[narrator] Moving in right beside old friends may bring you closer...
-Oh, that'll be nice. -Huh.
Can I help with that?
I was thinking that their relationship was unbreakable.
[narrator] ...but when life next door becomes constant disruption,
those friendships are destroyed...
They're rude.
No other way to put it.
You should see less of him.
...and once-peaceful neighbors spiral out of control.
Keep your stuff on your side.
Shut up or come out here, you creep!
You're doing this on purpose!
Stay away from my family.
"Do it because I said so."
Everyone, calm down!
...and I think that pissed him off.
Everybody hates you.
"One of these days, I'm gonna...
...all three of you."
[dispatcher] 911, where's the emergency?
Is it about the gunshots? We're getting units heading that way.
-[gunshot] -[woman 1] Good to see you.
[groan]
[man 1] I know what you did.
[woman 2] Stay out of my neighborhood!
[man 2] Stay away from my wife!
Get on the ground, now.
[woman 3 wails]
[narrator] This little hamlet in Texas is only 16 miles from downtown Dallas.
Cedar Hill is actually a fairly small town
that's nestled into Dallas County.
It was a traditional neighborhood where everybody knew everybody.
It was pretty... [hesitates] It was pretty peaceful, like...
[narrator] Jeri Edwards and David Bailey have lived in this home for over a year,
but not for much longer.
Oh, I just wanna sweep up a bit before we go.
What for?
[narrator] They are both hard-working truck drivers, though Jeri is now a manager.
At one point, my mom had three full-time jobs.
Don't know how the heck she managed to do it, but she did.
She was a determined person.
Her fiance, David, was a quiet person for the most part.
[narrator] They've been together seven years, recently getting engaged.
The couple is moving out of this house
to start a new chapter in their lives...
That should do it.
-You ready to say goodbye? -Ooh, yes.
That was a rental property,
and the rent just kept getting higher and higher and higher.
[narrator] ...but they aren't going far.
In fact, they are only moving right next door.
[Nick] David's daughter and her husband,
they ended up purchasing the house,
so they ended up renting the house from her.
[narrator] Since the owners are family,
they have the freedom to renovate it any way they like.
We got our work cut out for us.
Yep.
It had to be completely gutted.
It was going to end up needing a complete restoration on the inside.
Let's get the rest of the stuff in.
Yeah.
-Oh, seriously. -Okay, just... just put it down.
-[sighs] -Was it this heavy when we moved it out of the house?
-I don't think so. -[chuckles]
[narrator] There is an added bonus to moving next door...
-[speaking indistinctly] -Can I help with that?
-[Jeri] Oh, hi. Hi. -[David] Yes.
[narrator] ...in that it brings them one house closer
to their neighbors, the Silvers.
Danny and Theresa Silvers
were friends with my mother and David.
[narrator] Danny and Theresa Silvers
have lived in this neighborhood longer than most anyone else.
Danny has just retired from his job as a truck driver,
and Theresa works for the transit agency.
Mr. Silvers was a... a character.
He is a... a very big character.
Danny, uh, Silvers is the kind of person
that you could invite into your home and you could trust.
Easiest move I've ever seen.
Well, not quite.
There was a normal, healthy, friendly neighbor relationship.
I was thinking that their relationship was unbreakable, you know.
[narrator] But anything can break under pressure.
Get your ass out of here!
Stay away from my family.
If she had whistles in her ears, they would've been tooting.
She had steam coming out.
[narrator] Moving closer together strengthens the bond
between Jeri, David, and the Silvers.
They actually hung out together,
you know, and sat around, drank beers and stuff together.
You remember the Smiths down the street?
I do. They were a-- They were a nice couple.
Can't tell you how many times he'd been over and hang out, you know.
I mean, it's just standard neighborly stuff.
I was thinking of digging up all along here and planting rose bushes.
-Oh, that'll be nice. -[Nick] Mom?
The front door was unlocked.
Hey, there you are.
-[Nick giggles] I missed you. -Hello.
-This is my son, Nick. -Hi.
He's gonna be living with us for a bit.
In 2015, I moved back down to Texas
and was staying with my mom and David,
just trying to start life over, um, reestablishing.
When I first moved back down here,
I didn't have a job, of course.
That I was looking for work and needing money.
-I'm looking for work. -We could do something about that.
I got a list of chores as long as my arm.
Danny had given me an offer of doing some yard work.
I'm thinking, "Okay... great."
Oh, that's awesome. Thank you.
Speaking of work, I gotta get going.
[narrator] David heads off to his job,
but since retiring, Danny spends a lot more time in the neighborhood.
And he is starting to not like what he sees.
Take a look at that.
-What does that look like to you? -Someone napping.
[narrator] Danny grills a recent addition to the street, Quiness Durham.
-You know this guy? -What?
-No. -You... You live around here?
Yeah. We just moved in over there.
Why?
When we first moved into the neighborhood,
it was from that time period on, he's just been keeping an eye on me.
I've never seen you before.
So?
-So, what do you think? -About what?
I don't know, this guy looks like he could be on dope or something.
-[car starting] -On dope?
Oh, no, I...
-Hello, police? -[Nick] Oh, is that necessary?
I'd like to report a...
Never mind.
Danny was a guy that obeyed the law
and expected others to do the same.
He made it seem like...
he was Mr. Tough Guy.
That's the kind of feeling it was.
[Cox] Danny did like things to be orderly.
[narrator] The retiree finds the growing noise next door to be a nuisance.
[hammering]
[drilling]
Where's that coming from?
[shatters]
Hello.
Hey, hey.
They're stripping out this house, rehabbing it.
They're making noise. They're leaving trash sitting around.
Do you have to be so loud?
It's a reno. I mean, noise happens.
He knew that they were gonna fix the place up.
I think he... he was surprised and thrown off, I guess,
by how much actually goes into renovating a house,
and I think that pissed him off.
Can you try just to keep it down a little bit?
I don't think that's gonna be a possibility.
-We can turn the music down. -Yep, but that's about it.
Don't worry. It's not forever.
They were just flabbergasted of how irate he seemed.
[narrator] And it's not just the noise that's bothering Danny.
The construction mess is slowly encroaching onto his yard.
Can you please keep your stuff on your side?
I'd appreciate it.
You know, maybe you should see less of him.
My mom started to pull away from him,
but David never really let Danny, you know, get under his skin.
Maybe he's just having a bad day.
They're rude.
No other way to put it.
Especially her.
This whole construction project that they were doing
begins the deterioration of what started out as a good relationship.
Danny was doing his best to, uh, have people respect his rights.
[narrator] It's not long before Nick and Danny's relationship changes as well.
Hey, can I get the eaves done today?
I... I wanna get it before the rain comes in.
Oh, I'm really sorry, man. I got a new job, and I start today.
Once I was able to, you know, find a... a job,
it was very difficult for me to be able to help
as far as any kind of yard work, stuff like that anymore.
So...
I couldn't do it. I had to turn him down.
-I got stuff I need done. -I'm really sorry, but I can't help.
Just forget it.
[car starting]
I already was starting to see his true colors.
[narrator] The renovation to David and Jeri's house
is taking longer than expected,
and as the construction drags on, the noise steadily increases...
[drilling]
...and the mess gets worse.
So, during the remodeling,
they were doing it in a way that really seemed like it wasn't the... the right way.
It was so bad. I mean, between just, you know, Sheetrock and carpet,
and, ugh, the dust amounts.
-[machinery whirring] -Hey.
Hey!
[whirring stops]
What are you doing?
What does it look like?
[narrator] Danny is concerned about the sawdust settling on his vehicle.
And what about my truck?
Do you want a tarp?
This is demolition.
Things are gonna get tore up. There...You know, there's gonna be debris.
No, I don't want a tarp.
What I want for you to do is stop doing what you're doing--
That's not gonna happen,
so you're just gonna have to deal with it, Danny.
My mom, being a truck driver, she was tough.
Danny did not like that.
-Talk to me like that, you... -Danny.
Those of us who own their own homes
tend to be a little more respectful of each other.
-What's that supposed to mean? -It means I'm not freeloading off my kids.
Clean up the junk pile.
[narrator] The one solid friendship is falling apart
and threatens to push an entire neighborhood to the brink.
-You're doing this on purpose! -Hey, take it easy.
Nobody respects you.
I didn't understand how everything
just went to the commode.
They got along just fine, the Baileys, the Silvers, when they were separated.
But these two didn't mix out real well as next-door neighbors.
[narrator] As the renovations continue with no end in sight,
Danny Silvers' frustration at his once good friends begins to rise.
Once the Baileys started this construction project next door,
they weren't keeping it orderly,
so Danny was... was frustrated.
[narrator] As the remodeling takes shape inside,
Jeri sets her sights on the outside as well.
My mom was extremely gifted with a lot of things, um,
and she had a green thumb.
She was always outside working on that yard, like, watering and mowing.
She loved it.
[narrator] Danny is not impressed.
Hey! Hey!
You gonna make a mess of my lawn too?
-What do you mean? -You're cutting my lawn.
The way he would discuss issues that bother him was,
"We don't need to talk about it. Just do what I said."
You know, like that real strict parent.
"Do it because I said so."
Hey, I'm talking to you.
My mom wouldn't do what he wanted her to do.
He would let that push him into another level.
I mean, come on, let it go.
[narrator] Danny doesn't feel he's getting the respect he deserves.
Danny had kind of felt like
he was part of the backbone of the neighborhood.
Now we're his new focus.
[narrator] David Bailey, Jeri Edwards, and her son, Nick,
feel like they're constantly under Danny's watchful eye.
I mean, how... how can you live?
We can't exist?
So did we make a mistake?
No matter what we do, it's not right.
[narrator] Danny continues his neighborhood watch,
increasingly irritated at the state of the community.
[sighs] What is wrong with people?
[narrator] He begins to grow suspicious of his new neighbor,
Quiness Durham.
Aren't you forgetting something?
He believed there was something going on over there.
He'd watch the cars come up...
and they'd park...
somebody would go in there.
About five minutes later, a car would start, and it would leave,
and another car would pull up.
Five minutes later, car would leave.
So Danny was just...
watching me from across the street.
I could never even understand why he would do that.
I think Danny just immediately thought the worst of everybody.
[narrator] Mostly, Danny is concerned with his property.
When a contractor shows up to do some work on David and Jeri's home,
he swoops into action.
-What do you think you're doing? -I'm parking.
Not here, you're not. Not there.
The contractor parked in front of our driveway,
and Danny threw a fit.
What's going on here?
You think you own the street now?
-You can't block me in like that. -There's stuff on my driveway.
No, you got garbage on your driveway.
It's only for a minute.
-I just need to-- -Move your truck.
His bumper may have been over the driveway about that far,
but there was no reason for that...
to be an issue.
I... I could just park down the street.
[Jeri] I'll show you where to park.
-Okay? -Okay, thanks.
My mom was like, "Just pull in the yard."
So they did, you know.
That was not...
the ideal, uh, decision for Danny. [chuckles]
Better?
Are you purposely trying to look more like hobos?
Apparently, that was trashy of us.
Ignore him. Everyone else does.
[narrator] According to the neighbors,
Danny is now convinced he needs to keep an even closer eye on things.
[Danny] Far enough.
I said that's far enough.
Stay on your side.
[narrator] Jeri can hear Danny,
but can't see him.
So his little hideout in the tree,
and you would never even notice there.
What is it?
-Something weird is going on. -What do you mean?
You want me to come out?
Nah, never mind.
You wouldn't even know Danny was outside until he said something.
What did I tell you?
Shut up or come out here, you creep!
Don't be talking to me that way.
It's like, "What... What are you doing back there?"
Who does that?
What are you doing?
Are you spying on us? On me?
I'm just having my sandwich, but... but I can see you just fine.
They had claimed that he would watch them,
but Danny said he just liked to sit out front, relax in the shade.
Are you, uh, almost finished with this renovation,
or do you even know what you're doing?
Ugh. Oh, man.
Don't turn your back on me.
Hey. Hey!
If you didn't pay attention to him and coddle him like a child,
he would throw a temper tantrum about it.
Look at me when I'm speaking to you.
I've been on this street longer than you,
longer than everybody on this street.
I said, don't turn your back on me.
Hey, look at me when I'm speaking to you.
Danny, Danny, Danny, you need to back off.
Danny said that David pulled a knife on him.
Put that thing away.
You stay away from me.
I have no idea of what...
that, uh, is even coming from.
David was the most passive...
calm person.
-Both of you, stay away from me. -Danny.
Danny had stepped back from the encounter,
didn't call the police or anything, but withdrew.
[narrator] Yet, Danny does have the means to protect his property.
[door closes]
Danny was a guy that had a handgun in his home.
Texas, anybody can possess a gun.
[Theresa] Danny, what is it?
[narrator] Nobody can see just how far this feud will be taken.
Within the next month or so, it just escalated.
It was very gruesome.
Things had... had started to progress down that slope,
and it just... that snowball kept picking up speed.
[narrator] It's only been two months since Jeri Edwards and David Bailey
moved closer to Theresa and Danny Silvers,
and the tension is unbearable.
It's weird. It seemed like...
he was staking out the neighborhood,
and he was the sheriff, sole appointed.
[narrator] Soon, every resident of the neighborhood
seems to raise Danny's ire.
Hey, what are you doing?
-What's going on? -He's trying to steal my truck.
-He's trying to tie his shoe. -This is all your fault.
These punks coming around here to see you.
He used to make the comment,
"He's making, uh, this area look trashy."
You're selling dope.
Do you think I'm an idiot?
[Quiness] Danny thought I was drug dealing,
those opiods, the works.
Mind your business.
And you'd better stop.
[narrator] But Danny won't let it go.
[knocking at door]
-What's going on? -I need you to step outside.
What the...
He called the police on me.
I had probably like six, seven police officers pull up on my home.
Listen, I'm not a drug dealer. I'm a barber.
What?
Come in, take a look.
I was cutting hair and minding my business.
I had invited the police to come in my home
and look how I was living and for them to find nothing.
Sorry to have bothered you.
Yeah. [sighs]
What? Aren't you gonna do anything?
There's no illegal activity going on in there.
-He's dealing drugs. -You've got that wrong.
He's only dealing haircuts.
After the... the police, uh, were at Quiness' house,
he was so convinced that it was all a lie.
There's no way nothing is going on over there.
You may have fooled the police,
but you haven't fooled me.
[Nick] He was like a dog with a bone for that poor kid.
I think he's lost it.
He honed in on that... that boy for no reason.
From Danny's perspective,
he's the guy who is just trying to keep the neighborhood safe.
[narrator] But according to Quiness,
he has an encounter with Danny that leaves him in fear for his life.
[Quiness] He pulled up on me in his truck.
What do you think you're doing?
He did have a gun at me.
Take it easy.
I was pretty spooked out.
I'm just going to the store, okay?
I'm just going to the store. I was taking a shortcut.
I was just trying to calm him down.
That probably scared the heck out of that poor boy.
Probably made him fearful to even live there.
Now, Danny says he didn't do that.
[narrator] Whether it's true or not,
the story makes the rounds in the neighborhood.
It's not right. He didn't do anything wrong.
I'd be afraid, too.
[narrator] Danny won't let anyone disrupt the peace on the street he cherishes.
Jeri and David don't know how much longer they can put up with him.
The whole community is in a vise grip.
"Should we not have bought this house?
Should we move?
How should we address this?"
[narrator] It doesn't take long for things to reach the point of no return.
Why don't you make your lunch the night before?
There was no worries in my life at all that morning when I got up to go to work.
If you really loved me, you'd make it for me.
-Ah, shut up and go to work. -[both chuckle]
-You're already late. -Okay, fine.
[giggles]
[Nick] It's a little unnerving to wonder if somebody is watching you.
You know, you... the hair on your neck stands up.
I am alert.
Danny would typically be at home.
He has a nice pickup truck. It's Texas.
Do you want a lift?
It's nice out. I'll walk.
I thought you were gonna water the garden this morning.
I don't wanna work outside while he's there.
I can't be bothered.
I'm gonna work out back.
"It's not worth it. He's not worth it.
I'm just gonna stay away from him."
If he was home, she did the stuff in the backyard.
Danny had washed his truck, wiped it down,
had the windows down so it would air out.
You know, he'd gone over the interior and everything.
Went in the house.
Jeri had come out and put the lawn sprinkler out.
Hey!
And because Danny had left the windows down,
that meant it was sprinkling the inside of his truck.
Get your ass out of here!
[shouting] What is your problem? Are you blind,
or are you doing this on purpose?
"Hey, what are you doing just putting your sprinkler out there
to where it's gonna be watering my truck?
I mean, seriously, are you not paying attention?"
What did we do now, Danny?
-Look at my truck. -I mean, what about it?
He came out, cussing and screaming
because she got water on his truck.
-You're soaking my truck! -[Jeri chuckles]
For heaven sakes, it won't melt.
Mom said, "Shut up, it's only water."
-What about my truck? -Shove your truck.
And you know where you can shove it.
And Jeri was telling Danny, uh, what he could do with his opinion.
-Don't talk to me like that. -Don't tell me what to say.
My mom was not a happy camper.
She was heated.
Shut your mouth.
Or what?
And he said, "One of these days, I'm gonna...
all three of you."
Don't push me.
Don't... push me.
[narrator] Jeri and Danny are both reaching their breaking point.
The only question now is who will snap first.
It's like he's looking to start a fight...
with somebody just to cause a conflict
to where he could escalate it.
Basically, the friction was making things worse and worse.
[narrator] For Danny, a few drops of water is gasoline on the fire.
Danny went and he called the police.
[Nick] When I came back,
cops were there.
What's going on?
We get his truck wet, and he calls the police on us.
-That doesn't make any sense. -I know. Officer, I don't understand.
What? Okay, something's not adding up here.
Are they... Are you telling me the whole story?
Officer, I don't understand. How is that a crime? It was an accident.
That's vandalism. You got no respect for my property.
Of course, it's a crime.
Obviously, the cops, basically told everybody to calm down.
I don't believe it is.
I'll tell you what's a crime.
He threatens to kill the family.
He threatens to shoot all of us, including my son.
-Right, he did. -Yeah.
And he's just gonna get away with that?
I never said that.
The cops, "Well, we can't do anything. He hasn't done anything."
I say, "He threatened to shoot us.
He has a gun."
We wet his truck, and he calls the cops.
But he threatens to kill us...
-and what are you gonna do about that? -He denies making any threats.
[Jeri scoffs]
Unbelievable.
The Baileys said, "Hey, Danny threatened my life."
But Danny said, "That just flat-out wasn't true."
I said, "Well, if he does shoot?"
"Call us." I said, "That's gonna be hard to do when we're dead."
I didn't say that! You're lying!
You stay away from my mother!
Everyone, calm down! Please go home. Cool off.
They told everybody,
"Go in your house.
Stay in your house."
I've lived here for 26 years. I pay taxes.
I expected better from police.
That's what's frustrating Danny.
The cops aren't doing anything about this,
and it's gonna be a problem.
And unfortunately, that's exactly what it was gonna become.
Have a good day and try to relax.
And they left.
Okay, now I'm upset.
[narrator] As the day drags on,
anger and resentment only grows.
[breathing heavily]
Danny was frustrated by the police response.
Basically, they didn't address the issue.
They didn't do anything about the fact that...
Jeri was encroaching on his rights as a property owner.
Oh, come on!
I am so sick of him.
She was like, "Ugh, I can't stand that [bleep]."
-He's losing it. -Yeah.
Oh, crap. I think I forgot my keys in the car.
I go to walk back towards the front door...
and there's Danny.
What the hell, man?
What do you want from me?
I want nothing, okay? Absolutely nothing from you. Do you understand?
I said, "Danny, I have nothing to say to you.
Leave me the [bleep] alone.
We have nothing to talk about."
Well, I have something to talk to you about.
I don't care.
What kind of a man are you?
"Don't you threaten my mother.
Men don't threaten women like that,"
I said, "Cowards do that."
Don't talk to me that way--
Don't you ever talk to me again!
I thought you were a creep from day one, and it turns out I was right.
I said, "You know, I already didn't care for you as it was."
So stay away from me.
Stay away from my family.
"You are now officially under the piece of [bleep] category with me."
And if you wanna threaten somebody...
I dare you to threaten me.
"If you wanna fight with somebody so bad...
I am a grown man, if that's what you want."
...if you think you're man enough.
Nick, uh, went ahead and challenged Danny to a fight, which,
keep in mind, that Nick's...
what, 30, 40 years younger?
Listen here, you little punk-ass.
I have dealt with people like you my entire life.
This is my street.
-Great. Now what? -[Danny] You listen to me and tell me
you do not want to open that.
-Clean up your mother's mess. -What is going on here?
Just... Mom, I got this.
I'm telling, "Mom, just... just go in the house. Go in the house."
Just... Just stay away from me.
You are the one that came out here to start this fight.
-Now you can't handle it? -Danny, go inside.
Or meet me out in the street, and we can finally end this.
Everybody in this neighborhood, nobody respects you.
-Nobody likes you. -[Nick] And you watch from the windows.
-You're a cancer in this neighborhood, Danny. -Everybody hates you.
[indistinct shouting]
[gunshots]
And it escalated more.
It... It... It got built up more.
We have lived there for 26 years,
not very many problems.
I never thought this kind of stuff would happen.
[siren blaring]
[narrator] By the time police arrive, Nick is clinging to life.
He's been shot three times.
You can... You can only imagine what it feels like.
I remember feeling the burn.
[narrator] David has also taken three bullets,
but Jeri suffers the brunt of Danny's fury.
She has been shot six times.
They do this to me... [mumbling]
I can't tell you how long it was...
laying there on the ground.
-[siren blaring] -I remember... I remember the lights...
and I remember the cops...
yelling at Danny.
[male police officer] Freeze! Get on the ground! Hands up!
What was I supposed to do? You guys wouldn't help me.
[narrator] Danny tells law enforcement he was forced to defend himself.
There they was, all three, coming at me.
I'm warning you, man, if you mess with my mom, I will mess you up.
And Nick, he said, "I'll come over and cut your effing head off,
stuff it down your neck."
I said, "Do not come any closer."
No, no, no, back away. You just stay away.
That's where I think things went wrong
because the Baileys started goading Danny...
You don't have the guts.
...and they were saying to Danny, like, "Oh, big man with a gun,"
and basically daring Danny to do something with the gun,
daring Danny to shoot 'em.
And I didn't know if they had a gun, a ball bat.
I didn't know if they had a... a knife.
I wasn't gon' get cut up. I wasn't gon' get hit with something.
I wasn't gon' let 'em get that close.
-[Jeri] Nobody respects you. -I'll throw more garbage there
-if I want. -[Jeri] Creep.
When they come at me and more aggressive,
hollering and cussing louder, getting loud and belligerent
all three of them, threatening to beat my old ass up
and, uh, saying a lot of stuff like that.
And... stuff I'm not gonna say right now.
It happened.
I started shooting at 'em.
[Nick groans]
[David shouts] Danny, why did you shoot me?
His actions, as far as what he did next, for me,
really showed that his belief, uh, that he needed to defend himself,
uh, was genuine.
[sighs]
[groans]
-[breathing heavily] -[phone dialing]
Theresa, I... I shot them.
-What? Danny, what have you done? -I...
I shot them. They made me, Theresa.
He called his wife and he told her,
"Hey, the neighbors just attacked me. I had to shoot them,"
and he called 911.
The two sides, uh, disagree as to what happened next.
[narrator] Following this shooting, Nick is briefly paralyzed.
After repairs to his spinal cord,
he is released from the hospital,
with his own version of the story to tell.
Leave my mother alone, okay?
If you wanna fight with somebody, you fight with me.
I was like, "Let's go. You have your option.
We can go out there right now. We can handle this and settle it,
and it'll be done."
Actually, I... I remember, is he said,
"To hell with this," and he pulled out his gun
and just started popping rounds.
Mom tried to go towards the door,
and David tried to go to the left.
I...
then noticed my mother was laying on the ground.
[Nick moaning]
And I remember grabbing the grass and dragging myself to her.
[moaning continues]
All I... All I could do is I... I just... I reached for her and...
Mom.
[shouting] Danny, why did you do this?
[Nick] Then I heard David.
I could hear David, and I could hear that he was injured.
I... I saw... I knew at that point he had been shot.
And he's yelling out at Danny,
"Why did you shoot me? Why did you shoot my wife?"
[David coughs]
[Nick] As I was holding my mom's hand...
I got this... I heard, uh, some people call it, uh, the death rattle.
I didn't... I didn't know that at the time.
I remember that paramedic got offered to me, and I shoved him back.
I...
"Don't [bleep] touch me. Help my mom.
Leave me the [bleep] alone. Help my mom."
[narrator] But it's too late.
Jeri is pronounced dead at the scene.
Along with Nick, David survives.
Danny Silvers is arrested and charged with one count of murder
and two counts of aggravated assault.
Danny believed that his actions, he was in the right,
and so he waived his rights and told the police he did it, and...
you know, he did it in self-defense.
And if Cedar Hill Police Department would have done something,
this would never happen probably.
[narrator] The jury doesn't buy Danny's story.
He is found guilty and sentenced to 35 years in prison.
I mean, I'm 75 here. They charged me with...
Give me 35 years.
[narrator] After her husband is incarcerated,
Theresa Silvers leaves the neighborhood.
She certainly hadn't done anything wrong,
but she ended up putting the house up for sale
and moving out of town after this incident.
[narrator] Nick also leaves Cedar Hill.
David decides to stay put in his home,
where tragedy finds him again.
David ended up getting a roommate.
I'm not sure 100% of all the details,
but... this guy apparently...
pulled a gun on David and shot him...
in the same damn house.
One of the rounds completely shattered his arm in half.
The guy ended up turning the gun on himself and killing himself.
[narrator] This time, David succumbs to his injuries.
It may be bad, and... and, um, people say,
"You know, you're supposed to forgive. Let go. Forgive."
I'm sorry. I do not forgive.
I have no forgiveness in my... mind, body or soul for that man.
I didn't want that to happen.
I never thought in my life that I would shoot somebody like that.
Man, I... if I could take it back, I know you can't,
but by golly, I...
It was hell. It's hell now.
I think he was his own worst nightmare.
His own worst enemy.
That... day...
relives in my head every day.
Every single day.
I'd... I'd like to tell you that there's a day that...
I don't think about it. It would... That would be...
such a... a great a feeling...
to have that peace for a moment, that it's not there.
In my eyes, I... I lost...
my whole life.
Next time on Fear Thy Neighbor...
I really don't want to live anywhere else.
What's up Tyra?
Admit it! You did this!
It tends to wear on you.
He's unhinged.
She was terrified.
I've had it with you.
If you keep pushing someone...
Turn it down!
Coward!
...eventually, they might push back.
[two gun blasts] [scream]