Pizza Delivery Driver Dies After Shooting

NASHVILLE, TN — The pizza delivery driver shot in the head during a robbery in North Nashville Friday has died.

Doniyor Abdumadjidov, a 40-year-old immigrant from Uzbekistan and father of four, was found by a passerby on Batavia Street lying in a pool of blood next to his car around 1 a.m. Friday. He was delivering pizzas for New York Pizza on Elliston. The address Abdumadjidov was given did not order the pizza.

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Adam Payz, the owner of New York Pizza, told WKRN Abdumadjidov's four children and wife arrived in the United States about four months ago.

“He has been a great man with us, a great personality and he has been wonderful. I care about his kids with the wife. She is new in town, new in the country first of all," Payz told the station.

Friends of Abdumadjidov set up a GoFundMe for the family (the page is in Uzbek; a Google translation is available).

Image via GoFundMe