Barking dogs may have sparked Arizona family slaying

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Barking dogs may have sparked Arizona family slaying
Posted: October 28, 2013 - 11:18pm
By BRIAN SKOLOFF

PHOENIX — It was the knock on the door every mother fears. Three police officers stood somberly to deliver the news.

“I’m sorry to tell you but Michael has been killed,” Jacque Alderman recalled one officer saying.

The 70-year-old’s son and three members of his family were shot to death over the weekend by a man neighbors say was incensed over the incessant noise of barking dogs.

For months, Michael Guzzo, 56, complained to neighbors about the barking from homes all around him in the tidy Phoenix complex where a central courtyard looks like a tree-laden park, even putting up fliers on doors advising people of pet ordinances and fines.

[JI7]

1. i have a feeling this guy would have done this even if there were no dogs

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Clearly he was just standing his ground.