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Loses Zoning Fight, Shoots His NeighborsDECATUR, Ga, fUFI)—Police said a truck driver, enraged because his wife lost a! rezoning fight to operate a j beauty parlor in their home,!ishot two ot his neighbors to; death Tuesday and wounded! another.The man, Bobbv Wavne Iv O 'Mendenhall, 37, was subdued by j three other neighbors and j calmly surrendered to officers, i“He said he knew he was in trouble and he was going to shoot himself,” sail E. J. Parker. “We finally got the gun away from him and we sat him j down on the curb til! the police : came.”Mendenhall was charged with murder in the deaths of, Christian Louis Denk. 69, and j his wife, Annie Lou Denk, 03, i and with aggravated assault in 1 the wounding of William II.; Beebe, 39.The tragedy climaxed a' months-long controversy over efforts by Mrs. Mendenhall to; operate a home beauty shop in ! the neighborhood of §40,0(501 homes. Beebe and the Denks | had led the opposition to the proposed shop.“He was the nicest fellow.” said Parker of Mendenhall. “He [ just went flip, that’s all.”
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Traverse City Record Eagle
Traverse City, Michigan, US
Wed, Dec 15, 1971
Page 21
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