Dog owner killed after argument over letting dog run around

Dog owner called police after shooting neighbor: 'He doesn't look well. Send the ambulances!'
Detroit Free Press
By L.L. Brasier
Staff Writer
April 16, 2014

The 911 call came in shortly before 10 p.m. that cold snowy night last December.

“Somebody help!” the man shouted to the operator. “There’s been a shooting. Send them quick. Call them quick...he’s on the ground.”

The man making the call, Charles Simkins, 28, had just shot his neighbor, Edwin Criswell, 45, in the leg, following a dispute over Simkins’ dog, which had been running their Walled Lake neighborhood.

Criswell eventually bled to death on his front porch.

The seven-minute tape was played in open court this afternoon, as Simkins, dressed in orange jail garb and shackled at the waist, sat and listened at the defense table.

The preliminary examination, before Novi District Judge Dennis Powers, will resume next Wednesday to determine whether there is enough evidence to send Simkins, an Iraq war vet, to trial. He is charged with open murder.

Criswell complained about the dog, and the two began to fight, Simkins hitting Criswell, and knocking him to the ground.
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