Number 9 Raul Rodriguez On May the 1st of 2010, Texas man Kelly Danaher
threw a party at his home, in Huffman, to celebrate the birthdays of both his wife and
his young daughter. Raul Rodriguez, a family man himself, lived two doors down from Danaher and
would regularly call the police complaining of his loud neighbors. Rodriguez was a former firefighter
and Navy man who had a license to carry a concealed handgun. Yet, according to witnesses,
he’d often walk around with his firearm in plain sight. The Danaher daytime party extended into
the night and included karaoke as well as loud music. After calling the police multiple times,
Rodriguez decided to confront his neighbor and record the incident. The man was still on the
phone with police dispatch and told them “I have to defend myself”. Even though none of the men
from the party had weapons, Rodriguez pulled out his handgun and aimed it at Kelly Danaher.
As another man from the party approached him, he fired his weapon multiple times,
killing Danaher. In court, Rodriguez tried citing Texas’ Stand Your Ground in his defense, but
prosecutors argued it didn’t apply since he’d started the argument. For the murder of Danaher,
Rodriguez was sentenced to 40 years. Number 8 William Woodward
In the neighborhood of Titusville, Florida, William Woodward and Gary Hembree lived on the
same street. Their children played together and the two men had been friends for several years.
Everything changed in the summer of 2012, when the Woodwards accused Hembree’s daughter of stealing
a birthday present which had been left on their porch, for their own daughter. The relationship
between the two families rapidly disintegrated into threats and taunts. They started calling the
police on each other for various offences. The conflict escalated after William Woodward, who
testified in court he was a disabled Army veteran with PTSD, was forced to get rid of his chickens.
Hembree had reported Woodward for illegally raising the birds, which the veteran regarded
as therapy animals. During the ongoing feud, neighbor Tim Blake, a former friend of both men,
took Hembree’s side. The conflict reached its peak on Labor Day, 2012, when Hembree
was having a barbecue at his home. In the months leading up to it, he along with Roger Picior,
a man who was living with him, had reportedly taunted and insulted Woodward. The Army veteran
took a gun and went to Hembree’s house. He fatally shot Picior on the lawn, in front of his son.
He then went over to Tim Blake’s house and shot him 11 times. As Hembree came out to check on
the commotion, Woodward shot him in the chest. He fired two more bullets into Picior’s head,
after he returned. Hembree and Picior died while Blake survived. Woodward was charged with first
degree murder and attempted murder. Number 7 Debra Kincy
On October the 20th of 2015, Debra Kincy called 911 to report that she’d found her neighbor,
Charlotte Nicholas, dead and covered in blood. Kincy lamented the death of the woman, whom
she reportedly regarded as a friend. She even complained to the authorities of the violent
incident, which she described as uncharacteristic of the neighborhood in Oakland Park, Florida.
However, it was later revealed that the women, both in their early 60s, weren’t as friendly as
Kincy would’ve had investigators believe. Nicholas was reportedly afraid of Kincy, whom she described
as mentally unstable, and had sent her multiple text messages in which she’d urged the woman to
leave her alone. Moreover, Kincy had gone to a pawn shop on the day of the killing, wearing
bloodstained clothes, to sell several rings. They were later identified as belonging to Nicholas.
The following day, Kincy was quoted by an online newspaper as saying that she was sorry her friend
had been stabbed, even though the details of the murder hadn’t been released to anyone. Once tied
to the killing, Kincy admitted under interrogation she’d had an altercation with Nicholas but claimed
to have blacked out for most of it. Analysis of the victim’s body revealed she’d been stabbed over
70 times with a knife as well as a screwdriver. Number 6 Abdulbah I.
In December of 2010, a dispute over snow clearing ended in murder, in the German town of
Schnellenbach. The men involved, only identified as 45-year-old Abdulbah I. and Wolfgang K., aged
49, had an argument over whose responsibility it was to shovel the snow on the shared entrance to
their properties. The fight escalated and Abdulbah struck Wolfgang in the head with a snow shovel,
killing him on the spot. It was later revealed that the two had been feuding for years,
one major reason being that Wolfgang had built his home too close to Abdulbah’s,
depriving him of his view. Number 5 Junal Jordan
In 2017, a father-of-six was beaten to death by his deranged neighbor, for no apparent reason,
in an apartment building from the Bronx borough of New York City. 46-year-old Bakary Darboe was
in an elevator, heading back down from his apartment on the 9th floor. When the doors
opened on the 7th floor, he was dragged out and viciously attacked by his neighbor, Junal Jordan.
The man struck Darboe with his fists and a cellphone before fleeing the scene.
Prior to the attack, Jordan had reportedly been spotted shadowboxing in the hallway.
Darboe succumbed to his injuries while Jordan was arrested, a few blocks away, after the
police found him in blood-soaked clothes. Jordan had a long rap sheet, going back to the 1990s,
which included drug possession and reckless endangerment. It’s believed that the two men
didn’t know each other and that the attack had been random. For his horrific crime, Jordan was
given a sentence of 18 years to life in prison. Number 4 Zachary Latham
In May of 2020, a New Jersey teenager fatally stabbed his 51-year-old neighbor in a
confrontation that was allegedly motivated by aspiring TikTok fame. Zachary Latham,
who’d recently turned 18, had been feuding with William Durham Sr. for roughly two years
over the former's reckless driving on the residential road where they lived. Latham,
a private in the New Jersey National Guard who’d become legally emancipated at 17, had documented
the feud on TikTok. In April, when Durham’s wife tried to confront him over his driving,
he filmed the encounter. Latham repeatedly called her “Karen” in a video that earned over 3 million
views. The teen would continue to post other videos, boasting about his sports cars and about
how he would “handle” his neighbors captioned on a photo of him with a handgun. The Durham family was
told by the police that they couldn’t pursue legal action against him due to pandemic restrictions.
The feud culminated with Latham swerving his car into Durham’s 17-year-old son as he was
riding his bike. Durham Sr., his wife and their two sons went to confront Latham at his home.
As the teen came out, he shot Durham Sr. with a stun gun then fatally stabbed him. Latham’s wife,
Sarah, who filmed the entire incident, had threatened the family prior to the
attack. Latham maintained that he was acting in self-defense and was charged with first-degree
manslaughter. The Durham family and their legal team wanted it changed to murder.
They argued that the teen and his wife had lured them to the house in order to film
the confrontation for TikTok fame. The case is ongoing and Latham was released,
pending a trial, but continued to post on TikTok. According to the latest updates,
the teenager was legally ordered to stop talking about his own case on social media.
Number 3 Rahul Surin In October of 2020, a dispute in Jamshedpur,
in the Indian state of Jharkhand, ended in the death of a 30-year-old man.
The victim, Rajendra Sharma, tried to intervene in a drunken brawl that was taking place at the
home of his neighbour, 20-year-old Rahul Surin. Sharma had tried to calm the young man down but,
in doing so, became the target of his drunken rage. Surin grabbed a baseball bat and struck
Sharma in the back of the head. The victim was left bleeding profusely and was later pronounced
dead at a local hospital. Surin, who’d fled the scene, was arrested and subsequently imprisoned.
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Number 2 Alexander Alexandrov In 2009, Bulgarian man Alexander Alexandrov
stabbed his neighbor to death over a dispute regarding loud music.
According to the Croatian Times, 27-year-old Martin Kromov had been listening to “Angels”, by
Robbie Williams, on repeat, for over a week. After listening to the song being played at top volume
thousands of times, 45-year-old Alexandrov flew into a fit of rage and fatally stabbed Kromov.
He was captured by the police after he’d run out of gas while trying to dispose of his victim’s
body. Alexandrov told a court that he lived in constant terror of the music and think of
nothing else but ways of making his neighbor turn it off. For the killing, Alexandrov was given a
prison sentence of 16 years. Number 1 Melanie Smith
Prior to a tragic moment, in October of 2012, Melanie Smith and her neighbor, 20-year-old
Lee-Anna Shiers, would often argue. The apparent root of the issue was the baby stroller that
Shiers would sometimes leave in the communal hallway of the building they shared in Prestatyn,
Wales. Smith would, on occasion, even threaten the young mother that she’d burn her home down.
Smith was constantly angry over the faltering relationship with her partner.
The hatred she harboured was fueled by jealousy and exacerbated by her drinking problem.
These factors made her eventually view Shiers as a target. On October the 12th,
Smith was severely intoxicated when she saw the baby stroller in the hallway. The woman pulled out
a lighter and set fire to it. The blaze rapidly expanded, trapping Shiers and four other members
of her family in an upstairs apartment. All five of them perished in the fire. Other neighbors
had tried to help the family but couldn’t get past the intense heat and smoke. Smith,
who never took responsibility for the crime, was subsequently sentenced to 30 years in jail.
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