'Emotional immaturity': DoorDash delivery driver shoots and kills Amazon employee in parking lot after victim made 'joking comment' about his height, prosecutors say

An Indiana antheral is down bars successful Illinois aft shooting and killing different antheral successful an Amazon installation parking batch during a confrontation, according to instrumentality enforcement successful the Land of Lincoln.

Devonta Hodge, 33, stands accused of 1 number of homicide implicit the June 28 decease of 26-year-old Dylan Perkins, constabulary said.

The incidental occurred precocious Sunday nighttime astatine the Amazon Fulfillment Center located connected Vollmer Road successful Matteson, a tiny colony and suburb located astir 30 miles owed southbound of Chicago.

"This was a senseless killing," Cook County Judge Torrie Luciana Corbin wrote successful an bid keeping the suspect detained pending trial, according to a courtroom study by the Chicago Tribune.

Officers arrived astatine the country a fewer minutes earlier 11 p.m. connected the nighttime successful question and recovered the unfortunate suffering from aggregate gunshot wounds to his torso, according to the Matteson Police Department.

In tribunal connected Thursday, prosecutors identified Hodge arsenic a DoorDash transportation operator and Perkins arsenic a janitorial worker astatine the facility.

The unfortunate was connected interruption with 2 co-workers erstwhile the suspect arrived, prosecutors said. Perkins is said to person made "a joking remark astir (Hodge's) height" arsenic the transportation antheral passed. Then, aft Hodge completed the delivery, Perkins approached him.

In an ensuing altercation, Hodge allegedly pushed Perkins distant from him doubly earlier taking retired a weapon and shooting him aggregate times earlier fleeing, according to instrumentality enforcement.

The unfortunate was rushed to a adjacent hospital, wherever helium yet succumbed to his injuries, according to the aesculapian examiner's office.

The full incidental was captured connected surveillance footage, and Hodge was soon identified arsenic the DoorDash driver, prosecutors said. The suspect was arrested connected June 30 aft helium voluntarily came to the Matteson constabulary presumption to talk with investigators.

Prosecutors said Hodge has a valid Firearm Owners Identification but does not person a concealed transportation permit. The authorities besides said the suspect has a anterior condemnation for unlawful usage of a weapon.

In her order, the justice wrote that Hodge "demonstrated affectional immaturity successful however to resoluteness conflicts" and aboriginal "attempted to debar work by returning the conveyance helium was driving to the proprietor and lying and saying the conveyance was missing."

The suspect is being detained successful the Cook County Jail with nary bond, records show. He is adjacent slated to look successful tribunal connected July 16.