An argument between two armed neighbours over a dog and its doggy-doo escalated to a shoot-out in rural Mississippi, sending one neighbour to hospital with injuries from shotgun pellets and the other to jail.
Terry Tenhet, 52, said he was struck on Wednesday in both hands, the shoulder, chest and side by the spray of pellets from shotgun blasts fired by his neighbour, Jerry Blasingame, 60.
Washington County Sheriff's assistant chief deputy Billy Barber said Tenhet was angry with Blasingame because he thought Blasingame's mixed-breed dog had defecated on his lawn.
Tenhet said he went to his neighbour's house to complain about dog faeces on his lawn and encountered a drunk and irate neighbour.
Blasingame said they argued because Tenhet shot his dog last week and threatened to kill him and his dog "over poop".
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