Tony Moore built a house and moved in between Tammie Roberts and Roland Younce about 2 1/2 years ago, Roberts said.
Moore's mother-in-law, Pat Jones, said Moore bought his 2-acre homesite from Younce and they were friends at one time.
About a year and a half ago, Moore's daughters walked next door with Younce's daughter to borrow a movie. That's when Younce's pit bull bit them, Jones said.
The relationship between the men deteriorated when Moore sued Younce for the medical bills and lost.
Roberts' boyfriend, John Stallings, said the dog wasn't full-grown when it bit the girls and the bite wasn't severe, but did leave a scar.
He said it's a sweet animal.
"I pet that dog last night," he said. "It rolled over on its back. It had its rabies tag on it."
Roberts said she saw her neighbors shouting and swearing in their yards regularly and destroying each other's property.
Moore and Younce tore each other's mailboxes down and when Younce replaced his with a stone and brick mailbox, Moore glued its door shut with epoxy, Roberts said.
She also said Wednesday night wasn't the first time she'd heard gunshots from her neighbors during their disputes. They'd fired into the air or at the ground before.
Stallings said he'd asked Moore and Younce to stop shooting during arguments because he was worried for his family's safety and concerned about the possibility of a stray bullet ripping through their house.
"We've seen so much of this we really didn't think it was going to go that far last night," Roberts said as she held her 4-year-old daughter. "It was really scary for all of us."
"This is a shame because it really could have been stopped," she said.
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