18-Year-Long Neighbor Dispute Results in Murder

追加: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]What these two men don't know is this might be the last day one of them is seen alive.

[00:00:03]>> What's going on today?

[00:00:04]>> I parked my mower over on my property right there in the corner. Still there and uh they're claiming that it's theirs.

[00:00:12]>> What's going on, guys?

[00:00:14]>> Back at it with him again.

[00:00:15]>> What's that?

[00:00:16]>> Back with him again. Argue with him again.

[00:00:18]>> What happened?

[00:00:19]>> He came approached us.

[00:00:23]>> Whose lawn mower is that right there?

[00:00:24]>> That's his lawn mower. He brought it over there because he said that's his property.

[00:00:29]>> Okay. And then he got up in my face and said, "Now I'm in your face. What are you going to do about it?" Threatened to kick my ass.

[00:00:36]>> Okay.

[00:00:36]>> So anyway, he um come out there and he he hates my son. He starts saying stuff and so my son said, "What are you talking about?" And he come over he come over here and he pull that steak. He got three crosses on his >> Right. Right. So he pulled that up out the ground and and my son took it away from him and then my son rushed down got a brick and hit him on the head with >> Yeah. Okay. He came to me going bust me on the head with this. So I had to defend myself.

[00:01:08]>> He hit me with a brick.

[00:01:10]>> Did you pick up a stick?

[00:01:11]>> I did.

[00:01:12]>> Did you swing at him?

[00:01:14]>> No.

[00:01:14]>> Did you threaten him with the stick?

[00:01:16]>> I told told him to stay away from me.

[00:01:19]>> And then what happened?

[00:01:20]>> And then he kept on coming towards me.

[00:01:22]>> Okay. And and I I touched him with the stick. I did a stick.

[00:01:26]>> You touched him with the stick and then he hit you.

[00:01:28]>> No, he hit me and then I touched him with a stick.

[00:01:32]>> Where did you get the brick from?

[00:01:37]>> Is that what's that right there?

[00:01:38]>> Yeah.

[00:01:38]>> All right. Hold on. Let me take a look at There's the brick. Whose hat is that?

[00:01:42]Whose hat is this?

[00:01:43]>> That's his hat.

[00:01:45]>> He was on our property right here. This our property. He came over here and swung at me and hit my mom over here with this with this here. Did a brick right there. He came over here. He was going to swing at my mom, too. He tried to hit my mom here. So, I had to defend my mom. She 80 something years old.

[00:01:58]That's what made me I had to react quick. And he said he's going to get his gun.

[00:02:01]>> Did you get knocked out at all when you got hit? No.

[00:02:04]>> Did you fall on the ground? You got trash all over you.

[00:02:08]>> So, we're obviously going to suggest that you go to the hospital.

[00:02:11]>> Did you see it happen, ma'am?

[00:02:13]>> I didn't see it. No.

[00:02:14]>> Is this your husband?

[00:02:16]>> Yes.

[00:02:16]>> What's his name?

[00:02:18]>> Damon. D A M O N. Was he sitting was he sitting on the tractor?

[00:02:22]>> No, he just parked it there.

[00:02:23]>> And then where'd he go when he sat up?

[00:02:24]>> He sat in the chair over there. My mom came out and said, "You can't be parking your tractors and stuff on our property." He said, "F you."

[00:02:30]>> That right there.

[00:02:31]>> Yeah. He said, "You I'll do whatever I want to do." You know what I'm saying?

[00:02:34]>> Well, it to me that looks like it's on his property.

[00:02:40]>> No, it's not.

[00:02:41]>> Can we take a peek at the cameras? Are >> they only >> Can you show me the cameras?

[00:02:51]Uh, >> can you make it go back further than 10:30?

[00:02:56]>> It's brand new for me, >> so I'm having trouble.

[00:03:00]>> He came out here and pulled the steak out and tried to bust my mom over here.

[00:03:04]>> He pulled the steak off the ground and my mom >> here. Give me that.

[00:03:08]>> So, what what is a person if it was your mom?

[00:03:11]>> The altercation The altercation took place right here.

[00:03:14]>> Yeah. Where the brick is right here. He came over here said, "F you." And he pulled that steak out and came at my >> How does his How did his hat get right there cuz he ran back going to get his gun.

[00:03:25]>> He said, "I'm going to get my gun."

[00:03:28]>> Oh, what a mess. Mr. Wilmington, >> big man. He's an expert on this. You want him to take a look right here?

[00:03:34]>> Yeah, sure.

[00:03:34]>> All right. So, he's coming.

[00:03:36]>> There he's coming over.

[00:03:38]>> Yep.

[00:03:39]>> What was he saying to you here?

[00:03:41]>> He said he's going to burn my tractor up.

[00:03:43]>> So, why is he on your property? I because he she says it's her property and I showed him the line where I've been cutting.

[00:03:52]>> Yeah, I saw that.

[00:03:53]>> Which is which is the the the property line.

[00:03:57]>> Okay.

[00:03:57]>> I came out over here and he and now he's he and he gets in my face.

[00:04:08]>> Mhm.

[00:04:09]>> He says, "Now I'm in your face. What are you going to do about it?" and I pushed him away. Oh, >> let me go grab the brick. That's that's when he said that. And that's when I walked over and got the one of my crosses to protect myself from his brick.

[00:04:27]>> So, he's coming back with the brick.

[00:04:28]>> Yep.

[00:04:30]>> She's trying to stop him.

[00:04:33]>> Looks like Andy's going to jail today.

[00:04:39]>> Yeah.

[00:04:39]>> Yeah. And that's where he hit me. I I guess I did fall.

[00:04:43]>> Oh, then he takes Look, look, look, look. Then he takes the >> Oh, trying to hit me again.

[00:04:49]>> Sir, we need to take you down. You You're on blood thinner, so >> it could get worse. So, if you want to come with us, we'll let you walk out there and uh you >> can you come over here a second?

[00:05:01]>> Just a second.

[00:05:02]>> Yeah. I'm just going to take a quick picture. Just one second.

[00:05:05]>> He said just one second. Just one minute.

[00:05:07]>> You can count it down.

[00:05:09]Can >> I see your There you go. Let me see. Is your hand scraped up at all? No, >> I don't think so. It's just here in here.

[00:05:19]>> Sir, is it okay if Captain Smallfield keeps messing with this while we take you out there and run you down? I'd like to get going here. Just as soon as I get your >> Okay.

[00:05:29]>> You might need a stitch. Make sure that that you don't have any extra bleeding going in your in your head there with your life. Okay. The officer who was investigating Anthony, the next door neighbor who threw the brick, now enters the victim's house right when the other officers finish watching the surveillance footage.

[00:05:44]>> Hello.

[00:05:45]>> Are the officers in here?

[00:05:46]>> Yes, they're to the right.

[00:05:48]>> Okay.

[00:05:49]>> Which is which is the the the property line.

[00:05:52]>> Yeah.

[00:05:53]>> And that's where he hit me. I >> That's pretty damning evidence.

[00:05:58]>> He's writing a statement for me right now.

[00:06:01]>> That's awesome. Oh, I know. I mean, because without that Yeah. the problems we've had with these two, >> right?

[00:06:13]>> Let me see what you got there, Anthony.

[00:06:15]>> Yeah.

[00:06:15]>> Okay. All right. Hold on.

[00:06:18]Okay. I'm going to stop you right there.

[00:06:20]All right. Because at this point, you got the right to remain silent. Go and stand up, Anthony, and put your arm on your back. Anything on you I should know about? Anything?

[00:06:30]No.

[00:06:31]>> Okay. You're under arrest for felonious assault. What?

[00:06:35]>> Yes, the video. The >> What about here?

[00:06:38]>> Okay, we we we watched the video. All right. Everything is on video from start to finish. And after watching that video, it is very clear that your son is the primary aggressor in this incident.

[00:06:50]All right. Um, do you want me to your mom to have this dollar? Cuz he'll just >> could have definitely been handled a different way.

[00:06:56]>> All right. Here you go.

[00:06:57]>> Salt.

[00:06:58]>> Yeah.

[00:06:58]>> It's with a It's with a brute. Well, the way he char with that cross, >> you go down to the jail. You go in front of a judge and it'll get worked through.

[00:07:08]He's got cameras pointing to the whole incident from start to finish and it's clear.

[00:07:12]>> So, I got to do time for this >> necessarily.

[00:07:14]>> We're We're not the judge and the jury.

[00:07:16]We're just We're just merely >> So, I got to go to court tomorrow.

[00:07:19]>> Eventually, you probably see a judge.

[00:07:21]Yeah.

[00:07:21]>> Let's go over here to my truck.

[00:07:22]>> A felony?

[00:07:23]>> Yeah. When you hit somebody in the head with a brick, Anthony, >> my whole career messed up now. Like I said, you're being charged with a felony, but you know, nothing is until you're found guilty of something. You know what I mean? Innocent until proven guilty. You've heard that before, right?

[00:07:35]>> Yeah.

[00:07:36]>> Okay. Why don't you put your Are you going to >> I can't even get out there, man.

[00:07:38]>> Put that one leg up in there first.

[00:07:40]>> Are you serious?

[00:07:41]>> Throw that right leg up in there.

[00:07:43]>> My life, man. I can't even be if confined to nothing.

[00:07:48]I can't do it, man. Can you hold the window down or something?

[00:07:50]>> What's that? I'm going to open that window up and turn the air on.

[00:07:54]>> This hurt, man.

[00:07:56]>> All right. All right, I'm going to go grab them right now.

[00:08:04]All right, let's go get these cuffs off.

[00:08:09]All right, come on. We're going to go up the steps over here. All right, go on in there. In and to the left. Stay right there. All right, so I'm going to read your rights to you. You have the right to remain silent. You can decide at any time to exercise those rights, not answer any questions, and make any statements. So, what's going to happen here today is that you're you're currently under arrest for felonious assault. And the reason that you are the one that's under arrest is that he had video and it captured the entire incident from start to finish. You told me that the incident occurred where the brick was laying, which is on your property in my interpretation. That is not where the incident occurred.

[00:08:41]Everything occurred on his property. It shows you approaching him on his property, you going straight up and getting in his face, and then then it shows him pushing you off of him. All right. after you're inches from his face and you run over and grab the brick, he grabs the cross and that's when you know it shows you striking him in the head with that brick, knocking him down where his hat was in his prop on his property.

[00:09:04]So that's why you're here. So what's going to happen is you're being charged with felonious assault. All right.

[00:09:08]Anytime you throw a brick at somebody, that's pretty serious. He could have been, you know, seriously hurt. All right. Luckily, it's looks like a cut to his head. It's, you know, he's going down the hospital because he's still bleeding. You'll be charged with 20s assault. You'll be going out to the county today. Most likely you'll be arraigned on that charge tomorrow.

[00:09:23]Regarding the the facts that I stated to you, is there anything that that you want to say about it?

[00:09:30]>> Wish I could get out today, man.

[00:09:33]>> I mean, regarding the incident, is there am I wrong in how I described what happened after watching the video?

[00:09:40]>> 423. Go ahead.

[00:09:45]I mean, in looking at the video, and obviously I don't have audio or whatever, but he did nothing wrong. That lawn mower is parked on his property.

[00:09:54]So, all right, I do have to shut this door. I'll be with you in a little bit.

[00:09:57]All right, I got some paperwork to do.

[00:10:01]The events in the body cam footage took place in August of 2021 in Revena, Ohio.

[00:10:06]Later that same month, the victim who was hit in the head with a brick, 77year-old Damon, later passed away at the hospital due to his head injury. The suspect, 60-year-old Anthony Wilmington, was then indicted by the Portage County Grand Jury on the charges of felonious assault, a secondderee felony, murder, an unclassified felony, and tampering with evidence, a thirdderee felony. He initially appeared to court with an attorney and pleaded not guilty.

[00:10:27]However, he subsequently took a plea deal, pleading guilty to felonious assault and tampering with evidence in exchange for the murder charge to be dismissed. Wilmington was then sentenced to 9 to 10 and a half years in prison.

[00:10:37]Later in 2022, Wilmington filed an appeal claiming that he received ineffective assistance from his attorney that resulted in him pleading guilty and being sentenced to a lengthy prison term. However, his appeal was denied after it was determined that his guilty pleas were knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily made. Wilmington is currently being held at the North Central Correctional Complex in Maran, Ohio, where he will be released in 2030 to 2032, depending on his behavior.

[00:10:59]>> Did you notice how fast he started talking? because that tells you more than the assault itself. When he's being interviewed, he volunteers information.

[00:11:05]Pretty much trying to shape the story before the officer can even ask questions. When someone rushes to control the narrative like that, it's usually because they already know the truth won't help them. And I've had neighbor issues myself bad enough that I had to move. And I can tell you that tension builds slow, quiet until one day it doesn't stay quiet anymore. Now, in Ohio, when someone causes a death while committing a violent felony, like a felonious assault, that's where a situation like this can turn into a murder charge. And what started as a property argument turned into a courtroom battle that he wasn't prepared for. Because once that victim dies, it's no longer about what you meant to do.

[00:11:33]It's about what you set in motion. And then listen to him talking about his career, saying he can't be confined.

[00:11:37]Now, one word about what he just did to that