The couple may well have had more than one sign...
“Police did not release information about the sign but other residents, reacting to the crime on a local message board, say the woman had a Trump sign in the yard and the victim tried to take it.”
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/woman-killed-in-dispute-over-political-sign
...unless, those online reports referred to in my last post, weren’t from actual neighbors but rather lefty instigators pretending to be neighbors, simply to stir crap up, as they regularly do. They were, after all, mere online forum reports, or claims. The people who submitted them could have been from anywhere and have had no idea, or concern, what the reality was.