Wednesday, 5 p.m.:
Expanded details are emerging about a fatal dispute between neighbors in Walled Lake. Detroit News reporter Serena Maria Daniels visited the scene Wednesday afternoon.
One person is dead and another in custody after a shooting Tuesday night in a dispute between neighbors over a loose dog. . . .
According to police, a 28-year-old man shot his 45-year-old neighbor after the older man confronted the younger man about the suspect’s dog getting loose and going into the victim’s yard.
The victim, later identified by family as Edwin Criswell, died after being taken to a local hospital.
Daniels quotes Deputy Chief Bruce Kirby as saying an outdoor conflict "just escalated.”
There have been a number of complaints made to animal control against the suspect’s dogs, Kirby said.
The reporter also spoke with the victim's brother, Joseph Criswell of White Lake, as he cleaned blood from a front step. “I was hoping we would spend Christmas together,” the 44-year-old said.
Wednesday, 9:35 a.m.
Tempers flared in Walled Lake over a common source of suburban friction: Pet dogs in a neighbor's yard.
Tuesday night's shooting was in the 1100 block of Sigma Road in Walled Lake.
This time, the dispute escalated into a fatal shooting.
Malcolm Maddox airs still-sketchy information at WXYZ:
Apparently, the fight started between two neighbors, after an altercation over their dogs around 9:30 Tuesday night.
Police say the confrontation started in front of the homes, and ended with a 28-year-old Marine veteran shooting his 45-year-old neighbor to death.
WDIV's account says both unleashed dogs belong to the suspect, who lives in in the 1100 block of Sigma Road.
