‘No Verbal Confrontation, No Nothing’: Pennsylvania Man Accused of ‘Just’ Shooting Instacart Driver He Mistook for Intruder After Wife Forgets to Tell Him About Online Grocery Order

A Pennsylvania man is facing charges for shooting an Instacart delivery driver he mistook for a home intruder. Authorities say they received a call at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 18 for a man shot in the leg in a neighborhood in Newtown Township, a town about 100 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Investigators learned that a woman had ordered groceries through Instacart that evening, but didn’t alert her husband, 43-year-old Nicholas Sabo, that a delivery was on its way. (Credit: Lackawanna County Central Processing) When the Instacart driver arrived, Sabo’s wife saw an alert from the home security camera system that movement was detected near the garage. She told police that she believed someone was trying to break into a utility trailer on the property. That’s when Sabo grabbed a gun and went outside to confront the suspected criminal and shot the driver in the leg. “(The husband) goes out, sees the individual and, no verbal confrontation, no nothing, just shoots,” South Abington Township Police Chief Paul Wolfe told Centre Daily Times. The Instacart driver ran back to his car where his wife and child were waiting for him, drove down the street, and dialed 911. He was rushed to...