Delivery driver shot in stomach after bringing order to wrong house, US cops say


A food delivery worker rides down a sidewalk after a pickup from a restaurant in New York. A food delivery driver was shot after he went back to retrieve an order he had mistakenly delivered to the wrong house. — AP

A food delivery driver mistakenly dropped a late-night delivery at the wrong home, Missouri police said. When he went back to retrieve the order, he was shot, according to court records.

Dwayne Jones approached the delivery driver in his driveway and shot him in the stomach after the driver went to get the food sitting outside the home shortly after midnight July 7, St. Charles County police said.

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