There’s a common belief that having a male Instacart shopper assigned to your grocery order means bad luck. Bad luck in that they won’t actually search for the items you requested, and that they’ll pick illogical replacements. The whole experience may have you thinking it might have been less stressful to have just gone to the store yourself, but usually, that’s the extent of the bad luck.
One wife certainly wished she had gone grocery shopping herself when that bad luck turned very, very serious when her husband shot the man delivering their Instacart order.
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Vanessa Sabo greeted police in a panicked state when they arrived at her home in Pennsylvania after she called them, The Times-Tribune reported. She invited them into her home where they found her husband, Nicholas Sabo. When police asked where the gun was, he pointed to a Glock 19 next to the coffee pot. Police confiscated the weapon. Vanessa told officers that she had placed an Instacart order but did not tell her husband.
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Vanessa told police she got an alert on her phone from their security camera showing a car on the side of their house near the family vehicles and their utility trailer. She told police she believed someone was trying to break in, and told her husband. Nicholas Sabo went upstairs, grabbed his gun and shot the Instacart delivery person, Jerrie Wilchombe.
Officers found Wilchombe in his car, away from the home, which he fled after the shooting. Wilchombe’s wife, Jessica Thomas, and their daughter, Olivia Thomas, were in the car with him when he stumbled back to the car. Jessica Thomas told police the three were in the car making the delivery from Weis markets. She showed them the confirmation of the order and the details verifying their scheduled delivery.
She told police Wilchombe came back to the car bleeding from his leg. Medical professionals transported him to the Geisinger Community Medical Center where he went straight into surgery. He is in stable condition, Daily Mail reported.
Nicholas Sabo faces a charge of recklessly endangering another person. Police may press additional charges at a later date. Nicholas Sabo is set to attend a preliminary hearing on January 29, 2025. The investigation into the shooting is still ongoing.
