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A long-standing beef between neighboring families exploded when a man was shot dead by his neighbor during a fight over a water sprinkler at a luxurious condominium in Costa Rica.
Otoniel Orozco, a 53-year-old father-of-five from Nicaragua, was shot at least 14 times by Eduardo Ramírez, 43, in front of their homes on Monday morning.
Tensions flared after Ramírez's wife stepped out of her residence to turn the sprinkler on that was on her property and challenged Orozo to turn it off.
The woman told Orozco, 'Here I am waiting for you to come and turn off the sprinkler, you fool.'
Orozco's wife subsequently stepped out of the apartment and told Ramírez's spouse, 'You also bother a lot,' and accused of envying her family.
Nicaragua native and father-of-five Otoniel Orozco (left) was shot dead by his neighbor Eduardo Ramírez (bottom right) moments after the two families argued over a sprinkler that was located on Ramírez's property in Escazú, Costa Ruci on Monday
Otoniel Orozco (left) was caught on camera punching his neighbor, Eduardo Ramírez (bottom right), in front of their homes in Costa Rica on Monday morning before Ramírez pulled out a gun and shot Orozco multiple times and killed him
A war of words ensue as both women continued to curse at each other.
Orozco and his wife can be seen approaching the couple as they kept arguing over the sprinkler.
Both women then came face-to-face before Orozco punched Ramírez, who responded by pulling a gun from under his shirt and shooting his neighbor.
He continued to fire his weapon while Orozco was lying on the ground. Ramírez's wife stepped in and grabbed him by the neck and pulled him away as Orozco's wife screamed in horror.
Ramírez's father told Costa Rican online news portal La Teja that the disagreement between both families stemmed from a construction that ruined the walls of his son's home.
'This situation is from four years ago, in which the deceased man began to build some bedrooms where he did not have to build them, then my son told him: 'Look, Don Otoniel, you are breaking my walls, my property,' Ramírez's father said. 'And the man went on a rampage and started treating him like a son of a *****. The problem began there.'
Eduardo Ramírez gunned down his neighbor Otoniel Orozco during a violent argument in front of their home in Escazú, Costa Rica on Monday. Orozco, a native of Nicaragua, was a married father-of-five
Eduardo Ramírez is pulled away by his wife after he shot and killed their neighbor, Otoniel Orozco, during a heated argument
Otoniel Orozco and his wife were reportedly harassed constantly by his neighbor, Eduardo Ramírez, who killed him Monday morning
Eduardo Ramírez with his wife and their son. Ramírez is being investigated for aggravated homicide in connection to the death of his neighbor, Otoniel Orozco, who was shot Monday. Ramírez's father said families had been at odds for four years after the Orozco's did construction in their home that damaged a wall in Ramírez's condo
He added that the families had argued during the early morning hours after the Orozcos repeatedly opened and shut the sliding windows on their balcony, which woke up his baby grandson.
'My son was beaten and as this problem accumulated, what happened happened, unfortunately,' Ramírez's father said.
Orozco's sister-in-law, Dayli Avendaño, told CR Hoy news outlet, that Ramírez had threatened the family on multiple occasions and that the police never responded to their reports.
'He always spied on my brother-in-law getting up and going out to the garage so he would start bothering him, he would insult him, he would start shutting the door at him,' she said. 'He would threaten my sister, he would start harassing the children, bothering them, provoking in 1,000 ways so that Otoniel will react.
Ramírez is being investigated for aggravated homicide and was placed in pre-trial detention for three months.
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