The Texan who claims SYG after killing someone because of noise had a history [View all]

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of aggressive behavior.

This is the guy who objected to the volume at his neighbor's party, so walked over there with a gun and a flashlight, ordered them to turn the music down, whined how fearful he was while he was on the phone to 911, and then shot three people, killing a teacher. Now he's on trial claiming "stand your ground" as a defense.

http://www.khou.com/news/Former-neighbors-union-Rodriguez-always-paranoid-157943785.html

“He was a nuisance that thought he pretty much ran the street in a way,” said Jamie Johnson, one of Rodriguez’s former neighbors. “He had us paranoid because he was paranoid. We didn’t know when he was going to go off.”

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The president of the Baytown Firefighters Union, who was asked not to go on camera by Harris County prosecutors because of the trial, told KHOU 11 News that Rodriguez was the first and only firefighter voted out of their union. The union felt he was divisive, prejudiced and always felt people were out to get him.

“He was paranoid to the point he thought somebody was going to do something to him,” Johnson said.

Johnson said Rodriguez often showed off his gun, argued with adults and children and had confrontations in his old neighborhood similar to what was caught on tape and showed in court Wednesday.

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