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Men fatally shoot each other over repair issue

Posted: Mon 2:06 PM, Apr 23, 2012

MARTIN, Tenn. (AP) -- Two West Tennessee man have died in an argument over a garden tiller at a repair shop.

WCMT radio in Martin reported the death over the weekend of 68-year-old Oren Willis.

Weakley County Sheriff's deputies said Roy McAlpin and Willis, who was one his customers, shot each other Friday.

McAlpin was pronounced dead at his shop near Palmersville. Willis was taken to Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, where he died on Saturday.

Investigators said the men argued after Willis didn't return to pick up his repaired tiller and McAlpin sold it to someone else.


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