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Neighborly Dispute Over Parking Leads To Man's Arrest

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) -- They are two families in two houses, on one street, in one big feud. What may have seemed silly suddenly turned serious when a gun was drawn during a neighbor's parking dispute.

"He got the gun, he cocked it back, and I go, 'hey, you better put that down or I'm gonna call the cops,'" said Canoe Sharma.

"His intention was not to kill nobody," says the father of Sacramento man Gabriel Gonzalez, but Gonzalez is in jail for allegedly pulling out a gun during the exchange over who should park where on the street in the 2800 block of 65th Avenue.

"Yeah its been going on for quite some time," said neighbor Tito Rosales. "All over a parking spot."

The Gonzalezes. The Sharmas. Neighbors for 20 years. And now this. A parking war.

"He's not using his own driveway," Canoe Sharma said.

And then it turned to violence? "Yes," she said.

Canoe Sharma was outside with one of her two toddlers when she saw her neighbor pull out the gun.

Rudopho Gonzalez's son is the one who allegedly did it, only he says it was for protection. But even he agrees the neighborly dispute has gotten out of control

A big brouhaha on the block.

"It could be one of those cases where, the people that are fighting nothing's going to happen to them but somebody is going to lose a family member," Rosales said..

A silly spat over a parking spot that's now turned into a serious concern

"I know there could be more drama," Sharma said.

Gonzalez is being held in the Sacramento County Jail on $50,000 bail. His first court appearance is scheduled for Wednesday.

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