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		</div><h3><span style="color:#808080;"><em><strong>&#8216;This doesn&#8217;t look like a dispute over dog droppings, sounds more like one party is jealous of the material ascendancy of the newbies&#8217;</strong></em></span></h3>
<h6><span style="color:#080000;"><strong>Georgia man confesses to fatally shooting his neighbor and his dog over droppings left in his yard</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#080000;"><strong>Larry Russell Bates admitted to fatally shooting Paul Allen Wilson, last month in Auburn, Georgia at 1 am, July 2</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#080000;"><strong>Bates, 46, was charged with felony murder and animal cruelty for shooting and killing Paul Allen Wilson, 44, and one of Wilson&#8217;s dogs</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#080000;"><strong>Officers arrived to find Paul Wilson and one of his dogs shot dead</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#080000;"><strong>Wilson&#8217;s wife, Beth, says Bates who lived opposite them, two months ago, became &#8216;obsessed&#8217; with the idea that their dogs were leaving feces in his </strong>front yard</span></h6>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-232681" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/larry-bates-3.png" alt="Larry Bates 3.png" width="597" height="648" /><br />
Georgia man, Larry Russell Bates [photo] has admitted to shooting and killing his neighbor, Paul Allen Wilson, and his dog last month</strong></h6>
<p>A Georgia man has confessed to killing his neighbor last month after believing his dog was leaving feces in his yard.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Larry Russell Bates, 46, from Auburn, was charged with felony murder and animal cruelty for shooting and killing Paul Allen Wilson, 44, and one of Wilson&#8217;s dogs.<br />
&#8216;Mr. [Larry] Bates confessed to shooting Paul Allen Wilson because the dog was using the bathroom in his yard,&#8217; Lt. Chris Hodge of the Auburn Police Department testified.<br />
Bates was arrested after the Auburn Police Department received a call about a neighborhood dispute on Crest Pointe Court in Auburn at about 1am in the early hours of July 2.<br />
Wilson had just taken his dog out for a walk when he and his pet were gunned down, officials said.</p>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-232689" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/larry-bates-4.png" alt="Larry Bates 4.png" width="909" height="638" />Larry Bates [photo], has confessed after being charged in connection with the shooting death of a former neighbor Paul Alan Wilson, July, in Auburn, Georgia,</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">By the time officers arrived to assist, Wilson had been shot in the head and torso &#8211; and one of the family dogs was dead.<br />
Wilson&#8217;s wife, Beth, told <a class="" href="http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/man-accused-of-killing-neighbor-over-dog-droppings-in-yard/550639496" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">WSB-TV </a>that Bates was &#8216;obsessed&#8217; because he was convinced their dogs were leaving droppings in his yard.<br />
She says their dogs weren&#8217;t responsible but offered to clean the waste up anyway.<br />
After the shooting, Bates was booked into the Barrow County Detention Center on murder and animal cruelty charges, officials said.</p>
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<h6 class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery"> <img class="alignnone wp-image-232714" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/beth-and-paul-wilson-11.jpg" alt="Beth and Paul Wilson 1.jpg" width="752" height="501" /><strong>Beth and Paul Wilson had endured two months of harassment from the neighbor opposite who would eventually gun Paul [right], down in cold blood</strong></h6>
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<div class="container-36EYi vertical--v2Ug">Wilson’s wife, Beth spoke about events leading to the shooting: “Bates just started harassing us about two months ago. He thought our dogs were using the bathroom in his yard.” She said it wasn&#8217;t true.</div>
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<p class="imageCaption"><img class=" size-full wp-image-232686 alignright" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/beth-and-paul-wilson-on-their-wedding-day-4.jpg" alt="Beth and Paul Wilson on their wedding day 4" width="306" height="484" /> On the day of the incident Paul came home from work as he normally did and took his dog and his mother-in-law&#8217;s dog on a walk. While on that walk his life was taken by a senseless act of violence by his neighbor.</p>
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<p class="imageCaption">Wilson&#8217;s (pictured) wife, Beth, said Bates was &#8216;obsessed&#8217; because he was convinced their dogs were leaving feces in his yard and would often watch for her husband going on nightly walks with the dog=</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Wilson&#8217;s wife, Beth, told Channel 2 news right after the shooting, &#8216;[Bates] just started harassing us about two months ago. He thought our dogs were using the bathroom in his yard.&#8217; She said the accusations were false.<br />
Beth added that Bates would often wait and watch for her husband going on nightly walks with the dogs.<br />
On the night of the shooting, Beth heard the shots and ran outside to find Paul laying on the sidewalk.<br />
She called 911 and a neighbor assisted her in getting the paramedics and cops to the scene.<br />
Unfortunately, it was too late and he died in her arms there on the sidewalk.<br />
Bates thought Paul&#8217;s dogs were using the restroom in his yard and he wasn&#8217;t picking it up the droppings.<br />
He would wait and watch for Paul&#8217;s nightly walks with his dogs. After multiple confrontations, Paul even tried to settle the situation by offering to pick up any dog waste that was being left behind.<br />
There were several months of harassment and seven separate police calls made about Bates by Beth and Paul to the local police department, but it wasn&#8217;t enough.</p>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-232685" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/beth-and-paul-wilson-5.png" alt="Beth and Paul Wilson 5" width="825" height="732" /><strong>Paul and Beth Wilson on their wedding day. Beth said she heard the shots and ran outside to find Paul laying on the sidewalk. She called 911 and a neighbor assisted her in getting the paramedics and cops to the scene</strong></h6>
<p>Police say Larry Bates shot and killed Paul Wilson and one of the family’s dogs around 1 a.m. Sunday.<br />
“He [Paul] is a good man. He didn’t cause any of this. He didn’t start a dispute,” Beth Wilson said about her dead husband.<br />
The victim’s wife said Bates followed her husband after he got off work and opened fire while he walked the dogs.<br />
Beth Wilson said she heard gunshots, then saw Bates run back into his home as she ran toward her husband.<br />
“I went to try to get his pulse and I put my hand on his back and I felt him take his last breath,” Beth Wilson said.<br />
Bates has been charged with murder and animal cruelty.<br />
“He’s just taken everything from me &#8212; my husband, my best friend, my future, our children that we could have had,” Beth Wilson sad.</p>
<h6><img class="" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/beth-wilson-and-her-husband-paul-allen-wilson-2.png?w=612" alt="Beth wilson and her husband Paul Allen Wilson 2" width="764" height="621" /><strong>“He [Bates] has just taken everything from me &#8212; my husband, my best friend, my future, our children that we could have had,” Beth Wilson [photo, right] said in reference to her killer neighbor.</strong></h6>
<p>A <a class="" href="https://www.gofundme.com/BethPaulWilson" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">GoFundMe</a> page has been set up to help with funeral expenses. So far, $1,220 has been raised out of a $10,00 goal.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">According to records, obtained by DailyMail.com, this is not the first time Bates has been in trouble with the law.<br />
In 2010, he pleaded no contest to four counts of simple battery and one count of family violence battery, serving probation for 12 months.<br />
In 2012, he pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal trespass, serving probation for 12 months and paying a $680 fine and serving 12 months&#8217; probation.</p>
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Unneighborly Georgia man, Larry Bates, confesses to fatally shooting his neighbor and his dog over droppings left in his yard
