Anniston man arrested after trying to hire a hitman to kill neighbor

A disabled Army veteran from Anniston is in federal custody today charged in a murder-for-hire plot against his neighbor. Court documents filed by the FBI says that 29 year old Allen Wayne Densen Morgan, is accused of hiring an undercover FBI agent to murder a man he believed raped his wife days earlier. The affidavit says an FBI agent called Morgan pretending to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan on Thursday, Aug. 22. The agent called to verify that Morgan wanted to hire someone to kill his neighbor. Morgan told the agent that he had just confronted his neighbor in Munford and fired several rounds at the ground to intimidate him. He said he didn't intend to kill the neighbor then because "several people were present." According to court documents, Morgan described how he wanted his neighbor murdered by stating, "I want this man hung like a tree like an animal. I want his [expletive] cut off and I want him cut...I want him hung from a tree and gutted...that's how I want him to die. Die a slow painful death and that's it." Morgan said he would discuss payment with the supposed hit man when they met up on Sunday, Aug. 25^th at the Econo Lodge in Oxford. At that meeting Morgan offered them payment in the form of a watch and a necklace and also promised to pay them with a firearm at his home. He gave the undercover agents a map to his neighbor's home and described his neighbor's physical appearance. At the end of their meeting, the FBI agents took Morgan into custody, questioned him, and charged him murder for hire. Morgan made a brief appearance along with U.S. Marshals at the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office on Monday, but he is no longer in custody there..The FBI confirms Monday that he is in U.S. Marshals' custody. FBI spokesman Paul Daymond says Morgan could possibly also be charged with hate crime. Morgan's neighbor, the man he wanted to be killed, does have a prior record. In 2008, he was accused of raping a 13-year-old and he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. Morgan told undercover agents during one of those conversations that they could pull a picture of his neighbor from the sex offender registry website.