Maryland man dies after violent altercation with neighbors during dispute over dogs

A man in Montgomery County, Maryland is dead following a dispute with neighbors that relatives said turned violent. Marvin Guevara, 40, had gone next door to wrangle his dogs, who had escaped through a hole in his fence, when one of the residents of that property allegedly hit him on the back of the head following the argument. Guevara was taken to hospital, where he later passed away.

Nobody has been arrested or charged in the case yet, however, the Montgomery County Police Department has launched an investigation into the incident. Guevara died two weeks after the incident.



According to NBC Washington, the incident took place on June 14 on Bucklodge Road in Germantown, Maryland, a small town north of Washington, DC. That day, Guevara's two dogs had managed to get through a hole in his fence and enter his neighbors' property. Guevara chased them down a short time afterwards.

When the neighbors noticed he was on their land, they approached him. Guevara's daughter-in-law, Flor Flores, was there as well, and said that after he apologized and explained the situation, he was hit in the back of the head by a female neighbor.

“She went then and like slapped him on the side of his face and she wanted to hit him again," Flores told NBC Washington, "but this is when I grabbed my phone and I recorded. He did not deserve that." Flores did not get the whole interaction on video. "This is just something that didn't have to happen over some dogs," she added. "We just want peace from everything. We just want things to get done right."

When approached by a news crew, the male neighbor refused to comment on the incident, though he did say Guevara had been "trespassing." Guevara was just weeks away from being a grandfather when he passed away.