Neighbors upset over violent squatter creating mess at house

ATLANTA — The amount of trash that was outside a southeast Atlanta house is hard to believe.
 
The homeowners live in Nashville and hope to renovate the house on Linam Street and move in, but they say a squatter responsible for the trash became violent last month when they confronted him.
 
"He got very loud, and start started screaming, he had a knife on him, and at that point I just called on the police on him,"
 
Police came to the house and arrested the man known as "Junebug" last month.
 
"It's difficult to move there at this point because I don't know if this guy is going to come back, when he's going to back, what he's going to try and do,"
 
"Are you Junebug?" Channel 2's Matt Johnson asked. "Somebody calls me that, yeah," Junebug replied.
 
Johnson found Junebug not too far away next to some garbage he said he was collecting.
 
Atlanta police know him as 62-year-old William Henry Hall.
 
He's now out of jail and back in the neighborhood.
 
Johnson showed him pictures of the trash outside the house and he didn't deny putting it there but he says he keeps to himself.
 
"Are you a violent person?" Johnson asked. "No, I'm not violent, I don't bother nobody," Junebug replied.
 
Neighbors say he clearly has mental issues and want the best for him and the neighborhood.
 
"It's bad for the neighborhood, but when you got a person with a mental problem, what can I say,"

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