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A Dispute Turns Deadly: Missouri Man Says He Shot His Neighbor in Self-Defense | Crime Alert 6AM 01.20.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard, hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 1: A Missouri man is charged with gunning down his neighbor
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  Speaker 1: in a violent confrontation that ended a lengthy history of harassment.
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey King, forty two, shot forty one year old Chris
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  Speaker 1: Wells thirteen times in the street in front of their homes,
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  Speaker 1: and then tried to blame the victim for hitting him first.
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  Speaker 1: When police arrived on the scene, they found King with
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  Speaker 1: his hands up and Wells lying on the ground. When
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  Speaker 1: asked what happened, he replied, he attacked me, punched me
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  Speaker 1: in the face, and I shot him dead. Two juvenile
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  Speaker 1: witnesses told police they watched from a car as King
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  Speaker 1: stood over the victim. They observed King shoot the victim
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  Speaker 1: in the back as the victim was lying face down
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. Wells's wife told police that King had
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  Speaker 1: a history of harassing neighbors that began before they moved
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  Speaker 1: into the neighborhood in twenty twenty three, and that the
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  Speaker 1: harassment had been documented by both the homeowners association and
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement. The incident that ended with Wells's death on
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  Speaker 1: Monday began when the wife was out walking her dog
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  Speaker 1: when she saw King arrow a blanket onto her front yard.
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  Speaker 1: She went inside and called her husband at work, and
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  Speaker 1: he came home to confront King. The two met in
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  Speaker 1: the street and a physical altercation began that ended with
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  Speaker 1: multiple gunshots. The wife did not see the shooting, but
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  Speaker 1: came out and saw Wells lying in the street. The
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  Speaker 1: affidavit concludes with the statement that King has been involved
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  Speaker 1: in a long running series of confrontations with his neighbors,
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  Speaker 1: which of overtime, only escalated in severity. Neighbors came to
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  Speaker 1: court on Wednesday when King pleaded not guilty to murder
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  Speaker 1: an armed criminal action. Courtney Brown said, quote, I'm sickened.
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  Speaker 1: I was just intently focused on him, looking at him,
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  Speaker 1: and just trying to think how someone could be so vain.
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  Speaker 1: She called Wells a very good guy. Quote, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: deserve to be the one to get gun down like that.
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  Speaker 1: I just hope that justice is served and he gets
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  Speaker 1: what he deserves. King was ordered held on a five
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  Speaker 1: million dollar bond, with a hearing set for next Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news. After this, a Tennessee church
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  Speaker 1: deacon was arrested Wednesday and charged with nine counts of
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  Speaker 1: a special aggravated sexual exploitation of a miner after his
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  Speaker 1: wife found photos and videos on his phone of a
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  Speaker 1: teenage babysitter using the toilet and shower and changing clothes
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  Speaker 1: in their bathroom. Christopher Thomas Collins, forty two, was removed
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  Speaker 1: from his position as a deacon at ABBA's House in
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  Speaker 1: Hixon after his arrest. And arrest affidavit says that Collins
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  Speaker 1: asked his wife to hold his phone while he was
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  Speaker 1: undergoing a medical procedure, and she looked at his phone
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  Speaker 1: for evidence of suspected infidelity. What she found were explicit
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  Speaker 1: images of their former babysitter, a fifteen year old family acquaintance.
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  Speaker 1: She said she first deleted the files, which appeared to
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  Speaker 1: have been recorded on cameras hidden in the homes downstairs bathroom,
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  Speaker 1: but then took screenshots from the phone's recently deleted folder.
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  Speaker 1: Then she sought guidance from her church ABBA's House, where
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  Speaker 1: staff members urged her to contact police. The woman told
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  Speaker 1: police she confronted Collins about the cameras, and he told
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  Speaker 1: her he had installed the cameras to look for rats,
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  Speaker 1: The arrest report reads. She further reported that her husband
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  Speaker 1: stated he had forgotten the camp were recording and claimed
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  Speaker 1: he hid the files from her to avoid jealousy. Police
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  Speaker 1: quickly took Collins into custody, fearing that evidence could be destroyed,
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  Speaker 1: and seized his cell phone. He later gave them permission
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  Speaker 1: to search the phone and his home. At the home,
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  Speaker 1: they found small cameras and an older cell phone, and
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  Speaker 1: obtained SD cards from them. One camera was near the
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  Speaker 1: water heater in the bathroom, focused on the shower and toilet.
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  Speaker 1: Collins told police that he knew about the cameras and
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  Speaker 1: used a mobile app to view images from them, saying
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  Speaker 1: that he had seen a nude image and kept it
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  Speaker 1: for a while before deleting it. Police conducted a forensic
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  Speaker 1: examination of Colin's phone and found nine video files recorded
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  Speaker 1: on hidden cameras in the bathroom. They showed a girl
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  Speaker 1: entering and exiting the shower, using the toilet, and changing clothes.
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  Speaker 1: They were all time stamped for last year. The affidavit
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  Speaker 1: said the videos were taken without the girl's knowledge and
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  Speaker 1: in a place she had a reasonable expectation of privacy.
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  Speaker 1: A spokesperson for ABBA's House said Collins lost his deacon
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  Speaker 1: title when he was arrested. The church released a statement
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  Speaker 1: through the course of a marriage counseling session, Chris Collins's
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  Speaker 1: wife revealed that she had found videos on her husband's
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  Speaker 1: phone of a miner. We immediately reported it to the
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  Speaker 1: police and they are handling the situation. We are caring
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  Speaker 1: for his wife and kids during this tragic time. Chris
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  Speaker 1: Collins had been a member of the church for four
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  Speaker 1: years and served as a deacon. He has been removed
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  Speaker 1: from that role. Collins is being held on a four
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars bond. A US Bureau of
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  Speaker 1: Land Management officer has been charged with second degree murder
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  Speaker 1: after a drunken brawl at a Wyoming bar last week
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  Speaker 1: left a man dead. Lander Police did not name the
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  Speaker 1: man charged with second degree murder. Two other men were
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  Speaker 1: charged with being an accessory before the murder or the
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  Speaker 1: victim who died in the January ninth fight. However, Cowboy
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  Speaker 1: State Daily identifies the killer as Richard Dake Dollard and
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  Speaker 1: the victim as Evan Denevan. The two other men arrested
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  Speaker 1: were Dollard's brother, fifty four year old Justin Dollard, and
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  Speaker 1: his nephew, twenty one year old Jesse Dollard. Charging documents
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  Speaker 1: say the brawl took place at the Maverick restaurant lounge,
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  Speaker 1: and that surveillance footag showed upset Jesse Dollard pointing to
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  Speaker 1: Denivan just before his relatives launched an attack on him.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Dollard claimed that Denavan yelled he would kick his
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  Speaker 1: and took off his hat and glasses to fight. He
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  Speaker 1: claimed Denivan hit him first and that at one point
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  Speaker 1: his brother pulled Denovan back to de escalate the situation.
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Dollard told police that his father, Justin Dollard, gets
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  Speaker 1: hot headed and went after it, and that Richard Dollard
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  Speaker 1: broke up the fight because he is trained in de escalation,
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  Speaker 1: but the surveillance video showed around eight to ten people
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  Speaker 1: fighting when Richard Dollard's version of de escalation, putting Denivan
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  Speaker 1: in a rear naked chokehold began. Dollard held Denivan in
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  Speaker 1: the chokehold for about thirty seconds before letting him fall
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  Speaker 1: to the floor limp. Justin Dollard kicked him after he
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  Speaker 1: fell to the floor. The person who called nine one
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  Speaker 1: one reported that Denivan was not breathing and was all purple.
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  Speaker 1: Witnesses attempted to revive him until police arrived and took over,
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  Speaker 1: but none were able to resuscitate him. For the latest
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  Speaker 1: this crime Alert, I'm Sydney sumnerk