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I'm Sidney Sumner. A Missouri man is charged with gunning down his neighbor in a violent confrontation

that ended a lengthy history of harassment. Jeffrey King, 42, shot 41-year-old Chris Wells

13 times in the street in front of their homes,

and then tried to blame the victim for hitting him first. When police arrived on the scene,

they found King with his hands up and Wells lying on the ground. When asked what happened, he

replied, he attacked me, punched me in the face, and I shot him dead. Two juvenile witnesses told police they watched

from a car as King stood over the victim. They observed King shoot the victim in the back as the

victim was lying face down on the ground. Well's wife told police that King had a history of harassing

neighbors that began before they moved into the neighborhood in 2023 and that the harassment

had been

documented by both the Homeowners Association and law enforcement. The incident that ended with

Wells' death on Monday began when the wife was out walking her dog when she saw King throw a blanket

onto her front yard. She went inside and called her husband at work, and he came home to confront

King. The two met in the street, and a physical altercation began that ended with multiple gunshots.

The wife did not see the shooting, but came out and saw Wells lying in the street.

The affidavit concludes with the statement that King has been involved in a long-running series

of confrontations with his neighbors, which of over time only escalated

in severity. Neighbors came to court on Wednesday when King pleaded not guilty to murder

in armed criminal action. Courtney Brown said, quote, I'm sickened. I was just intently focused on

him, looking at him and just trying to think how someone could be so vain. She called Wells

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