{"id":251719,"date":"2026-07-25T06:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251719\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T06:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:58:30","slug":"teen-charged-in-deadly-july-shooting-of-doordash-driver-in-southwest-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251719\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen charged in deadly July shooting of DoorDash driver in Southwest Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/vcq9na9mxtylyft4.jpg\" alt=\"Food delivery driver targeted, shot dead in Southwest Philly: Neighbors react\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/vcq9na9mxtylyft4.jpg\" alt=\"Food delivery driver targeted, shot dead in Southwest Philly: Neighbors react\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-6546b402=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A 15-year-old boy was arrested in connection with the deadly shooting of a DoorDash driver earlier this month in Southwest Philadelphia, investigators announced on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Zakah Johnson, 15, was arrested Thursday on charges unrelated to the July 7 shooting death of 43-year-old Mahfuzul Haque.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities say as the &#8220;extensive investigation&#8221; unfolded, Johnson was rearrested on Friday and charged as an adult with murder and other offenses.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers from the Philadelphia Police Department were called to the 1000 block of South Ithan Street just after 10 p.m. for reports of a shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police found Haque laying near a DoorDash delivery bag suffering from a gunshot wound to the back of the head. He was taken to Penn Presbyterian Hospital where he died.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators say the homeowners at the food delivery address told police they did not place a food delivery order, leading authorities to believe the driver was the victim of a targeted attack.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A 15-year-old boy was arrested in connection with the deadly shooting of a DoorDash driver earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[592,139,539,69,71,70,593],"class_list":["post-251719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251719","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=251719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}