Regular visitors to a Hillsborough County dog park are concerned the sheriff’s office has not filed charges against a man who fatally shot their friend last Friday.
They are now sharing videos their friend made hours before the shooting.
The I-Team spoke to them about encounters they witnessed before last Friday’s tragic event.
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“You’re gonna die”
“This is part of my video diary that I’m sending to you because the police told me to do this. I’m trying not to call the police,” Walter Lay said in a video he sent to his friend the day before his death.
Lay, 52, had been complaining to his friends about harassment from another dog owner at West Dog Park for months. That other person was Gerald Declan Radford, who goes by the nickname “Dec.”
“It’s just been escalating and escalating over nothing,” said Albert Darlington, another frequent visitor to the park.