Austin man killed by police after city's attempt to cut his grass leads to standoff, house fire

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14. The neighbors did try:

The suspect's next-door neighbor said he talked to him months at a time and in the 9 years he’s lived next to him, the lawn and shrubs were almost always overgrown.

“It wouldn’t be manicured. Sometimes he’d go a long time without mowing. The people I talked with, they had interaction with him over the last couple of years trying to get him to mow the yard,” said the suspect’s next-door neighbor.

We heard from one neighbor who said she jumped in to help periodically throughout the years.

“The day before I had come by and mowed part of his yard. Just doing an act of kindness and it’s about to be Halloween, so I mowed part of it and didn’t know the city was going to be sending out people the next day,” said a neighbor. "They had a lawn mowing service and apparently they had a warrant to do his yard,” said a neighbor.

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/austin-code-enforcement-elaborates-on-violation-following-officer-involved-shooting