Mario DiPenti, 51, was fatally shot in the street in the 3000 block of Westmoor Court in Columbus on May 2, 2018, after a dispute with his neighbor Joshua S. Ferrell. The conflict began the previous evening when their vehicles nearly collided and escalated into a physical confrontation the next morning. DiPenti was found with a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Surveillance video from a neighbor showed Ferrell confronting DiPenti several times and then producing a handgun during the struggle. Ferrell, 31 at the time, testified he acted in self-defense and that he fired after DiPenti reached for the gun. A jury rejected that account and convicted Ferrell of murder with a gun specification; in October 2019 he received a life sentence with no chance of parole for 18 years.

The case underscores how a minor traffic dispute turned deadly. If anyone saw the incident or has additional information about interactions between the two in the days before May 2, 2018, please share what is known.