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DoorDash driver charged with fatally shooting Amazon worker in Matteson

Murder charges have been filed against a 33-year-old Gary, Ind., food delivery driver accused of fatally shooting a man working at an Amazon plant this week in Matteson.

Devonta D. Hodge, 33, was charged with murder in the death of 26-year-old Dylan Perkins, according to the Matteson police.

Police responded to a call of shots fired about 10:55 p.m. in an employee parking lot outside 7001 S. Vollmer Road, an Amazon fulfillment center that is open 24 hours, police said.

Hodge became embroiled in an argument with Perkins, who worked for a third-party vendor at Amazon, and fatally shot him before fleeing, the police said.

Perkins was dead at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

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