Skateboard sets off deadly confrontation

WHERE A MAN IS FOUND SHOT TO DEATH WE VE LEARNED IT MAY HAVE STARTED WITH A FIGHT OVER A SKATEBOARD JULIE FERTIG IS LIVE IN OUR ROSWELL BUREAU WITH THE LATEST ON THE ALAMOGORDO MURDER POLICE HAVE CHARGED 49-YEAR- OLD TIM HARDEGREE WITH MURDERING JAMES ALLEN A NEIGHBOR WHO LIVED IN THE SAME APARTMENT BUILDING WITH THE MEN TELLS US THE TWO HAD PREVIOUS CONFRONTATIONS ACCORDING TO THE NEIGHBOR A SKATEBOARD STARTED LAST NIGHT S PROBLEM HARDEGREE WASN T HAPPY ALLEN S SON WAS PLAYING IN FRONT OF HIS HOME AND ASKED THE BOY TO GET HIS DAD WHEN ALLEN CAME OVER THE NEIGHBOR TELLS US HARDAGREE HAD A GUN AND STARTED SHOOTING ALLEN WHEN HIS SON TRIED TO STEP IN HARDAGREE ALLEGEDLY HIT HIM WITH THE GUN WHEN ALLEN S GIRLFRIEND TRIED STOPING THE RAMPAGE THE NEIGHBOR SAYS HARDAGREE ALSO SHOT HER I was inside when it happened With my two year old We threw ourselves to the ground when we hears It was just awful It was the ugliest thing we ve seen TODAY YOU CAN STILL SEE BLOOD IN THE STREET AND ON A CAR POLICE SAY ALLEN WAS STILL ALIVE WHEN THEY ARRIVED ON SCENE BUT HE DIED AT THE HOSPITAL LAST NIGHT THE OTHER VICTIM HAS BEEN TREATED AND RELEASED REPORTING IN ROSWELL JULIE