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A 70-year-old Texas man shot his neighbor useless on Friday throughout an ongoing dispute a couple of canine operating free within the neighborhood after which saved on doing yard work, authorities mentioned.
Eric Lee Elliott was working in his yard on County Road 2683 round 2:45 p.m. when a canine belonging to his neighbor, 60-year-old William Duncan Womack, acquired free and bumped into the yard, KHOU-TV reported, citing the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office.
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Elliot noticed Womack’s stepdaughter and demanded that she hold the canine out of his yard or else he’d kill it, deputies mentioned.

Eric Lee Elliott, 70, was charged with homicide after authorities in Texas say he shot his neighbor on Friday throughout an ongoing dispute over a canine operating free within the neighborhood.
(Liberty County Sheriff’s Office)
The stepdaughter advised Womack concerning the risk, in line 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 happened,” the report mentioned
First responders discovered Womack mendacity on the street. He was airlifted to a hospital, the place he was pronounced useless.
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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 line with on-line jail data.