LOUISIANA MAN HELD IN SHOOTING OF HIS NEIGHBORS OVER YARDWORK.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A man who had a running feud feud, formalized private warfare, especially between family groups. The blood feud (see vendetta) is characteristic of those societies in which central government either has not arisen or has decayed. with his neighbors over yardwork put down his Bible and picked up his gun, fatally shooting a woman as she swept her sidewalk A Microsoft service that was launched in 1997 to provide online arts and entertainment guides on the Web for major cities worldwide. In 1999, Microsoft sold Sidewalk to Ticketmaster, which continued to provide guides, ticketing and other information to the MSN network. and injuring her husband as he mowed, police said. Melvin Hitchens, 66, had been sitting on his front porch reading the Bible on Saturday before he went inside, fetched his .45-caliber handgun and shot the couple, police said. Darryl Jett was shot in the chest as he mowed his lawn about 9 a.m. Donna Jett was sweeping crape myrtle crape myrtle: see loosestrife. crape myrtle Shrub (Lagerstroemia indica) of the loosestrife family, native to China and other tropical and subtropical countries and widely grown in warm regions for its flowers. blossoms from the sidewalk and saw the shooting, yelling ``You're crazy'' at the gunman, witnesses said. Police said she and Hitchens sparred, then he fired several rounds into her. A neighbor, Frances Rhyans, said Hitchens reloaded his gun and shot Donna Jett again after she was already lying on the ground. Daryl Hubbart, Hitchens' nephew, said the Jetts and his uncle had a continuing dispute about their yards, and said the Jetts often had threatened his uncle. Nearby residents agreed that the neighbors had fought over the yards and the cleanliness Cleanliness See also Orderliness. Cleverness (See CUNNING.) Berchta unkempt herself, demands cleanliness from others, especially children. [Ger. Folklore: Leach, 137] cat continually “washes” itself. of the gutters. |
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