STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man accused of having killed three people at a municipal meeting in eastern Pennsylvania following a feud over his junk-strewn property says he’s sorry “innocent people” got hurt but also has harsh words for local officials.

The Pocono Record says 59-year-old Rockne Newell told the paper Wednesday that there were ‘innocent victims’ in the Aug. 5 shootings at the Ross Township supervisors meeting, but he said he felt like a victim himself.

Newell bought the property in 1990 but got laid off from his welding job and landed on disability following a crash. He said he endured years of harassment from the township and felt hounded by neighbors who saw his property as an eyesore, but he “wasn’t bothering anybody” and should have been left alone.