Click the play button on the video window to the see the storyMESA, AZ -- A fight between two neighbors turned into a fatal shooting in the east Valley early Thursday.
Officers responded to a shooting near Dobson and Guadalupe roads at about 1 a.m.
When officers arrived at the scene, they discovered that a 51-year-old man had been shot.
Police said the victim, Benny O'Neal, was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
SEE PHOTOS FROM THE SCENE IN THE ATTACHED SLIDESHOWIt appears that this shooting was the result of a long-standing dispute between neighbors, according to police.
O'Neal reportedly went over to 62-year-old Rodney Hoyt's house and confronted him about loud noise.
That's when police say Hoyt shot O'Neal.
O'Neal's girlfriend, Karen Vinck, said she watched it all happen.
"I can't go to sleep, I'm afraid to," she said. "I don't want to relive watching him die all over again. I can't."
"It's taken part of my life, the best part of me," Vinck continued. "This man has taken the best part of who I am. This was a senseless shooting. He was the love of my life and I'm going to miss him every day for the rest of my life."
Hoyt was taken into custody without incident and was booked on one count of second-degree murder.
