Two grocery delivery workers were shot at by a Florida man after going to the wrong address.
According to the Davie Police Department, Waldes Thomas Jr., 19, and Diamond D’arville, 20, were on the phone with a customer while trying to deliver an Instacart order on April 15 around 10 p.m. The car drove onto the property of Antonio Caccavale, 43, in Southwest Ranches, in Broward County, about 30 miles northwest of Miami.
After spotting the vehicle, Caccavale told his 12-year-old son to tell them to leave. After his son called for help, Caccavale told police the driver started behaving “erratically,” and drove over logs, boulders and a fence. Caccavale said he fired a handgun several times at the car after they drove over his foot.
The pair in the car told police they hit a boulder while trying to reverse out of the area when Caccavale grabbed onto the driver’s door window aggressively. Thomas said they were able to leave the area but not before hearing three gunshots.
Police later found Thomas and D’arville nearby and both appeared frightened.
“We just got shot at,” they told an officer.
Police found two bullet holes in the car’s bumper and a flat tire. No other injuries were reported.
Davie police decided not to file charges because “each party appear justified in their actions based on the circumstances they perceived.”
However, Broward County State Attorney Harold Pryor said no determination about charges had been made yet and police closed the case without contacting his office.
“I contacted the Davie Police Department to request a full investigation,” Pryor said Friday.
The incident is the latest in a number of shootings, some fatal, of people who have committed common mistakes such as getting into the wrong car, knocking on a door at the wrong address and entering the wrong rural driveway, among others.