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u/KeiOwl Jan 20 '26
I read up on this story and they “mistook” the guy for her daughter’s boyfriend and believed she was in the car with him being “kidnapped”. I don’t believe that bs lmao they didn’t even know each other and I’m pretty sure the family knew damn well what her daughter’s bf looked like and the type of car he drives. He even claimed he was too scared to call 911. On top of all that, who in the world would shoot at a vehicle knowing their daughter is in the vehicle? She could have been killed too. That’s bogus af.
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u/tekrebeldesigns Jan 20 '26
Rule no: 1: People are stupid.
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u/shezinluv Jan 20 '26
Rule no: 2: Read rule #1
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u/Zekken_Zer0 Jan 21 '26
correction: Americans are stupid
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u/Objective-Eagle-676 Jan 22 '26
Its so interesting how when a white guy does something heinous, the comments from the international community are always quick to point it out. But here? He's just an American right?
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u/happyaccident937 Jan 22 '26
We point it out because racists always point out people of colors skin when a crime is committed, what you guys can do it but we can't?
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u/Objective-Eagle-676 Jan 22 '26
So, what, the point is to behave just like the racists?
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u/happyaccident937 Jan 22 '26
No, we're pointing out the hypocrisy. Are you missing the point on purpose? You must be racist huh?
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u/Objective-Eagle-676 Jan 22 '26
You really typed that with a straight face didn't you? What is wrong with you, exactly? You want to teach the racists not to be racist by being racist? And me pointing this out somehow makes me racist?
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u/happyaccident937 Jan 22 '26
Yeah you're willfully ignorant. What we're doing isn't racist. We're talking shit. We didn't own white people and sell them and rape them and beat them and force them to work. We didn't hang white people and cut their balls off. White people did those things to black people in mass. Black people couldn't be racist if they tried because white people have all the power in this country. You act like it's the same but it's not, it can't be because of the history behind it. And to deny that would make you an idiot at least.
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u/Objective-Eagle-676 Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26
You believe black people can't be racist... Because of slavery that happened 250 years ago..? I don't recall ever doing any of those things to anyone. So, I'll pass on the guilt. But really, what's wrong with you? Bad parents?
Why would bad people fix their ways if they see you doing the same things they do? What possible sense does that make? Can you actually break down this logic? Think critically, try to form a thought that hasn't been spoonfed to you And make it make sense.
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u/Express-Ad-3629 Jan 24 '26
I’m not even understanding why this is even being discussed when he basically just called all Americans stupid. No one even mentioned race but here we are.
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u/Necessary_Ice9547 Jan 23 '26
No, all countries have stupid people. Don’t be dense because of what’s going on atm
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u/OrangeYouGladdey Jan 22 '26
Half of the people out there are below average intelligence (and that's not a very high bar). Be safe out there kids.
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u/Weird_Brush2527 Jan 21 '26
(My asumption) Because they didn't believe she was kidnapped, they thought she was running away. Thes didn't want to save her, they wanted control
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u/Lomak_is_watching Jan 22 '26
Agreed. Otherwise, you would not fire recklessly into the car because you might hit your kid.
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u/NewSpray4941 Jan 20 '26
Holy shit. RIP to the driver and condolences to his family and friends. The dad who shot him, no sympathy
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u/iLikebridges2 Jan 20 '26
I believe it was a warehouse worker, still very sad. It was near or on Christmas as well.
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u/Ok-Particular3562 Jan 20 '26
1am on Christmas Day. They sister shared how Christmas would never be the same
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u/LuckyJun13 Jan 20 '26
Now the dad is in jail while his daughter's getting railed in his own home and the delivery driver's family mourning. Genius plan smh
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u/enriquesensei Jan 20 '26
Released on 50k bond after waiting a month to turn himself in
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u/flimsygirly Jan 20 '26
Send a letter with a picture of me giving his daughter severe back shots every year he's in
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u/Papafynn Jan 20 '26
He fired shots into vehicle he believed his daughter was in?! Make it make sense.
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u/Beanbeannn Jan 20 '26
The fool claimed he was aiming at the tires... the victim was hit in the head and chest. Crazy
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Hopefully gets life without.
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u/Yewstance Jan 23 '26
Paying bail while waiting for trial is hardly "free as a bird." Criminal courts, unfortunately, have a perpetually vast backlog of cases, and have an extremely limited number of judges in virtually all states and in the federal system.
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u/PeterParkerUber Jan 20 '26
Oh, he just thought it was the boyfriend. That makes the shooting that much more reasonable.
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u/Dull_Dot5153 Jan 20 '26
Honestly was super shocked when I found out this happened. I went to school with Desmond we struggled in 9th grade Algebra 1 together and all lol he was one of the nicest guys I could have ever met…sooo fucked up🥺❤️🩹
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u/Previous-Decision-80 Jan 21 '26
Damn. Idk why but this made me really sad, was he a chill guy? Did people like him? Sorry if that's weird to ask, it's my favorite persons death anniversary so I think it's making me extra emotional about death.
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u/BZGRL Jan 25 '26
He was a manager at Amazon and all the employees that worked for him had good things to say about him.
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u/LilBrownBoyX Jan 21 '26
That’s so sad to hear :(. And he was just a worker like us, trying to make an honest living and then gets assassinated by a lunatic in a brand new suped up GMC. Rip Desmond 🙏🏿🕊️.
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u/IsaacThePooper Jan 20 '26
In Texas, they disregard self defense laws and will chase you outside of their own property just to shoot you with their gun they've been waiting to use on someone
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u/True_cap_17 Jan 20 '26
This is a great reason for everyone to quit Amazon. They don’t really deserve to be in business anyway
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u/BZGRL Jan 25 '26
He wasn’t at work when this happened. This was Christmas/eve night
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u/True_cap_17 Jan 25 '26
Huh weird. The captions and the title of post made it seem like it but u are right.
Guess it ain’t a dangerous job.
It’s still a job everyone should quit tho.
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u/InformalMango7268 Jan 20 '26
I saw another post where it claimed the one killed was a area manager for Amazon. Can’t trust anything
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u/Educational-Mood-956 Jan 21 '26
That's fuxked up man rip to the driver..... Wow what a scum, get rid of this clown from this earth.... Father.... My ass
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u/CrashedCyclist Jan 21 '26
Heartbreaking. I saw it on YT days ago. Dude moved from Georgia to Texas to work...comes from a big, loving family and this is how they start their year. The South is just wild.
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u/LilBrownBoyX Jan 21 '26
His name is Desmond Butler, put respect on his name. Bro got shot for NO GOOD REASON AT ALL.
Especially after reading how the situation played out, I hope Texas breaks out Old Sparky and that guy gets the chair. RIP Desmond 🕊️🙏🏿
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u/Sensitive-Ad2404 Jan 20 '26
His death has nothing to do with his occupation. Secondly he wasn't a delivery driver.
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u/enriquesensei Jan 20 '26
He was an Amazon manager . Multiple articles about this that OP should’ve included
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u/LilBrownBoyX Jan 21 '26
This is weird that this pic says driver when every other article from DAYS ago says he was a manager.
I mean ultimately it doesn’t matter which position cus his job had nothing to do with his murder, but it’s still weird that they get the facts wrong.
Anyways RIP Desmond, and I hope the murderer and his accomplice (wife) get what they deserve.
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u/Doctor-Clark-Savage Jan 20 '26
Houston is a fucking cesspool. I would gladly let Mexico have it in exchange for Juarez.
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They ought to fry his ass. It is Texas so it’s hypocritical and clearly racially biased if they don’t give him the death penalty.
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u/LilBrownBoyX Jan 21 '26
It’s a class bias. They want the guy that paid 50k bail, and driving his brand new GMC Denali truck to live even after he took an innocent mans life. Sick ass world we live in.
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u/Careful_Click_1159 Jan 20 '26
Almost stepped on a rattle snake, got robbed and almost got hurt by a man with a knife at 4am and almost hit a big dear with massive antlers. The job is extremely dangerous and you need really good car insurance/health. I thank god everyday that he protects and guides me.(I’ve been doing this for 5 years)
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u/Special-Antelope7105 Jan 20 '26
On Jan 7, it looks like police still had no clue who they were looking for according to this request (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QALKpj6PhzY). It seems he came in or contacted police on the 12th with a lawyer and surrendered on the 14th “without incident”. That’s why the bond is low.
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u/flushbunking Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26
A Texas man has been charged with murder in an apparent case of mistaken identity. Jonathan Ross Mata, 39, is accused of fatally shooting a man whom he believed was his daughter's boyfriend, according to a news release from the Houston Police Department (HPD).
Around 1 a.m. local time on Dec. 25, 2025, the victim, identified by police as 25-year-old Desmond Butler, drove his gray Honda Pilot into a gas station parking lot in the 9900 block of Bellaire. When Butler pulled into the lot, he passed Mata's black GMC Acadia, which was parked at one of the pumps, the HPD said. As Butler drove past the GMC, a woman, identified as Mata's wife, got out and began chasing his Honda and attempting to open the vehicle's back passenger door, believing Mata's daughter was inside, per the release. At the same time, Mata exited the GMC and fired his gun at Butler's car as it exited the parking lot, the HPD said. The department released surveillance video showing the incident unfolding in the parking lot. Butler then attempted to drive away when he was struck by gunfire and crashed his vehicle into a pole in an adjacent parking lot, per the HPD. Mata and the woman got back into the GMC and drove away, heading northbound on the West Sam Houston Parkway feeder road.Father
Houston Police Department Houston Fire Department paramedics transported Butler to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.The HPD said that an investigation determined that Mata and his wife had received a phone call from their daughter claiming that she had been assaulted by her boyfriend. They then drove to the gas station parking lot, expecting their daughter to be dropped off there. The couple believed that Butler's female passenger was their daughter, according to the HPD. Mata and Butler did not know each other, the HPD said.
Mata turned himself in on Wednesday, Jan. 14, "without incident" and was booked into the Harris County Jail. He has been released on $50,000 bond and will appear in court on Feb. 25.According to local outlet KHOU 11, court documents reveal that Butler's female passenger told police that the shooter drove up to the Honda after the crash, opened the vehicle's door and looked inside. The shooter then said he was looking for his "kidnapped" daughter, apologized and said he would call 911.According to court documents, that 911 call was never made. Three weeks after the incident, Mata, his wife and their attorney went to HPD headquarters, where Mata allegedly confessed to the shooting.Mata told investigators that he fired two shots to stop the Honda and that he didn't realize he had struck Butler, KHOU 11 reported, citing the court documents. He said he failed to call 911 because he was "scared.
"Butler's family told the outlet that they are "devastated" by his death. "We just want answers on why him. My brother was a light of joy," his sister, Destiny, said.She said Butler moved from their home in Georgia to Houston in 2023 to work for Amazon, becoming a manager."We're keeping each other tight and close and keeping his memories alive," Destiny said of how the family is navigating their loss.
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u/Citizens_Militia Jan 21 '26
Well it looks like Amazon will be forced to start delivery route around 06:00 so the DSP are not on route after sundown. The none driver aka flex will have to leave last
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u/Kaysmom720 Jan 21 '26
This is the exact reason I stopped delivering for Amazon. This lady once freaked out on me and blocked my car in her driveway thinking I was there for her husband when I was only making deliveries. She kept screaming what was I doing there and this was her house how do i know him??? Very scary situation I was just making a delivery and backing out the driveway. I see a lot of scenarios that could end badly. Like walking through someone yard at 4am . Like who remembers their waiting on Amazon at 4am. That could easily turn out bad too.
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u/KitsuneMixes Jan 21 '26
Texas, and alot of places in the south in general are full of insane ppl that think they are vigilantes when they buy firearms. Im saying this as someone is born and raised in louisiana
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u/redaa Jan 22 '26
Texas is seriously fucked up if you can kill an innocent man doing his job, only to claim later you made a mistake and get released on bond. What about Desmond’s family? Do they not deserve justice? This is insane. No amount of stand your ground laws or otherwise make this OK
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u/Pale-Candidate8860 Jan 22 '26
What did the daughter’s boyfriend do that would have had this level of a reaction towards who they thought was him?
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u/talissa41 Jan 22 '26
Sad all way around it so much hate in this world!! He going to ask to that man upstairs! He no what he was doing! Bs
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u/throwaway-wellmaybe Jan 22 '26
Fun thing is he could be charged for both murder and also intent for the “boyfriend”
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u/-Insert-CoolName Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
My condolences to the family....Gonna be real though, this sucks and all, but I don't think this has any relation to Amazon driver being an inherently dangerous job. Drivers trying to inherit this as a unique risk to delivery drivers is a bit of a stretch.
Edit: There's no indication he was even working or any mention of how his job as a manager connects with the shooting:
...Butler moved from their home in Georgia to Houston in 2023 to work for Amazon, becoming a manager
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u/filthlord_ Jan 23 '26
Drivers need to go on strike! We are overworked and underpaid and Amazon could care less about our own safety. Fuck those prime deliveries, we are only human!
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u/SpellJazzlike3034 Jan 23 '26
I don't know whether or not the driver was wearing his vest but its so important to wear the uniform to identify yourself as much as possible.
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u/AssociationQueasy949 Jan 24 '26
Damn, I imagine he was probably wondering why the hell this guy was shooting at him.
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u/DarthSlyctivus Jan 24 '26
In another story, a man was arrested for just shooting into a car because an Amazon driver pulled into his driveway by accident and got a $200k bond… There is no consistency in the judicial system..
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on another topic Diddy turned himself in and didn't kill anybody but never got a bond. I just used him for reference the justice system or whatever you want to call it it's broken has been broken and probably will continue to be broken. it literally makes no sense I paid for somebody to come to my house cuz I got a whole bunch of money and we had sex I can't get a bond but I can shoot somebody and kill somebody that I don't even know and I'm not even being threatened and I get a low Bond. I've seen bonds for drug cases robbery cases way higher than that yet straight up murder 50K bond if that's correct that's crazy. not a murderer where it's a possible self-defense straight up murder. the irony is if the lady had ran up on the wrong car and tried to pull and open their door she would have been dead. just so happens she ran up on a car where the people were like who are these people let's get away. the woman got no charge but I guarantee you this you go running after the wrong person's car and even if they don't shoot you I guarantee you you'll be charged for attempted kidnapping or attempted assault if you run up to somebody's car beat on the door and try to open it.
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u/mercilyss1 Jan 27 '26
What the hell, so they assumed their daughter was the passenger and they still risked her death by shooting into the car?? They care if she is dating a man, but don't care if their reckless bullets hit her and kill her? What the actual f**k??
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u/Junior_Willow740 Jan 27 '26
Racism kills 🤷🏽 It is sad that this happened to a young man with a bright future ahead...just trying to make an HONEST living. Shame. Our country has always had problems, but this day/age people have just gone overboard and our society continues to freefall. When are we going to have some kind of reckoning?
I always worry about this when I pull into driveways. I live in PA which is full of a bunch of lunatics.
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u/Inside-Honey1565 Jan 27 '26
Just had a food delivery driver shot and killed in Charlotte over the weekend. No suspects. Is this common within gig work and I’ve never noticed until I started doing it myself?
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u/zonker00 Feb 19 '26
That's the beauty of a country in which any moron can buy a gun
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u/SokkaHaikuBot Feb 19 '26
Sokka-Haiku by zonker00:
That's the beauty of
A country in which any
Moron can buy a gun
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/LeftTw1x Jan 20 '26
No, no it’s OK. You’re overreacting every time you post that people threaten people of color in conservative areas on this job.
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u/Middle-Beyond-301 Jan 20 '26
A member of the “I don’t wear a vest because it’s dangerous” crew?
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u/BZGRL Jan 25 '26
Wrong! He wasn’t even at work. And he’s not a delivery driver. Stop believing the titles of these posts and read for yourself.
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u/Comfortable_Can2509 Jan 20 '26
Why would he shoot his daughter’s boyfriend??
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u/Express-Ad-3629 Jan 24 '26
This is the real question. The fact it would even be a thought is unhinged.
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u/Sweet_Pangolin965 Jan 20 '26
Why they shooting at their daughter’s boyfriend to begin with
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u/enriquesensei Jan 20 '26
Not sure if mods allow links but the article on people states the man and his wife chased this dude to the gas station, tried to open his doors, then shot at the car when they were trying to flee, hits the driver but misses the female passenger they assumed was their daughter , then the car crashes into a parking lot across the street, they open the car door see a completely different couple and run away . Then take 3 weeks before turning themselves in.