Deputy William Gentry was only responding to a dispute over a cat. A homeowner in a Lake Placid, Florida, neighborhood had called 911 to complain that a neighbor shot her cat Sunday evening. Gentry arrived with a deputy-in-training to speak to the cat’s owner, then ventured over to the neighbor’s front door by himself to confront the man who allegedly killed the cat with a pellet gun. That’s when police say 69-year-old Joseph Edward Ables pulled out a gun and shot Gentry in the head. The nine-year veteran of the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office died of his injuries at the hospital Monday. “It was just a typical neighbor dispute that deputies answer all the time.