Woman shoots father of 3 dead during argument over Walmart parking spot, blows the 62-year-old Army vet away with blast to stomach: Police

A Florida begetter of 3 was fatally shot outside a Walmart, with cops saying a pistillate was arguing with him implicit a parking spot before she blew the U.S. Army seasoned distant with a blast to the stomach.

Bart Diguglielmo, 62, was astatine a Walmart successful Broward County erstwhile the woman, who has not been publically identified by police, allegedly changeable him connected Tuesday afternoon.

"The preliminary probe revealed an big pistillate and [Diguglielmo] were progressive successful a verbal altercation implicit a parking abstraction successful the Walmart parking batch anterior to the shooting," the Broward County Sheriff's Office says successful a press release. "According to investigators, the shooter, the big female, remained connected scene, cooperated with detectives and she told them the shooting was successful self-defense."

Deputies responded to the Walmart, located astatine 7900 W. McNab Road successful North Lauderdale, astir 12:28 p.m., the sheriff's bureau says. Diguglielmo was recovered suffering from a azygous gunshot wound, and paramedics rushed him to Broward Health Medical Center, wherever helium was pronounced dead.

"I conscionable don't deliberation anybody deserves to suffer their beingness implicit a parking spot," his daughter, Amanda, told section autarkic tv presumption WPLG.

Cellphone video captured during the confrontation shows the pistillate allegedly shooting Diguglielmo arsenic helium walks toward her. A witnesser told WPLG that the pistillate fto Diguglielmo cognize she was going to sprout him during the altercation arsenic helium kept approaching her.

"I heard 1 quality tract accidental it was implicit a parking spot," Diguglielmo's girl told WPLG. "Another says it was due to the fact that my dada was making immoderate benignant of beforehand towards the woman, which I volition wholly debunk due to the fact that my dada is not that person. He's not perfect, but not idiosyncratic that would bash this to this extreme."

Police accidental the lawsuit volition beryllium presented to the Broward State Attorney's Office to find whether the pistillate should beryllium charged.