Texas man fatally shoots neighbor after dispute over loose dog, continues doing yardwork: deputies

A 70-year-old Texas man shot his neighbor lifeless on Friday throughout an ongoing dispute a couple of canine working free within the neighborhood after which saved on doing yard work, authorities mentioned.

Eric Lee Elliott was working in his yard on County Highway 2683 round 2:45 p.m. when a canine belonging to his neighbor, 60-year-old William Duncan Womack, bought free and bumped into the yard, KHOU-TV reported, citing the Liberty County Sheriff’s Workplace.

GEORGIA GUN SHOP TRIPLE MURDER SUSPECT WAS EX-CUSTOMER; STOLEN WEAPONS RECOVERED

Elliot noticed Womack’s stepdaughter and demanded that she hold the canine out of his yard or else he’d kill it, deputies mentioned.

The stepdaughter instructed Womack in regards to the menace, in keeping with investigators, and he went to talk with Elliott out on the street. When the 2 males met, Elliott allegedly kicked Womack within the leg, pulled out a .45-caliber handgun from his waistband and shot Womack as soon as within the abdomen.

Elliott put the gun in his truck earlier than returning to his yard work “as if nothing ever occurred,” the report mentioned

First responders discovered Womack mendacity on the street. He was airlifted to a hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless.

Elliott was arrested on the scene and booked into the Liberty County Jail on a cost of homicide.

He was being held on $1 million bond, in keeping with on-line jail data.