Key Takeaways
- A delivery driver shot a teenage boy during an attempted carjacking in Richmond’s East End.
- Police found a shot car on Fairfield Avenue after responding to calls about shots fired.
- The driver claims self-defense, and no charges have been filed against him so far.
- Witnesses heard multiple gunshots and described a chaotic scene with police presence.
- Delivery drivers face risks while working, often in unfamiliar areas and vulnerable situations.
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RICHMOND, VA — A delivery driver shot a teenage boy who he says tried to take his car in Richmond’s East End near Fairfield Court, and so far no charges have been placed against the driver.
Richmond police responded to a shots fired and attempted carjacking call at 10:30 a.m. in the 2800 block of Fairfield Avenue and found a car that had been shot, as reported by CBS 6. Crime Insider sources told the station the delivery driver fired several rounds at the teen during the alleged carjacking attempt.
The teenage boy was found near the rental office of an apartment complex on the Henrico side of Fairfield Avenue. Investigators recovered rounds near the vehicle and a short distance down the road from where the car was loaded onto a flatbed truck.
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A neighbor who declined to show her face on camera described what she heard from upstairs in her bedroom. “I was upstairs in my bedroom and I heard a loud boom, boom, boom, boom, boom about six or seven times, and I came downstairs and looked out the window and I saw all these police cars and I saw a guy walking, pacing back up and down the sidewalk,” she said. Sources say the man pacing on the sidewalk was the driver of the car. She said she has lived in the area just under two years, that a baby across the street was killed last year, and that she now tells her family to avoid contact and confrontation with anyone in and around the neighborhood. “Yeah, I’m a mom of three, and I’m ready to move already,” she said.
Delivery drivers are exposed by the nature of the job. Predictable stops, hands full, attention split, in and out of the vehicle dozens of times a day, often on blocks they do not know. This one was armed while doing honest work, and if the account holds up he was able to defend himself instead of finding out what a stranger was willing to do to him.
