A longtime neighbor dispute in Hollytree, Alabama, ended in a fatal shooting on November 4, 2024. Deputies responded to a private drive off County Road 12 that afternoon and found 42-year-old Adam Douglas Cooner deceased from a gunshot wound. Cooner was a United States Marine Corps veteran, a father of three boys, and worked as a Master Machinist at Norris Cylinder in Huntsville; he held an associate’s degree in Machine Technology and enjoyed hunting, fishing, and the outdoors.

Investigators arrested Cooner’s neighbor, 57-year-old Daniel Lambert, who was charged with murder. The sheriff’s office says the men had been in a yearslong dispute that escalated during an exchange at the front of Lambert’s property; Lambert allegedly shot Cooner. Lambert had faced a 2022 misdemeanor harassment arrest filed by Cooner, a charge that was later dismissed. Bond had not been set in the initial reports.

If anyone in Hollytree or the surrounding area saw or heard anything related to that afternoon or knew the nature of the feud, please share information with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.