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Update: Three Dead in Polk County Shooting

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Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2012 · News & Politics

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Updated Story By Jerry Askin We now know the names of the three people shot and killed yesterday outside their home in Polk County. Neighbors tell us a family member shot and killed Willard Waters, Doug Waters, and Wanda Waters.We spoke to the victims cousin who says the shooting happened after a large family argument over property. He says he's not surprised because the family has been arguing about it for months.  Even neighbors say they're not surprised.Albert Allen heard the gunshots Friday. Those gunshots ended up killing three people. Allen says those people were his first cousins - a wonderful family of three."It was Willard Waters, Wanda Waters, and Doug Waters who were shot and killed," says Allen.The shooting happened outside of a home on George Road in Copper Hill. Allen and several other neighbors we talked to today suspects one person is responsible. And they say it's a family member."Steven Waters... They say shot all three of them," says Allen.The Waters' family owns property along George Road. We're told a huge family argument over land is what caused the shooting. Allen knows all too well about it. "When their parents died, they left the land - and they could never get together on the line there... And they have been fussing over it...Even threatening each other," says Allen.Neighbors we talked to today say it's not the first time police have been called out to the Waters home. A situation Allen says ended horribly."It just made me sick," says Allen.The investigation is being conducted by the TBI and the Polk County Sheriff's office. We'll bring you all anything new as we get it.______________________________________________________________Previous StoryNewschannel 9 has confirmed three people are dead in a shooting in Polk County.  According to Kristen Helm, with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, agents were on the scene on Waters Road in the Gr

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