Cameron Steele  — The Charlotte Observer Created: March 30, 2013

HARRISBURG, N.C. — A six-hour SWAT team standoff ended late Friday with a suspected shooter and two of his neighbors dead, police say.

A Cabarrus County sheriff’s official said the suspect apparently shot himself as deputies and SWAT team members surrounded the house where he was hiding. Earlier Friday, the suspect shot and killed two others, police say, in what they described as a neighborhood dispute.

Neighbors said the suspect was angry about pine trees that were cut down behind his house and that the victims were on the homeowners association board that ordered the trees removed.  Read more: