SF Homicide Caught by Home Cameras

     SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Video cameras set up to keep watch over
a Sioux Falls man's home captured much of the dispute that ended
with his shooting death, city police said.
     Bruce Walters, 51, died on his porch Sunday after police say a
neighbor repeatedly shot him. The two men were embroiled in a
longstanding dispute that led to police being called to their
addresses more than a dozen times this year.
     Police spokesman Sam Clemens said Walters' video surveillance
system captured most of his fight with Peter Deng Mayen, 29, who is
charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death.
     "They didn't catch all of it," Clemens said of the cameras.
"But they caught most of it - enough that when detectives reviewed
it, they could see a lot of what happened."
     Walters apparently installed the cameras, at least in part,
because of the ongoing dispute with his neighbor, Clemens said. He
had several cameras outside that fed footage to a recorder inside.
The fatal encounter was captured by one camera, he said.
     Mayen's wife told reporters after a Monday court hearing that
Walters had harassed her whole family - including her four children
- for months. Neighbors, however, said the Mayens egged on the
dispute.
     Police are still piecing together the feud that led to Walters'
death. Officers responded this year to 17 calls to either Mayen or
Walters' addresses. Those calls could have been placed by the men
and their families, or they could have been called in by neighbors
directing officers to the men's homes, Clemens said.
     Most of the complaints appeared typical of squabbles between
neighbors. Just one resulted in a citation - against Mayen for
playing music too loudly past midnight in his home. Police who
responded said they could hear the music a half-block away.
     Otherwise, nothing happened that required police intervention,
Clemens said.
     "We tell people having problems with their neighbors to just
avoid them, don't have anything to do with them," Clemens said.
"We can't force people to move."
     Mayen is jailed on $1 million cash bond. Walters' death was the
city's fifth homicide this year.