Police said surveillance video showed two people following the driver before the fatal shooting.
PHILADELPHIA, PA — A 28-year-old pizza delivery driver was shot and killed early Friday after dropping off an order at a vacant unit inside the Raymond Rosen Homes in North Philadelphia, police said.
Investigators said the shooting appears tied to a delivery order placed for an empty property in the public housing complex. Police found the driver outside after he had been shot in the head. No arrests had been announced Friday morning, and detectives were reviewing surveillance video, phone records and evidence found at the scene.
The shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. Friday on the 2300 block of Edgley Street. Officers found the driver unresponsive on the ground and rushed him to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later. Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said investigators used the pizza boxes to identify the shop connected to the order. “From looking at the pizza boxes, we were able to identify the pizza shop,” Small said. The driver worked for Pete’s Pizza, a shop on Ridge Avenue, according to local reports and police information from the scene.
Police said officers found three spent shell casings just inches from where the driver was found. His vehicle was discovered nearby with a pizza warmer still inside. Inside the vacant unit, officers found three pizza boxes and a bag that appeared unopened and untouched. Investigators said that evidence led them to believe the driver completed the delivery before he was shot outside. Police had not released the driver’s name by Friday morning, pending family notification, and had not said who placed the order or whether the unit had been entered by force.
Surveillance video from the area showed the driver walking with the pizza order before the shooting, police said. Investigators said two people wearing dark clothing followed him. One of the people appeared to be carrying a dark backpack. Police said the shooting itself was not captured on camera, but the video showed what happened in the moments before it. Detectives also said they had verified the phone number used to place the order. They were searching for more video from nearby cameras that could show where the people came from or where they went after the shooting.
The shooting happened at the Raymond Rosen Homes, a Philadelphia Housing Authority property in North Philadelphia. Police described the delivery address as vacant, a detail that became central to the investigation. Authorities said they were examining whether the order was used to draw the driver to the location. The case also comes after other attacks on food delivery drivers in Philadelphia, including a 2024 case in which a pizza delivery driver was robbed and shot while making a delivery in the city’s Elmwood Park section. Police have not said whether Friday’s killing was a robbery, a targeted shooting or another kind of planned attack.
Detectives were continuing to process the scene Friday and review the ballistic evidence recovered outside the unit. Police said no weapon had been reported recovered, and no suspect description had been released beyond the two people seen on video in dark clothing. Investigators were expected to use the phone number tied to the order, surveillance video and physical evidence to identify who requested the delivery and who followed the driver. Any charges would depend on the evidence gathered by homicide detectives and reviewed by prosecutors.
The early morning scene left investigators focused on a narrow path from the vacant apartment to the spot where the driver fell. The untouched food inside the unit, the warmer left in the vehicle and the shell casings outside helped police build a timeline of the delivery and shooting. Small said the video was important because it showed the driver carrying the boxes while being followed. Police said the victim had just finished the job he was sent to do when he was attacked.
As of Friday morning, police said no one was in custody. The next step in the case is the review of surveillance video and phone information tied to the order, along with any new evidence gathered by homicide detectives.
Author note: Last updated June 5, 2026.