According to Monroe County Coroner Bob Allen two people are dead in a shooting this evening in Ross Township.

It appears to have been this guy:

Ross Township hopes to buy a Flyte Road property, deemed an eyesore and up for sheriff’s sale next month, to clean it up and remove what it calls a stream obstruction.

Ruling in the township’s favor, Monroe County Court last August ordered Rockne Newell, 59, to vacate and never again occupy or use the property, unless he has the proper permits to do so.

The township’s efforts to take over the land he’s owned since 1990 are the latest development in an 18-year battle against Newell.

“This is total (horse excrement),” said Newell, who has been living out of his 1984 Fiero and in abandoned buildings since being ordered to vacate.

“They have no right to kick me off my property. They call my property an ‘eyesore.’ When I bought it, it was one of only three properties on the entire road that didn’t have what they call ‘junk.’”

Unkempt
The unmown property now has the largest number of visibly cluttered items, including tires, cinderblocks and piles of lumber, on Flyte Road.

Unemployed for years due to an injury from a crash, Newell said he collects and uses items other people throw away, which is cheaper than buying items in stores, and scraps and sells what he doesn’t use.

“I don’t mow the property because I don’t like lawns,” said Newell, who has been struggling to pay property and school taxes after the mortgage was paid up years ago. “I prefer trees. Trees make the property less likely to flood when there’s heavy rain.”

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As expected, someone put off of his land.