A Houston Father Killed an Innocent Amazon Manager Thinking He’s a Kidnapper

A father in Houston, Texas, shot and killed a Black man over a misunderstanding. Jonathan Ross Mata thought the Amazon manager was his daughter’s kidnapper, so he chased his moving vehicle and shot at him.

The deceased, identified as 25-year-old Desmond Butler, was leaving the gas station parking lot when the father thought he was, as we mentioned before, the one who kidnapped his 19-year-old daughter. The incident occurred on Christmas Day. The father was under stress as his daughter had called him and his wife, telling them her boyfriend had attacked her.

According to Law & Crime, the daughter asked her parents to pick her up from her cousin’s apartment. The parents came to the Shell gas station on Bellaire Boulevard, believing that was the pick-up spot. They thought her boyfriend would drop her there…

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