A long-running dispute in a Southeast Portland neighborhood ended in deadly violence on the evening of June 27, 2015. Dean Kuntz, 57, was shot and killed in his front yard after an argument with his neighbor about that neighbor’s speeding on the residential street. Paramedics who arrived on Southeast 151st Avenue found Kuntz deceased.

Witnesses reported seeing the neighbor, Jon Landis, in the street with a handgun in one hand and a cell phone in the other, apparently speaking with police. Landis was arrested at the scene and booked into the Multnomah County Jail; he was later charged with murder. Kuntz’s family said he had previously confronted Landis about the speeding, and that prior confrontation helped explain the acrimony between them.

The estate of Dean Kuntz filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging the deadly consequences of the unresolved dispute. Did anyone in the neighborhood see signs of the conflict before June 27 that might help explain how it escalated?