The employee told investigators he was handling other deliveries when a truck driver arrived hours late and became angry about waiting.
ORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida warehouse employee survived being shot in the arm after authorities say a disagreement with a truck driver who arrived hours late for a delivery escalated from a scheduling dispute into choking, a death threat and gunfire in an Orlando industrial parking lot.
The Aug. 26 encounter began with the worker doing what he described to investigators as managing incoming deliveries. It ended with paramedics taking him to a hospital and law enforcement looking for a semi-truck headed north. Authorities later arrested 67-year-old David Crump in Georgia and returned him to Florida. He faces an attempted second-degree murder charge. Although investigators cite video and witnesses tying Crump to the confrontation, they also disclosed that the injured worker could not identify him as the shooter during a later interview.
According to the worker’s account in an Orange County Sheriff’s Office affidavit, the driver reached the warehouse hours after his scheduled drop-off time. Other customers had already arrived and were delivering their own loads. The employee told the driver he would have to wait while those customers were handled. Nothing in the reliable material reviewed for this article indicates that the two men had a previously documented dispute. Investigators instead describe the warehouse scheduling problem as the issue that immediately preceded the confrontation.
The worker told detectives the driver reacted badly to being told to wait. Investigators said Crump went back toward his truck and allegedly obtained a firearm. By that point, the employee had begun recording the interaction on his phone, according to his statement. That decision created a record investigators later used alongside witness accounts. Authorities say the recording captured part of the physical confrontation, although the full footage was not publicly available in the sources reviewed for this article.
The affidavit says Crump grabbed the worker around the neck and also went after his phone. Authorities said the recording captured Crump threatening to kill the employee while holding him. The employee tried to get away, investigators said. According to his account, Crump then raised the firearm and shot him. The worker was hit once in the arm. He survived, and emergency crews took him to a hospital with injuries officials said were not life-threatening.
A witness described another part of the encounter to detectives. Authorities said the witness saw two men arguing in the warehouse parking lot and noticed that one of them was holding a firearm. The affidavit says Crump punched the employee first and that the employee punched back. Investigators allege Crump then fired. That description gives authorities an account independent of the wounded worker’s statement and is one reason the case does not rest solely on what the victim remembered after being injured.
Even so, detectives documented an important uncertainty. When investigators interviewed the injured employee, he was unable to identify Crump as the shooter, according to the affidavit. Police did not conceal that limitation in their account of the case. Instead, they cited other evidence when explaining why they believed Crump was the man involved. That distinction matters in an allegation involving multiple forms of proof because a victim’s description of events and a victim’s ability to identify a suspect are separate evidentiary questions.
Investigators said other witnesses supplied photographs and video from the confrontation. Detectives later compared Crump with the person shown in the footage and said he appeared to be the same man. They also noted a necklace that authorities said matched one visible on the person recorded at the warehouse. Those comparisons are investigative assertions and have not been tested in a completed trial. Crump is accused of the crime, and the state would have to prove the charge under the standards that apply in criminal court.
After the shooting, investigators say the semi-truck left the warehouse. Crump was working as a third-party contractor associated with Road Dog Logistics, according to reports citing the affidavit. He contacted the company and said there had been an “incident,” but authorities said he did not explain what had happened. The company was nevertheless able to determine where its truck was traveling because the vehicle was equipped with GPS tracking.
The location information showed the semi heading north through Jacksonville and into Georgia, investigators said. Florida authorities shared information about the wanted vehicle. In Glynn County, Georgia, law enforcement located a truck matching the description associated with the Orlando case. Officers conducted a stop and took Crump into custody. He was subsequently returned to Florida, bringing the interstate search to an end without any publicly reported additional confrontation during his arrest.
For the wounded worker, the immediate consequence was medical rather than fatal. Authorities consistently described the gunshot injury as not life-threatening, and the sources reviewed for this article do not report that his condition later worsened. They also do not publicly identify him. Keeping the reporting limited to the facts released by authorities avoids making assumptions about his recovery, employment status or any longer-term effect of the shooting that has not been documented.
For Crump, the immediate consequence was a serious felony case. After extradition, he appeared before an Orange County judge. Local reporting said he was held without bond and that the court appointed a public defender. He faced attempted second-degree murder with a firearm. Reports published shortly after the arrest listed Sept. 10 as the next scheduled hearing, though a reliable later account establishing the result of that hearing or a final disposition of the case was not located during this review.
The affidavit leaves some questions unresolved. It does not establish in the publicly reported portions why the dispute escalated so rapidly, beyond the disagreement over waiting for the delivery. It also does not replace the need for prosecutors to establish identity and intent through admissible evidence. What it does provide is a sequence built from several sources: the employee’s account of the late arrival, a witness’s description of the fight and shot, recordings of part of the encounter, the employer’s GPS data and the arrest in Georgia.
Those allegations will ultimately be tested through the criminal process rather than decided by the arrest affidavit itself. The latest verified reports reviewed for this article said Crump had been returned to Orange County and was being held without bond. No reliable later source located in the search confirmed a plea, dismissal, trial verdict or other final resolution, leaving the attempted murder accusation pending in the latest independently verified public reporting available here.
Author note: Last updated Oct. 20, 2026.