A long-running neighbor dispute in Raton, New Mexico, ended in deadly violence on April 1, 2021. Seventy-seven-year-old James McDowell was shot in an alley near his home on North 1st Street and suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency crews pronounced him dead at the scene after police arrived about 3:08 p.m.

The man accused was McDowell’s neighbor, 51-year-old David Morgan, who contacted authorities after the shooting and told dispatchers he had shot a man and requested an ambulance. Investigators reported McDowell was unarmed; prosecutors described the history of conflict between the two men as a motive. Morgan was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder.

Does anyone in Raton remember the two men or have information about their disputes?