Florida police are investigating a fatal Thanksgiving day shooting that left a 72-year-old man dead in Lauderdale Lakes.
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called to the scene in the gated community at about 3:30 p.m. on Thursday and found Hureleyon McLean suffering from a gunshot wound. Paramedics pronounced him dead on the scene.
Deputies detained the shooter, a neighbor who remained on the scene and cooperated with investigators. He was brought to police headquarters, where he told detectives he shot McLean in self-defense.
McLean’s wife, however, told WSVN that the shooter complained to that their music was too loud, and her husband went out to talk with him about it. Minutes later, Rose McLean said, she heard gunshots.
“I heard the gunshot, ‘boom,’ and I just fly to the door,” Rose McLean said. “ I see my husband lying face down in the blood.”
Rose McLean also told the station that her husband had no weapons and did not threaten the neighbor, who told her “to shut my mouth, or he would shoot me too.”
The sheriff’s office said it would had over the case file to the Broward County State Attorney’s Office to determine if charges will be filed.
Since no charges have been filed, the sheriff’s office did not release the killer’s name.
Family members said McLean was a beloved father and grandfather.
