg recounted the attack that occurred Oct. 18, 2017. He was mowing the grass on a lawn-tractor when suddenly he was knocked to the ground. Callenberg's glasses came off, but when he looked up he was able to see a man in a Halloween-style mask holding a rusty hatchet in one hand and a stun gun in the other.

Postreich will be formally arraigned March 24 in his Allegheny County case, and in the meantime he is being held in that county's jail on a $50,000 bond.