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Police: Dispute over snow removal ends with tires shot out
MACHIAS, N.Y. – State police say a dispute between neighbours over snow removal ended with a western New York man shooting out the tires of his neighbour’s vehicle while the neighbour was sitting in it.
Troopers say they responded late Wednesday night to a report of a neighbour dispute in the Cattaraugus County town of Machias (muh-CHYE’-uhs), 35 miles southeast of Buffalo.
Police say they learned a 55-year-old man got into a verbal and physical confrontation with a neighbour over snow blowing. Troopers say during the argument the man got a shotgun and shot out the tires of his neighbour’s vehicle. The neighbour wasn’t injured by the gunfire.
Charges against the shotgun-wielding neighbour include reckless endangerment, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon. The man is being held in the county jail on $10,000 cash bail.
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