A Florida prosecutor has ordered another investigation into a man who shot at a Black couple that mistakenly went to the wrong address while attempting to deliver groceries for Instacart.
Waldes Thomas, 19, and his girlfriend Diamond D’arville, 18, reportedly were doing a late-night grocery delivery to the 6500 block of SW 178th Ave. in Southwest Ranches, Florida, a little after 10 p.m. on April 15. The couple said that they were on the phone with the customer trying to find the address and ended up at another home on someone else’s property. The couple was about to drive off when the two spotted a flashlight.
“He’s like, ‘Who are you?’ and we’re saying; we’re with Instacart,’ ” D’arville said to NBC 6 News.
The couple said they thought it was the customer they were supposed to deliver to, but it wasn’t and things quickly spiraled out of control.
“The guy gets in his truck and reverses, and he pulls up behind us,” D’arville said to NBC 6 News.
D’arville said she saw the man pull out a gun as they tried to get away.
“I had seen him pull out a gun and that’s when I said, ‘We got to go, we got to go,’ ” she said told NBC 6 News. “I was scared; I’m not going to lie.”
She said her 2014 Honda Accord was hit several times, but they were able to get to safety a block away. Davie Police spotted the car pulled to the side of the road and spoke with the couple to ask them what happened.
“We were there for Instacart, we were trying to tell him, and he went about it the wrong way — instead of just calling police, saying I have trespassers on my lawn, he decided to shoot,” Thomas said to NBC 6 News.
Davie Police, which provides public safety services for the small affluent town near Fort Lauderdale, did confirm that there was a shooting and reported there were no injuries, according to NBC 6 News.
“(A detective) asked if we wanted to prosecute and we agreed to do that, but he said…
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