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Joseph Campbell, who is on trial for deliberate homicide, testified he was held at gunpoint by an erratic and enraged neighbor who repeatedly cocked his .357 pistol. Basically all he could see was the barrel of the gun, he said.

"I've got to draw my gun or I'm not going to get out of this alive," Campbell recalled thinking on Oct. 18, 2013, during his confrontation with Timothy Newman outside of Augusta.

"I was trying to stay alive," Campbell told jurors in the 13th day of testimony.

"It was him or me, and I shot him. I did," he said.

Just before succumbing to his wounds from two gunshots at close range, Newman grinned, Campbell testified. He then said, "Joe, you shouldn't have done that," according to Campbell.

"The choice was to die up there on the hill. I wasn't ready to do that," he said.

The contention between Campbell and Newman, who were once friends, had grown so heated that Campbell said he began adjusting his schedule to avoid Newman, who had taken to cutting locks to gain access to nearby land.