An Army veteran was killed outside a Florida Walmart during a Tuesday verbal parking lot dispute that quickly escalated to possible murder.
According to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO), they received a call at 12:28 pm that afternoon about a shooting at a North Lauderdale parking lot. Upon arrival, they found New Jersey native and Army veteran Bart Diguglielmo, a retired Staff Sergeant, suffering from a gunshot wound.
“Paramedics transported Diguglielmo to Broward Health Medical Center, where he was later pronounced deceased,” the BCSO said in a press release.
The unnamed woman who shot him “remained on the scene,” “cooperated with detectives,” and claimed she’d opened fire in self-defense.
Based on video footage of the shooting, people have doubts:
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: A dispute over a parking space outside a Walmart in North Lauderdale, Florida, turned deadly when a 62-year-old man was fatally shot.
According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Bart Diguglielmo was shot during an altercation with a woman in the parking lot. He… pic.twitter.com/MuO8mljMtJ
— Semitic Jew (@semitic_jew) July 2, 2026
The video showed Diguglielmo kind of just walking around the parking lot, waving his hands in the air, when he turned back toward the woman. Then, as he slowly approached her, she opened fire.
A witness who spoke with CBS News described the woman as hysterical.
“I was walking up and heard a lady screaming,” witness David Anderson said. “She was screaming, and she was saying a lot of things.”
Diguglielmo’s daughter, Amanda, was in tears when she spoke with local station WPLG through a Zoom call. She described her father as a “good man” and said that nobody “deserves to lose their life over a parking spot.”
Though “hesitant to do the interview,” she stressed to WPLG that she wanted her father “to be remembered for who he was and not who the media is portraying him to be.”
“I heard one news site say it was over a parking spot,” she added. “Another says it was because my dad was making some type of advance towards the woman, which I will completely debunk because my dad is not that person. He’s not perfect, but not someone that would do this to this extreme.”
Speaking with CBS News, Diguglielmo’s unnamed sister said she was devastated by the news and described her brother as a decorated military veteran who’d served in Desert Storm, in addition to being a retired nurse.
“He was a Christian man and a very good person and would not hurt anyone,” she insisted, adding that he had an identical twin who died years ago.
Detectives have confirmed to the media that the case will be investigated and then sent to the Broward County State Attorney’s Office for them to determine whether or not to file criminal charges against the woman.
Critics say she deserves charges:
This was NOT self defense! She needs arrested and charged!
— Can we have a conversation? (@JojoUzo) July 2, 2026
Not self defense. Shooter did not need to pull a gun. No threat of weapon from the other guy. He could of retreated and walked away from the conflict but chose deadly force when not needed.
— RC 🇺🇸 (@MNHawkguy) July 2, 2026
Earlier footage shows her exiting her car after retrieving her gun. Why did she not stay in that car and drive away? The man was unarmed. He could not have harmed her while she was driving away.
— Leah S (@LeahGM235) July 2, 2026
His hands were at his sides and empty when she fired.
They were in a public space, it was not like he was breaking into her home or work.
Even if he was yelling at her or something. It would not excuse murder.
— @BasedAF1776X (@BasedAF1776X) July 2, 2026
She’s gonna be charged with second-degree murder. Having gun shows premeditation of harm & shows malice & evil intent. There’s no other charge she would get because manslaughter doesn’t fit because of having the gun and walking to that situation. I hope she goes to jail forever
— Pinky (@Frog521987) July 2, 2026
Footage of a fatal parking spot dispute in FL that killed a 62-year-old veteran. The killer remains unnamed and free.
Does this look like “self-defense”?
(I cut out the graphic part) pic.twitter.com/zqrGb0628L
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 2, 2026
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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