Damn... If these details in this article are true the father was nuts.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120110/NEWS0107/120110021/Sheriff-Food-dispute-led-murder-suicide-?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
""He tried to shoot my brother, and my brother was hiding behind me. And then he kept telling me to 'Duck! Duck! Duck!'" Sowers said on the call.
Then Paul Gilkey "walked up to me and held the gun over my head and squeezed the trigger, and my brother went down on the ground," Sowers said. "And then he walked over to my aunt and shot her."
That's a lot to live with; your brother getting shot by a gun extended over your head.