Overview
- Officers found an Amazon employee with multiple gunshot wounds near the front entrance of the Matteson fulfillment center and paramedics later pronounced him dead; authorities identified the victim as 27‑year‑old Dylan Perkins of Glenwood.
- Police say a dispute between Perkins and a food delivery driver in the facility parking lot escalated into a minor physical altercation during which the driver produced a firearm and shot Perkins multiple times in the torso.
- Responding officers applied a tourniquet and performed CPR at the scene before paramedics arrived; the suspected shooter fled and the facility was briefly placed on lockdown while investigators processed the scene.
- The Matteson Police Department and the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force are leading an active criminal probe, officials called the shooting an isolated incident, and they have asked the public to submit tips to help identify and locate the suspect.
- The fatal shooting follows a separate June incident near an Amazon site in suburban Chicago and has renewed questions about parking‑lot access, site security and interactions between employees and third‑party delivery drivers.