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(118,379 posts)Marco della Cava, USA TODAY 6:16 p.m. EST November 28, 2015
... James Howie, who lives near one of two Dear-owned properties in remote North Carolina, was asked to do foundation work at a Dear shack in Black Mountain, about 15 miles west of Asheville. After accompanying Dear to the job site, he declined the offer of employment ...
A neighbor of Dear's Black Mountain property said she and her family "kept out of his way" when they would see their neighbor approaching along the area's unkept roads.
"He wouldn't really speak to anybody, he wouldn't wave," Mallory Nicoletti, 29, told the Citizen-Times.
Another neighbor, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisal, told the Washington Post that Dear "was the kind of person you had to watch out for. He was a very weird individual. Its hard to explain, but he had a weird look in his eye most of the time ...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/11/28/colorado-gunman-has-history-aggressive-behavior/76499022/