{"id":251731,"date":"2026-07-25T07:46:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251731\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T07:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:46:36","slug":"zakah-johnson-charged-in-fatal-shooting-of-doordash-driver-md-mahfuzal-haque-in-philadelphias-kingsessing-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251731\/","title":{"rendered":"Zakah Johnson charged in fatal shooting of DoorDash driver MD Mahfuzal Haque in Philadelphia&#8217;s Kingsessing section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, July 24, 2026 11:00PM<\/p>\n<p>Teen charged in fatal shooting of DoorDash driver in Philadelphia&#8217;s Kingsessing section<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; A 15-year-old boy is charged with the<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/door-dash-delivery-driver-shot-killed-during-southwest-philadelphia\/19467153\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> murder of a DoorDash driver<\/a> in Philadelphia&#8217;s Kingsessing neighborhood earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Zakah Johnson was taken into custody by Philadelphia on Thursday on unrelated charges.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zakah Johnson\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/19569429_zakahjohnson.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In addition, he has now been charged with murder and other offenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/door-dash-delivery-driver-shot-killed-during-southwest-philadelphia\/19467153\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DoorDash driver shot and killed during delivery in Philadelphia&#8217;s Kingsessing section<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">MD Mahfuzal Haque, 43, was found shot in the back of the head on the 1000 block of South Ithan Street on July 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A DoorDash bag was found next to his body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Johnson is being charged as an adult.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, July 24, 2026 11:00PM Teen charged in fatal shooting of DoorDash driver in Philadelphia&#8217;s Kingsessing section WPVI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[107594,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-251731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-107594","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251731","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=251731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}