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JACKSON, Miss. – An argument between two armed neighbors over a canid and its dejection escalated to a shootout in rural Mississippi, sending digit edge to the hospital with injuries from piece pellets and the another edge to jail.

Terry Tenhet, 52, told The Associated Press he was struck Wednesday in both hands, the shoulder, dresser and lateral by the spray of pellets from piece blasts fired by his neighbor, Jerry Blasingame, 60. The wounds are not life-threatening.

Washington County Sheriff's Assistant Chief Deputy Billy Barber said Tenhet was angry at Blasingame because he thought Blasingame's mixed-breed canid had defecated in his lawn.

Each Negro described his lateral of the argument and shootout to The Associated Press.

Tenhet says he was friends with Blasingame and only went over to his concern to kvetch in general most the canid dejection in his lawn — not to criminate him — and encountered a inebriate and angry neighbor.

Blasingame told the AP that they argued because Tenhet effort his canid terminal hebdomad and threatened to blackball him and his canid "over poop."

Tenhet denies actuation the dog: "I said 'Jerry, your canid ain't modify dead. He said 'Just foregather me at the levee and I'll dispense you down.'"

Blasingame said he got a armament and left the concern in his truck, hoping Tenhet would study so there would be no confrontation in front of bystanders.

Tenhet did not study and said Blasingame returned to the community from a different direction in an apparent attempt to trap him.

The men disagreement what happened next.

Blasingame says Tenhet was armed when he returned to the neighborhood: "(Tenhet) said, 'Point that armament at me.' I said, 'No, saucer that armament at me.' He effort twice. I returned fire."

Tenhet says he was clean when Blasingame returned and told Tenhet he was going to dispense him: "I said, man, do what you gotta do" before Blasingame unsealed fire.

Tenhet said he grabbed his piece from his nearby automobile and returned fire. Tenhet says he dropped his instrument after existence struck in both thumbs by piece pellets.

Blasingame was charged with aggravated assault. Tenhet could also grappling charges.

Barber, the honcho deputy, said the actuation was senseless.

"Homeowners and concept owners requirement to attitude apiece other's property. Don't permit your dogs do that on another people's yards," he said. "Then, at the aforementioned time, if a canid did do that in your yard, call the law. Don't verify make matters into your possess hands."

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