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Missouri Man Shoots Neighbor 13 Times, Claims He Hit Him First | Crime Alert 6AM 01.16.26 · 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 specially 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 bath room. Christopher Thomas Collins, forty two, was
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  Speaker 1: removed from his position as a deacon at ABBA's House
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  Speaker 1: in Hickson after his arrest. And arrest affidavit says that
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  Speaker 1: Collins asked his wife to hold his phone while he
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  Speaker 1: was undergoing a medical procedure, and she looked at his
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  Speaker 1: phone for evidence of suspected infidelity. What she found were
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  Speaker 1: explicit images of their former babysitter, a fifteen year old
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  Speaker 1: family acquaintance. She said she first deleted the files, which
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  Speaker 1: appeared to have been recorded on cameras hidden in the
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  Speaker 1: homes downstairs bathroom, but then took screenshots from the phone's
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  Speaker 1: recently deleted folder. Then she sought guidance from her church
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  Speaker 1: ABBA's House, where staff members urged her to contact police.
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  Speaker 1: The woman told police she confronted Collins about the cameras,
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  Speaker 1: and he told her he had installed the cameras to
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  Speaker 1: look for rats. The arrest report reads. She further reported
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  Speaker 1: that her husband stated he had forgotten the case cameras
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  Speaker 1: were recording, and claimed he hid the files from her
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  Speaker 1: to avoid jealousy. Police quickly took Collins into custody, fearing
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  Speaker 1: that evidence could be destroyed, and seized his cell phone.
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  Speaker 1: He later gave them permission to search the phone and
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  Speaker 1: his home. At the home, they found small cameras and
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  Speaker 1: an older cell phone, and obtained SD cards from them.
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  Speaker 1: One camera was near the water heater in the bathroom,
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  Speaker 1: focused on the shower and toilet. Collins told police that
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  Speaker 1: he knew about the cameras and used a mobile app
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  Speaker 1: to view images from them, saying that he had seen
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  Speaker 1: a nude image and kept it for a while before
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  Speaker 1: deleting it. Police conducted a forensic examination of Colin's phone
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  Speaker 1: and found nine video files recorded on hidden cameras in
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom. They showed a girl entering and exiting the shower,
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  Speaker 1: using the toilet, and changing clothes. They were all time
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  Speaker 1: stamped for last year. The affidavit said the videos were
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  Speaker 1: taken without the girl's knowledge and in a place she
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  Speaker 1: had a reasonable expectation of privacy. A spokesperson for ABBA's
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  Speaker 1: House said Collins lost his deacon title when he was arrested.
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  Speaker 1: The church released a statement. Through the course of a
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  Speaker 1: marriage counseling session, Chris Collins's wife revealed that she had
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  Speaker 1: found videos on her husband's phone of a miner. We
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  Speaker 1: immediately reported it to the police and they are handling
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  Speaker 1: the situation. We are caring for his wife and kids
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  Speaker 1: during this tragic time. Chris Collins had been a member
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  Speaker 1: of the church for four years and served as a deacon.
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  Speaker 1: He has been removed from that role. Collins is being
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  Speaker 1: held on a four hundred and fifty thousand dollars bond.
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  Speaker 1: A US Bureau of Land Management officer has been charged
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  Speaker 1: with second degree murder after a drunken brawl at a
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  Speaker 1: Wyoming bar last week left a man dead. Lander Police
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  Speaker 1: did not name the man charged with second degree murder.
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  Speaker 1: Two other men were charged with being an accessory before
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  Speaker 1: the murder or the victim who died in the January
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  Speaker 1: ninth fight. However, Cowboy State Daily identifies the killer as
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  Speaker 1: Richard Dake Dollard and the victim as Evan Denevan. The
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  Speaker 1: two other men arrested were Dollard's brother, fifty four year
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  Speaker 1: old Justin Dollard, and his nephew, twenty one year old
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Dollard. Charging documents say the brawl took place at
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  Speaker 1: the Maverick Restaurant lounge, and that surveillance footage showed an
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  Speaker 1: upset Jesse Dollard pointing to Denivan just before his relatives
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  Speaker 1: launched an attack on him. Justin Dollard claimed that Denavan
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  Speaker 1: yelled he would kick his eyes and took off his
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  Speaker 1: hat and glasses to fight. He claimed Denivan hit him
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  Speaker 1: first and that at one point his brother pulled Denovan
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  Speaker 1: back to de escalate the situation. Jesse Dollard told police
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  Speaker 1: that his father, Justin Dollard, gets hot headed and went
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  Speaker 1: after it, and that Richard Dollard broke up the fight
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  Speaker 1: because he is trained in de escalation, but the surveillance
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  Speaker 1: video showed around eight to ten people fighting when Richard
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  Speaker 1: Dollard's version of de escalation, putting Denivan in a rear
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  Speaker 1: naked chokehold began. Dollard held Denivan in the chokehold for
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  Speaker 1: about thirty seconds before letting him fall to the floor limp.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Dollard kicked him after he fell to the floor.
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  Speaker 1: The person who called nine one one reported that Denivan
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  Speaker 1: was not breathing and was all purple witnesses attempted to
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  Speaker 1: revive him until police arrived and took over, but none
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  Speaker 1: were able to resuscitate him. For the latest crime and
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sydney sumnerk