{"id":920044,"date":"2026-07-08T03:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/920044\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T03:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:57:17","slug":"doordash-delivery-driver-shot-in-head-killed-in-southwest-philadelphia-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/920044\/","title":{"rendered":"DoorDash delivery driver shot in head, killed in Southwest Philadelphia, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A DoorDash delivery driver was shot in the head and killed in Southwest Philadelphia Tuesday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p>It happened on the 1000 block of South Ithan Street around 9:30 p.m. in Kingsessing, Philadelphia Police Department Chief Inspector Scott Small said.<\/p>\n<p>Small said the 42-year-old man delivering for DoorDash was found lying next to his running vehicle, suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. Two spent shell casings and a DoorDash bag were also found near him at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The delivery driver was taken to Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead after 10 p.m., Small said.<\/p>\n<p>Small said that police are searching for three males who were wearing dark clothing in connection with the deadly shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A DoorDash delivery driver was shot in the head and killed in Southwest Philadelphia Tuesday night, police said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":920045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,16286,189663,1448,2830,1311,46749,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-920044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-doordash","tag-kingsessing","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-southwest-philadelphia","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}