Overview
- Police say a highway confrontation preceded the shooting after the suspect followed a FedEx truck into the company’s Riviera Beach facility and waited near a loading bay.
- Surveillance video shows Nathaniel Padgett approaching with a concrete block held at his waist, which investigators say he did not raise or throw before gunfire erupted.
- Padgett was struck seven times, with wounds to his chest, abdomen, arm, and leg, and he was later pronounced dead at St. Mary’s Medical Center.
- ShotSpotter, a gunshot-detection system, registered nine shots at the hub as investigators recovered nine 9mm shell casings at the scene.
- About 20 minutes after the shooting, Tyler Vidro called police from a Sunoco station, said he felt threatened, allegedly admitted emptying his magazine, and is now held without bond with a court date set for May 17.