Parking dispute at North Lauderdale Walmart ends in fatal shooting

A parking-space argument outside the North Lauderdale Walmart at 7900 W. McNab Road turned deadly just before 12:30 p.m. Tuesday when a woman shot Bart Diguglielmo, 62, of Lauderhill. Diguglielmo was taken to a local hospital and later died, turning a routine stop at a store that is open daily from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. into a homicide scene.

The Broward Sheriff’s Office said Diguglielmo and the woman were arguing over a parking space before the shooting. Deputies found Diguglielmo with a gunshot wound and began treating the case as a homicide investigation. The woman stayed at the scene, cooperated with detectives and told them she acted in self-defense. A woman was detained as investigators worked the lot.

The confrontation was captured in more than one way. A witness recorded the incident on a cell phone video, and cameras from a nearby Tesla also recorded the shooting, giving detectives multiple angles on a dispute that unfolded in public, in daylight, and in front of passing shoppers. The camera footage is likely to play a central role as investigators try to reconstruct exactly how a parking lot dispute escalated into gunfire.

The case lands in a county where the stakes are high. Broward County was estimated at 2,013,317 residents on July 1, 2025, after an estimate of 2,037,472 a year earlier, and the North Lauderdale Walmart sits in a retail stretch used daily by shoppers from nearby cities including Lauderhill. That density, paired with a store that operates from early morning until late evening, makes the parking lot a place where ordinary conflicts can quickly spill into public view.

The shooting will be presented to the Broward State Attorney’s Office, which will decide whether charges should be filed. Florida law allows a person to use force in defense of person when that person reasonably believes it is necessary to defend against the imminent use of unlawful force, and investigators will have to weigh that claim against the video, witness accounts and the circumstances that led to the fatal shot.