Deputies are searching for the killer of a delivery driver found dead Thursday morning near Renton.
The King County Sheriff’s Office says the body of the 50-year-old driver was found at a Fairwood apartment complex.
“The first thing I saw were police lights on the ceiling of my bedroom,” said neighbor Shelly Bynum. “I was looking out the window when they took the body away you don’t see that normally in person every day.”
Deputies believe the man was targeted while making deliveries in the neighborhood.
Something that Seattle Resident Ahmed Mumin says happens way too often.
“The bottom line is the victims are the drivers who are driving, and they need some assurance for us to enjoy these services that we are getting,” said Ahmed Mumin
As a rideshare driver himself, Mumin tells me that delivery drivers like him face the same dangers daily.
In just the last 6 months, an Uber driver was murdered in SODO, a rideshare driver was shot and killed in Edmonds, a mailman was robbed at gunpoint, and a RediCab driver was found dead in Tukwila.