The group of families living in a cluster of houses on Smith Drive had been friends.

Their kids played together.

Parents saw each other at the school bus stop in the mornings and socialized in the evenings.

But in early August of 2012, a dispute ignited between the families.

It began when a birthday gift left on a porch went missing.

When one family realized they had never received it, they suspected one of the kids who lived

down the street had snatched it.

That suspicion turned into an accusation.

The accusation prompted a call to the police, and that sparked a feud that led to the vulgar

taunting of a preteen girl, non-stop shouting, petty complaints, violent threats, and attempts

by both sides to have the judicial system intervene.

Then things turned deadly.

Early in the hours of September 3rd, 2012, less than a month since the dispute had begun.

Two men who had been laughing at a party minutes before laid dead in front of their homes,

and a third man lay bleeding, shot 11 times.

The gunmen stood in front of his home and waited for police to come for him while his wife

and children slept inside his house.

He was a vigilante.

He was going to take the law into his own hands, and he was going to dispense the justice that

he thought was appropriate to these people that he considered to be prey.

William Woodward, who goes by Billy, was charged with capital murder for the shooting deaths

of two of his neighbors, and attempted murder for the injury of a third man who survived

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