Paul Allen Wilson was 44 when he was shot to death on the night of July 2, 2017, in Auburn, Georgia. After returning from work as a cook, he took his dogs for their nightly walk; the walk ended when a neighbor, identified as Larry Russell Bates, confronted him just after 1 a.m. and shot him multiple times. One of the Wilsons’ dogs was also killed.

Paul and his wife, Beth, had endured months of harassment from Bates over accusations that their dogs had been defecating in his yard, a claim the Wilsons denied. The two men had reportedly appeared to put the dispute behind them about two weeks before the shooting, but the conflict escalated into fatal violence.

Bates was arrested at the scene and booked into the Barrow County Detention Center, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was called in to assist. If anyone in Auburn knew Paul or witnessed interactions between the families, does anything about that night or the lead-up to the dispute stand out?