Long running neighbor dispute ends in murder-suicide www.privateofficer.com

 

 

FRESNO, Calif. March 25 2012 — A long-running dispute over a Fresno’s man dog has turned fatal. Police say a neighbor who was irate about the animal getting into his yard shot and killed the dog’s owner before turning the gun on himself as officers moved in to arrest him.

The Fresno Bee reports (http://bit.ly/GLERTW ) that 59-year-old Frank Cardoza was shot three times outside his condominium Thursday night just after he and the suspected gunman, 74-year-old Dan Andersen, had gotten into a fistfight over Cardoza’s collie.

Police Chief Jerry Dyer says the two neighbors had been arguing about the dog for about five years, but that officers had never been called to mediate the situation.
Andersen shot himself in his car near a Fresno restaurant an hour later as police tried to block in his vehicle.

Police Chief Jerry Dyer says the two neighbors had been arguing about the dog for about five years, but that officers had never been called to mediate the situation.