Overview
- A 28-year-old pizza delivery driver was found with a gunshot wound to the head shortly after completing a delivery to a vacant unit at the Raymond Rosen Homes complex in North Philadelphia in the early hours of Friday, and he was pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital.
- Family members and multiple reports identify the victim as Anshul Kuncha of Hyderabad, who was studying and working in the U.S. and did part-time deliveries to supplement his income.
- Police recovered three pizza boxes inside the vacant unit and three spent shell casings inches from the victim, which investigators say indicate the shooter or shooters fired at very close range.
- Philadelphia police say housing authority surveillance shows the driver being followed by two people in dark clothing, detectives have traced the order to a local shop and obtained the caller's phone number, and no arrests have been announced.
- The Consulate General of India in New York is assisting the family with repatriation and formalities, the family is pressing for a swift return of remains, and authorities have offered a $20,000 reward while continuing forensic, camera and digital follow-up.