Wealthy recruitment consultant shoots dead both his neighbors on either side of his house 'in row over trees in his backyard' then turns gun on himself

An affluent cul-de-sac outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, has been left reeling after a poetry-loving 50-year-old shot dead his neighbors on Friday allegedly over a dispute over trees in his backyard. Anthony Charles Hardy opened fire on his neighbors Daniel Thomas Kirchner, 42, and Gary Wade Stocks, 64, in the backyard of Kirchner's home, in front of Kirchner's wife and two young daughters and then later shot himself dead following a standoff with Cabarrus County SWAT team members stationed outside his own home. Despite being described as a 'gentle spirit' by those who knew him, Hardy, who lived alone, had a history of aggressive behavior towards his neighbors and spent one year on probation for assaulting one resident prior to Kirchner or Stocks taking up residence.

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