The Missouri man who shot and paralyzed an Amazon driver for parking in a disabled parking spot was convicted of first-degree assault and armed criminal action on March 13.
Seventy-year-old Larry Thomlison was found guilty of shooting then-21-year-old Jaylen Walker in the back and paralyzing him from the waist down at a Target store in St. Charles, Missouri, on March 5, 2019, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Walker illegally parked his Amazon delivery van in a disability-accessible parking spot behind the Target located at 3881 Mexico Road as he talked with another Amazon delivery driver.
Thomlison was driving a vehicle with a disabled permit placard and took a photograph of the Amazon van before posting the image to social media and confronting Walker. As Thomlison tried to take a picture of him, Walker pushed his hand away, prompting Thomlison to punch him. The two men began to tussle and fell to the ground when Thomlison pulled out his gun.
Video footage of the shooting showed Walker trying to run away from Thomlison before he was twice shot in the back.
“He fell to the ground, and I started to run, and I looked back, and he was fumbling for a gun on his hip. Right, when I turned the corner, I was shot,” Walker later said.
He added that he was shocked to see Thomlison pull out his gun.
“When he pulled the gun out, my eyes were just amazed,” said Walker. “I tried to run in between two cars. He had a nice aim and hit me right in the spine.”
