MAN, STEPFATHER FEUDED BEFORE SATURDAY SHOOTING

SIKESTON, Mo. -- A Sikeston man and his stepfather had been feuding for some time before the fatal shooting of the stepfather Saturday afternoon, police said.

Police Lt. Dan Armour said Albert Lott, 32, and his stepfather, Theodore Daniel, 36, both of Sikeston, had been engaged in domestic disputes before, including some that required police intervention.

Lott has been charged with first-degree murder in the Saturday afternoon shooting death of Daniel.

Armour said Lott had made incriminating statements but declined to specify what Lott said.

Sikeston police responded to a 911 hang-up call at 4:45 p.m. on Saturday and traced the call to 135 Fifth St.

An officer was sent to investigate the incident at the white, one-story house with an ornamental windmill in the front yard.

Court records said Sikeston police officer Rhonda Elder discovered Daniel's body face down on the bedroom floor of the house, dead with a single gunshot wound to the head.

Records said Daniel's wife told the officer that Lott -- also present at the scene -- had assaulted her husband about 30 minutes before.

Lott was arrested, and a handgun was reportedly seized as evidence.

Neighbor Tom Boulnois said he saw Lott in an agitated state outside the house on Saturday afternoon.

"I saw him come out," Boulnois said. "He couldn't sit still. I'd seen him upset before. He couldn't sit still when he was upset."

Boulnois, 30, a mechanic, said he did not know where Lott worked, but said Daniel was on disability from a previous job as a garbage man.

Lott is being held without bond in the Butler County Jail, which houses the inmate overflow from Scott County.