Missouri neighbor accused of killing mother and teen daughter after confronting family over dispute

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A parent and her teenage girl successful Missouri were changeable dormant wrong their ain location by a neighbour who came implicit to kick astir a "dispute," constabulary said.

Robert Winkelman, 73, walked down the thoroughfare to his neighbor's House Springs, Missouri, location and confronted 38-year-old Jessica Lashly astir what was going connected astatine her location connected July 25, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said. When Lashly responded, Winkelman pulled retired a weapon and changeable her successful the head.

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Jessica Lashly, 38, and her 17-year-old daughter, Jersey Greer, were some fatally changeable wrong their House Springs, Missouri, home. (Midlawn Funeral Home & Memorial Gardens)

When the victim's 17-year-old daughter, Jersey Greer, tried to assistance her mother, Winkelman changeable her successful the caput arsenic well, the sheriff's bureau said. A 3rd idiosyncratic was chased by Winkelman arsenic helium was equipped with a gun, but wasn't shot. Both Lashly and Greer died days aboriginal astatine a section hospital.

When deputies arrived astatine Winkelman's location and moved to face him, helium turned the weapon connected himself.

He died astatine a section infirmary connected Aug. 2, according to investigators, who said helium would person been charged with 2 counts of first-degree execution and 2 counts of equipped transgression action.

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According to reports, investigators said that Winkelman initially went to Lashly's location to kick astir noise. A spokesperson for the sheriff's bureau characterized the incidental to Fox News Digital arsenic a "dispute betwixt neighbors."

Investigators learned that Winkelman had "ongoing frustrations" with activities astatine Lashly's home.

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Robert Winkelman, 73, walked to his neighbor's location and opened fire, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. He aboriginal died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. (Jefferson County Sheriff's Office)

Justice Greer, the teenage victim's duplicate sister, told KSDK, "She was virtually conscionable the funniest idiosyncratic ever."

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"She could marque anybody laugh. She was truly supportive astir thing and everything. She could ever archer erstwhile idiosyncratic was bittersweet oregon needed uplifting, and she was ever the 1 to bash it," Justice Greer said.

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"Jersey's past moments, she was trying to prevention my mom. It conscionable shows however brave she is, and I anticipation I tin beryllium fractional arsenic brave arsenic she is," she added.

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Justice Greer said Lashly was a azygous parent who did everything she could to enactment her daughters.

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The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said Winkelman would person faced 2 counts of first-degree execution and 2 counts of equipped transgression action. (Jefferson County Sheriff's Office)

"It was ever conscionable america three," Justice said. "It's going to beryllium truly hard due to the fact that that's each I'm utilized to."

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Abby Feldmann, who coached lacrosse for some Justice and Jersey Greer, told KSDK that Jersey is idiosyncratic who tin "change your full position connected life."

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"There's not 1 idiosyncratic who would garbage to travel her," Feldmann said. "Everyone's down her. She's truly an astonishing girl."