2 Killed, 2 Hurt in Shootout at Trailer
After feuding with the city of Bunker for years over an easement on his lot, a man apparently upset with city workers shot two people to death and wounded two others, authorities said. Police were searching for Garry Dewayne Watson, 49, in the remote, heavily wooded area surrounding this community of 300 people about 120 miles southwest of St. Louis. Watson lives in a double-wide mobile home on land next to a city-operated sewage lagoon. Workers frequently need to cross his property through the city-owned easement to perform work at the lagoon, Bunker Mayor David Burnett said.
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