Sao Charmant, 34 and of Hollywood, Florida, was shot and killed on December 27, 2020, during a dispute with a neighbor over an orange cable running from the neighbor’s property into Charmant’s mother’s backyard. Charmant’s mother found the cable after returning from church and called her son for help. Charmant arrived, told his son to stay in the car, knocked on the neighbor’s door and windows, and then began to leave with his mother to call police when the neighbor suddenly opened the door and shot both Charmant and his mother in the stomach.

Charmant was critically injured, and despite his mother applying pressure to his wounds, he died during surgery. His mother was wounded and his young son witnessed the shooting from the car. The Hollywood Police Department treated the incident as a homicide; the neighbor was identified as the shooter and taken into custody while investigators gathered evidence and witness statements.

What details about the scene or the lead-up to the shooting might help explain how a dispute over a cable escalated to lethal violence, and can anyone who saw or heard anything that morning add information?