Tag: family feuds
Shirtless dad, son arrested for gunning down neighbor in trash fight
A west Texas man was gunned down by his two shirtless neighbors – in a shocking confrontation recorded by the victim’s girlfriend, according to a broadcast report on Wednesday.
Aaron Howard, 37, was killed on Sept. 1 in Abilene, allegedly by father-and-son neighbors Johnnie and Michael Miller, authorities said.
They’ve both been arrested and charged with murder.
The deadly confrontation was caught on the cellphone of Howard’s fiancée, Kara Box, who shared the video with KTXS.
“People deserve to know what actually happened,” Box told the ABC affiliate.
The three men were arguing over a dumped mattress in an alley behind Howard’s house on Don Juan Street in Abilene, according to the video.
The dad, Johnnie Miller, 67, was holding a pistol while Michael Miller, 31, had a shotgun, KTXS reported.
“If you come closer to me, I’m gonna kill you,” the elder Miller reportedly could be heard yelling at Howard.
And amazingly, Howard didn’t back down.
“Hey, did you hear him say he’s going to kill me?” the victim told his filming fiancée.
Howard then barked at his two armed neighbors to leave the scene, according to the report.
“Put the gun up and go inside!” Howard yelled.
Box tried to intervene and told the father and son: “You’re not going to shoot my husband.”
The men kept arguing, and at least two pistol shots were fired by the dad, Box told the station.
Her video captured the sound of the pistol fire but not any images of Johnnie Miller shooting.
Box did capture Michael Miller opening fire with his shotgun.
Taylor County DA Jim Hicks said the video could be key evidence.
“Video evidence like this is always graphic and very difficult to watch,” Hicks said in an interview on the station. “But, it is consistent with the charges.”
The father and son have been charged with first-degree murder. Both are out on $25,000 bail, KTXS reported.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/20/shirtless-dad-son-allegedly-gun-down-neighbor-over-trash-fight/
Mom allegedly killed son, buried him with sheep heads over $3M inheritance
A cancer-stricken mother allegedly killed her 29-year-old son in his sleep and buried his body in a pit with sheep heads to settle a feud over who should inherit the family’s $3 million ranch in Colorado, authorities said.
Deborah Sue Rudibaugh, 68, confessed in July to killing her son, Jacob Henry Millison, and burying his body by herself more than two years earlier, according to court records in Gunnison County obtained by the Denver Post.
But investigators at the time considered Rudibaugh’s confession to be an attempt to shield her daughter and son-in-law from being connected to the gruesome murder.
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reported that Rudibaugh, of Parlin, was arrested on first-degree murder charges in Grand Junction on Friday, one day after her daughter, Stephanie Jackson, 33, was arrested on the same charge. Investigators believe Jackson killed her brother in order to gain control of the family’s 700-acre ranch in Quartz Creek Valley.
Jackson’s husband, David Jackson, 34, was also arrested Tuesday on charges of accessory to first-degree murder and tampering with the body of Millison, the Denver Post reported. All three remain held in the Gunnison County jail.
The family, according to arrest warrant affidavits obtained by the newspaper, was quarreling over an inheritance from Rudibaugh’s second husband, who left behind sums ranging from $35,000 to $45,000 to four children from his first marriage and $30,000 to Stephanie Jackson.
Rudy Rudibaugh, who died in 2009, left the ranch to Deborah Rudibaugh in his will. The Jacksons then returned to the ranch in 2012 after renting out their Denver home.
Millison filed for a restraining order against David Jackson after he pulled a gun on him in January 2013. Millison later disappeared in May 2015, leaving his vehicles and dog, Elmo, behind at the ranch. An investigation into his disappearance was later launched after several people filed missing-person reports.
Rudibaugh then claimed to investigators that her son went on a motorcycle trip to California and hung with an unpredictable group of friends while he used drugs ranging from cocaine to steroids. She also claimed he took with him a book called “How to Disappear Without Leaving a Trace,” the Denver Post reports.
Rudibaugh later told police Millison “deserted” the family after she tore up a will that split the ranch between him and his sister, replacing the document with a will that left everything to her.
One month later, in July 2015, Rudibaugh admitted killing her son and took deputies to the spot where she said she buried him after claiming he tossed her in a ditch and threatened to kill her if she didn’t authorize a new will excluding the Jacksons.
Rudibaugh, who is now battling breast cancer, told investigators she shot her son in the head as he slept and later wrapped the body in plastic before using her “Yankee ingenuity” and a front-end loader to bury his body in a pile of horse manure in a livestock pen. Rudibaugh said she later moved the body to protect it from being disturbed by animals.
Rudibaugh, according to the affidavit, said she planned to leave behind prior to her death a letter detailing why she killed her son and where authorities could locate his body.