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T.C. Morphis: Mr. Carter, if you will open the Exhibit notebook please. Go back to Exhibit 1. If you will look at 1 number 4. Is that the location of your property? 2 3 Adrian Carter: That is my property. 4 5 T.C. Morphis: How long have you lived there Mr. Carter? 6 7 Adrian Carter: We purchased in 1996 and the next couple of years, my wife and I cleared the lot and built our home 8 together. We moved in September 1998. We have been there a while. 9 10 T.C. Morphis: Since you moved in, have you heard shooting in the area? 11 12 Adrian Carter: Of course. As we worked there, we heard shooting, hunting, whatever, seasonality of it, expected in a 13 rural area, hunting and the sound of hunting is expected. 14 15 T.C. Morphis: What changed? What made this use objectionable? 16 17 Adrian Carter: Starting probably in the fall of 2010, we had been there 12 years at this point, significant change in the 18 frequency and intensity of just the cacophony of multiple caliber weapons, multiple shooters. All coming from the 19 same general direction which on the map would be east/southeast from our property and so we would have 20 conversation with our neighbors, what the heck is going on, what’s happened, who is just lighting up the sky with 21 weapons? I think around the start of 2011, we had a homeowners meeting and the nearest email I could find to 22 where we started to look into this more deeply was around March of 2011 so almost four years ago. 23 24 T.C. Morphis: I’m going to spare the board and not play the clip again. Tell me about that clip, where did that clip 25 come from? 26 27 Adrian Carter: I recorded that clip with a smartphone from my kitchen window facing the property in question. 28 29 T.C. Morphis: Best guess, how far is your property? And we are going to get, in a moment, to the location of the 30 range but your best guess, how far is it from the range? 31 32 Adrian Carter: It is 1,000 feet. 33 34 T.C. Morphis: That noise that Mr. Gallagher had to talk over, is that an accurate representation of what you hear 35 from your property? 36 37 Adrian Carter: I would differ from what John Gallagher said that noise level you played it at was the sound level we 38 experienced in our home with the windows closed. I think the difference, not to impugn Mr. Gallagher’s testimony, 39 but Mr. Gallagher lives opposite the mussel direction of the gun so we were catching the shock wave of the blast of 40 the weapon because as we were to later find out, the gun range points towards our house. 41 42 T.C. Morphis: We will talk in a moment about how you know that. I would like to direct you to Exhibit 8 which are the 43 police reports again. I apologize, it was sheriff’s department. Did you or your wife ever call the sheriff’s department? 44 45 Adrian Carter: Yes. 46 47 T.C. Morphis: I am looking, there are 13 reports, I don’t see your name on any of these but you made those calls, is 48 that correct? 49 50 32