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Police say Maliszewski told dispatch the neighbor had threatened him with a bat, and arriving officers found Yazzie lying in his front yard with a bullet hole between the eyes. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Yazzie’s fiancee told police the couple were painting their home, which had no running water, when she went to Maliszewski to ask if they could have some water.

Police say the fiancee told them that when Maliszewski answered the door, he “began yelling racial slurs, told her to leave his property and stated he was going to get his gun.”

According to the complaint, the fiancee told Yazzie, who became upset, and he confronted Maliszewski from his front yard, asking his fiancee to “get his stick and call the police.”

The fiancee told police she got the stick, a bat with a knife duct-taped to one end, and put it on the porch before grabbing her phone to call police.

Police say she heard a gunshot and came outside to find Yazzie lying in their front yard with a wound to his head.

Security camera footage from a neighboring home showed Maliszewski shoot an unarmed Yazzie as he stood in his own yard and never tried to come onto Maliszewski’s property, according to the complaint.

Maliszewski was taken to a hospital after complaining of chest pains after his arrest.