Father Of 3 Allegedly Killed By Neighbor During Dispute

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LOS ANGELES — A man was charged today with fatally shooting his Temple City neighbor this past Monday.

Massimo Barbagallo faces one count of murder.

Barbagallo pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Barbagallo was charged with shooting Christian Alarcon, a father of three, at close range during a dispute on July 15, the prosecutor said. Alarcon, 26, died as a result of his injuries.

KABC reported: “There was no violence, everything was like, ‘I’m going to call the police if you don’t remove the cameras, I’m going to call the police,’ and he shot him in the chest,” said the victim’s girlfriend Amy Giron.

Giron says their neighbor had been harassing them since they moved in four months ago.

Among the issues the neighbor complained about were music, noise and their pitbull named Blue.

The neighbor distributed flyers to other neighbors asking for video of the dog off his leash.

Giron says the Humane Society came to their home, requested they get a license for Blue but nothing more happened.

Earlier reports suggested the shooting was triggered by a dispute over the dog, but Giron says it was because the neighbor had recently installed cameras facing the inside of their home and backyard.

“I recorded a video of everything, and it wasn’t over a dog, it was over the fact that he was invading our privacy,” Giron said.

Alarcon, a truck driver with an early shift, had been napping Monday afternoon when Giron mentioned the cameras to him. She says he walked outside to ask the neighbor to the remove the cameras and within minutes the gun went off.

“All my boyfriend did was tell him in a friendly way, ‘Can you please remove the camera that’s facing our window and the back of our yard?’ And it just led to something else,” Giron said.

Bail is set at $3 million. Barbagallo faces a possible maximum sentence of life in state prison.

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