{"id":211472,"date":"2026-06-05T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211472\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:55:10","slug":"philadelphia-delivery-driver-shot-and-killed-after-shooter-orders-pizza-to-abandoned-apartment-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211472\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia delivery driver shot and killed after shooter orders pizza to abandoned apartment, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating a shooting at a Philadelphia public housing complex after someone ordered a pizza and then fatally shot a delivery driver.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened just after midnight Friday in the Raymond Rosen Homes, on the 2300 block of Edgley Street in North Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers were called to the scene and found the victim, who had been shot in the head. The 28-year-old man was taken to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead before 1 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators learned that someone had called in a pizza delivery order to a vacant unit in the housing complex. It appears the driver made the delivery to the property and was shot after leaving the building.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Housing Authority cameras caught the driver walking with the pizza order and being followed by two people wearing dark clothing and carrying a backpack.<\/p>\n<p>The driver worked for a pizza place on the 2000 block of Ridge Avenue, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting remains under investigation, and police are looking for more surveillance video that can help find the shooter or shooters.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating a shooting at a Philadelphia public housing complex after someone ordered a pizza and then&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[758,28,69,71,70,220],"class_list":["post-211472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-gun-violence","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}