Delivery driver, a legal gun owner, shoots suspects trying to rob him: Police

Three suspected robbers were delivered an unexpected counterattack from a delivery man in Philadelphia.

An unnamed delivery driver was being robbed Saturday just after midnight in the city’s Mayfair neighborhood after a night of work. He had just exited his own home after delivering some dinner to his family.

What the suspects likely didn’t know was that he was a gun owner.

He was legally in possession of a firearm, according to police, and was confronted outside his home. The suspects allegedly demanded money while aiming guns at him, and he told them the money was in his car.

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Surveillance cameras captured the encounter.

While they were searching for cash, he pulled out his firearm and shot at them, police said.

Two were shot, and a third suspect fled the scene.

The wounded suspects were in their 20s, while the third who fled was a teenager, according to authorities.

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One suspect died at a hospital while the other is in critical condition.

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