Fort Pierce, Florida

From West Palm Beach’s WPEC.com of November 10, 2005

Family of Slain Newspaper Carrier Sues

The family of a newspaper deliveryman shot and killed on his route has filed suit against the paper.

A robber shot 32-year-old Daniel DeStefano in Ft. Pierce February 1st.

He died the next day.

DeStefano delivered papers for the Fort Pierce News Tribune and had asked to be switched to a different route because he felt unsafe.

He was even carrying a gun at the time of the shooting, and fired a shot at his suspected attacker, Steven Hayward.

The victim's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against Scripps Treasure Coast Publishing, the publisher of the paper.

Good guys don't always win.