Updated at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday: Revised to include victim's name.

Danny Silvers was notorious on his Cedar Hill block long before a neighborhood feud ended in bloodshed Monday night.

Neighbors say the 68-year-old would try to catch troublemakers in the act by leaving his pickup unlocked and his surveillance cameras rolling, just to see if anyone would walk over.

Danny Howard Silvers (Cedar Hill police)

"He had issues with everybody on this street," said Quiness Durham, a barber who lives in the neighborhood.

On Monday, after an argument with some of his neighbors, Silvers allegedly told Durham that he was going to be on TV.

"He said things were going to escalate," Durham said, "and that he was going to be on the news that night."

Police later found one of Silvers' neighbors, 60-year-old Jeri Lee Edwards, fatally shot and two others critically wounded.

The shooting

Silvers has a long history of run-ins with authorities. He's been convicted of aggravated assault of a police officer, driving while intoxicated and failure to stop and render aid, court records show.

He also admitted pointing a shotgun at another neighbor in 2010.

Durham said he was outside playing football when police arrived the first time Monday night. They were investigating a report of an altercation between Silvers and his neighbors.

After police left, Silvers told Durham that his next-door neighbors had said something they shouldn't have, Durham said.

He said Silvers often shared a beer with his neighbors, but that friendship soured Monday.

When police returned about 8 p.m., they found Edwards dead and two men shot.

A makeshift memorial sprang up next to the Cedar Hill home where the shooting took place Monday night. (Kyle Martin / Staff)

The two wounded men were taken to area hospitals. Both were in critical condition Tuesday and have been unable to tell detectives what led to the shooting.

Silvers was arrested and taken to the DeSoto jail. A weapon was recovered at the scene, police said.

Blood still covered the patchy grass in front of the house Tuesday. Neighbors left flowers and balloons in the yard, next to the dried blood.

Past incidents

Court records show Silvers threatened a different set of neighbors in 2010, pointing a shotgun at them and using a racial slur to describe them.

A neighbor and his niece were working on a car outside when they noticed Silvers pointing something at them.

At first, they thought Silvers was staring at them through a telescope, something he'd done before, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. But when they looked again, they realized he had a weapon, they told police.

Silvers and the neighbors had gotten into "verbal exchanges" before, the affidavit said.

Police later found him at his home with a loaded shotgun.

"I'll get those [N-words] when I get out," he told officers, according to his arrest affidavit. "You all will need to bring the paddy wagon."

Silvers was sentenced to two years of probation after pleading guilty to deadly conduct, a misdemeanor.