Yirmar Martinez was delivering a package for Amazon Flex early Monday when a man opened fire on her in a Cedar Hill driveway, striking her twice — one bullet grazing the top of her head, another hitting her lower back. She managed to drive away as the gunfire continued, then sought help. Days later, Cedar Hill police say they've made an arrest, though the suspect still hasn't been named.
The shooting happened after Martinez pulled into a driveway off North Cedar Hill Road to drop off a package, according to FOX 4 News. Martinez told the station she drove off once the man started shooting, and that he kept firing at her vehicle as she pulled away. She works through Amazon Flex, the company's independent-contractor program that lets drivers use their own cars to make deliveries.
Cedar Hill police confirmed to the station that someone has been taken into custody in connection with the shooting, but they haven't released the person's identity because charges have not yet been formally announced. That leaves the central questions in the case — who the suspect is, what exactly led to the shooting, and what charges might follow — still unanswered for now.
A Recent Arrival Facing a Frightening Ordeal
Martinez moved to Texas from Venezuela two years ago, the station reports. She is now recovering from the gunshot wounds after what should have been a routine delivery stop turned into a shooting that left her fleeing for safety down a residential street.
Not an Isolated Incident in the Region
The Cedar Hill shooting comes just over a week after another delivery driver was targeted elsewhere in Texas. On October 4, Amazon driver Luz Pereira was shot at while delivering a package in north Houston; bullets struck her vehicle but she was not hurt, according to Click2Houston. Houston police said at the time that the suspect broke through a police perimeter and could not be located, describing him as a Hispanic man in his mid-to-late 50s with a medium build.
As Univision notes, the two cases follow another Texas delivery shooting from last year: DoorDash driver Manuel González was shot while delivering food in Mesquite on October 27, 2025, and survived. A 17-year-old suspect in that case was later arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
A Job With Known Risks
Federal workplace-safety data underscores why incidents like these draw attention. Workers in transportation and material-moving occupations represented the occupational group with the most fatal work injuries in 2024, with 1,391 deaths, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics release. Federal workplace-safety guidance from OSHA also identifies delivery drivers among workers facing higher risk of violence on the job, noting that factors like time of day and location matter.
The Texas Department of Insurance has separately flagged that delivery drivers face risks ranging from theft and armed robbery to assault and homicide as part of the job. For Martinez, those statistics became a lived reality on a residential street in Cedar Hill — and for now, the community is left waiting on police to say who pulled the trigger and why.
