Mark Douglas Golden

In what should have been a peaceful neighborhood in Port Saint Lucie, Florida, a long-simmering dispute between neighbors erupted into a tragic act of violence on November 10, 2025, claiming the life of 54-year-old Mark Douglas Golden. The fatal encounter was the culmination of more than a year of escalating tensions with his neighbor, 62-year-old Paul Maraio.

On that Monday, Maraio shot and killed both Golden and another neighbor, 75-year-old David Walter Gasik. Following the shootings, ...

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