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Updated · WPLG Local 10 · Jul 2

62-Year-Old Bart Diguglielmo Dies After Walmart Parking Lot Shooting in Self-Defense Claim

Updated

Updated · WPLG Local 10 · Jul 2

62-Year-Old Bart Diguglielmo Dies After Walmart Parking Lot Shooting in Self-Defense Claim

Q: An Army veteran is dead over a parking spot. What does the unreleased video reveal about his final moments?

The unreleased footage, as described by witnesses and media reports, appears to show Bart Diguglielmo’s final moments as a tense, drawn-out confrontation in which the woman had a gun trained on him before firing a single shot. According to those accounts, the dispute began over a parking space in the Walmart lot. Video from a cellphone, dashcam and Tesla camera reportedly shows Diguglielmo approaching the woman while she held a cellphone in one hand and a handgun in the other. She can be heard telling him to “walk away,” and at one point she appears to back away while keeping the gun pointed at him. The footage reportedly shows the two facing off for roughly 30 seconds. In one angle, Diguglielmo raises his hands. In another, he appears to follow or move back toward the woman after briefly walking away. A single gunshot is then heard, and he collapses, apparently struck in the stomach, with blood visible on his shirt. Reports also indicate Diguglielmo remained conscious for a time after falling, alternately sitting up and lying back down, and continued exchanging words with the woman until deputies arrived. Witnesses said the woman was screaming during the confrontation and stayed at the scene afterward. What the video does not settle on its own is the legal question of self-defense. The woman told investigators she fired in self-defense, and Broward homicide detectives are expected to turn the case over to prosecutors, who will decide whether charges are warranted.

3 articles · Updated · WPLG Local 10 · Jul 2

Bart Diguglielmo, 62, died at Broward Health Medical Center after Tuesday’s shooting in the parking lot of a Walmart at 7900 W. McNab Road in North Lauderdale.
BSO said the shooting was reported just before 12:30 p.m. after Diguglielmo and a woman argued over a parking space; deputies found him with a gunshot wound.
The woman stayed at the scene, was detained for questioning and told investigators she shot Diguglielmo in self-defense; her identity has not been released.
Detectives said the case will go to the Broward County State Attorney’s Office to decide whether criminal charges will be filed.
Diguglielmo’s daughter told Local 10 her father was a military veteran and said he should not be defined by conflicting accounts of what led to the shooting.