A DoorDash driver is speaking publicly for the first time after being shot during a delivery in Mesquite.

Manuel Gonzalez, a husband and father of three daughters, is recovering from multiple gunshot wounds. He returned home on Wednesday after spending three weeks in the hospital.

“We cried together,” Gonzalez said.

Gonzalez was delivering an order to a home on Birch Bend shortly after midnight on Oct. 27. He said two women outside the home refused to give him the PIN number required to complete the transaction.

After three attempts, Gonzalez said he was finally given the correct pin. The women went back inside, but within a minute, he said, two other people came out and began shooting—hitting him more than six times.

“My husband was screaming at the top of his lungs for help, and the

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