Amazon Worker Shot And Killed By Food Delivery Driver Outside Online Retailer’s Distribution Center

A nutrient transportation driver fatally shot an Amazon worker successful nan parking batch of nan online retailer’s distribution halfway extracurricular of Chicago, according to police.

Officials successful Matteson, Illinois, announced Monday that constabulary officers recovered an Amazon worker who was changeable aggregate times successful nan torso adjacent nan beforehand entranceway of an Amazon distribution halfway successful nan colony Sunday night.

The worker was identified arsenic a 27-year-old man from adjacent Glenwood, according to a Facebook post from nan colony of Matteson. Local outlets named nan unfortunate arsenic Dylan Perkins, citing nan section aesculapian examiner’s office.

Investigators recovered that Perkins and nan nutrient transportation driver sewage into an statement that turned physical, Matteson officials said.

During nan fight, nan fishy changeable Perkins “several times,” according to officials.

“I don’t deliberation that anyone should person a fewer words pinch each different and past you extremity up dead,” nan Amazon worker’s mother, Pamela Perkins, told CBS News Chicago.

The responding officers provided aesculapian assistance to Perkins until paramedics arrived. The worker was past taken to a section hospital, wherever he died from his injuries.

“This is an isolated incident and location is nary threat to nan public,” Matteson officials wrote successful nan Facebook post.

As of Monday, authorities were still moving to place and complaint nan suspect.

The Independent has requested remark from Matteson police, nan aesculapian examiner’s agency and Amazon.

“I deliberation group request to study really to locomotion away,” Pamela Perkins said. “It doesn’t make consciousness conscionable to spell backmost and distant pinch personification complete little, trivial things.”

“We’re saddened by this senseless enactment of unit and are focused connected supporting our labor and nan victim's family during this difficult time,” an Amazon spokesperson said successful a connection shared by ABC7 Chicago.

“We're moving pinch nan Matteson Police Department successful their progressive investigation,” nan personification said.

Amazon noted that nan worker was a third-party vendor. All shifts were canceled, and everyone who was moving was sent location pinch afloat salary aft nan shooting, nan institution told CBS News Chicago.

This is not nan first clip a shooting has taken spot astatine nan Amazon distribution halfway successful Matteson.

In 2024, a 33-year-old woman’s caput was grazed by a slug successful a shooting that occurred apt successful retaliation for an earlier conflict that had happened successful nan parking batch betwixt employees, according to section reports.

Another shooting took spot astatine nan distribution halfway during a parking batch statement successful 2022, but nary 1 was injured, reports said.

“I deliberation we request to do a amended occupation pinch securing parking tons of these large businesses,” Perkins’ sister, Kimberly Perkins, told CBS News Chicago. “I conscionable wish that it doesn’t hap to anybody else.”

Officials inquire anyone pinch accusation related to nan shooting to telephone nan Matteson police’s non-emergency statement astatine 708-503-3130 aliases taxable an anonymous extremity done nan village’s website.