Sheriff: Alabama man, son kill each other in spat over dog
Updated: Dec. 21, 2020 at 10:14 PM CST
CHATOM, Ala. (AP) - Authorities say an Alabama man and his son have killed each other in a dispute over a dog.
Washington County Sheriff Richard Stringer says 60-year-old Kelvin James Coker discovered his dog had been shot on Saturday.
The man then drove to the home of his son, 32-year-old Kelvin Nicholas Coker, who claimed to have killed the animal.
The sheriff says the older man shot first and then the son returned fire with a shotgun.
Both men died from their wounds.
The sheriff calls the family “very dysfunctional.”
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