Mike and Patricia Smith, who live across the street from Dykes and whose two children were on the bus when the shooting happened, said their youngsters had a run-in with him about 10 months ago.
My bulldogs got loose and went over there, Patricia Smith said. The children went to get them. He threatened to shoot them if they came back.
Hes very paranoid, her husband said. He goes around in his yard at night with a flashlight and shotgun.
Everybody up the hill tried to avoid him, he said...
Another neighbor, Ronda Wilbur, said Dykes beat her 120-pound dog with a lead pipe for coming onto his side of the dirt road. The dog died a week later.
He said his only regret was he didnt beat him to death all the way, Wilbur said. She called animal control, who came out and talked to Dykes, but nothing else happened. If a man can kill a dog, and beat it with a lead pipe and brag about it, its nothing until its going to be people.
Dykes had been scheduled to appear in court Wednesday to face a charge of menacing some neighbors as they drove by his house weeks ago. Claudia Davis said he yelled and fired shots at her, her son and her baby grandson over damage Dykes claimed their pickup truck did to a makeshift speed bump in the dirt road. No one was hurt.
Before this happened, I would see him at several places and he would just stare a hole through me, Davis said. On Monday I saw him at a laundromat and he seen me when I was getting in my truck, and he just stared and stared and stared at me.
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