USA: 3 shot dead in fireworks noise dispute

July 2007
Philadelphia Daily News
The Beacon Journal

CLEVELAND - A neighbor apparently angry about fireworks at a noisy Fourth of July party shot three people to death early yesterday and wounded two others, police said.

Terrance Hough Jr., a 35-year-old off-duty firefighter, was arrested in connection with the shootings, police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said.

Police had received a number of complaints in recent years about loud parties, fireworks and drag racing connected to the house where the victims were shot, Stacho said.

The neighbors were throwing a party when two men and a woman, all in their 20s, were shot to death shortly after midnight, Stacho said ...

"There was no warning," Donny Walsh, 23, told The Plain Dealer. "There was nothing at all. There was no dispute."

Walsh said Hough walked out of his home with a black gun and said, "I bet you guys won't be doing this (expletive) again."

Police at the scene said the shooting about 12:10 a.m. Thursday apparently was prompted by anger over fireworks and a loud party at the house of Hough's neighbor.

Hough's wife, Regina, had called police several times between 2003 and 2005 complaining about loud noise, drugs, underage drinking and problems with neighbors, police reports show. Cleveland police visited several times.

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