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It's June 5th, 2026. Exactly 12 30 at night. The streets of Philadelphia are getting quiet. Most people are safe inside at their homes sleeping. But on a street corner in North Philly, a 28-year-old Indian boy is still working. His shift is not over yet. Suddenly his phone lights up. A new pizza order. Just a normal delivery. A regular thing for him. Three boxes of hot pizza to an address in North Philadelphia. Called Raymond Rosen Homes. He did not know that the address was not a delivery place. It was a grieve. Welcome to Welton Marigold. I'm your story Tana Ambaka, and tonight we're talking about a very sad and very scary case. His name was Anshul Kunchak. To understand how Anshul ended up facing a gun on a dark, finney street, we have to go back to the start. Anshal grew up in Telangana. Like many young kids across India, Anshul had a big dream. He wanted a better life. He wanted to make his parents proud. So after finishing his BTEC in Hyperbath, he packed his bags and went to the United States to study for his MBA. Think about that trip. Landing in the US carrying a heavy bag, dealing with the cold winter, student loans, and pressure from home. Ansul did everything right. He finished his MBA, he got a full-time job at a big company in Philadelphia. On paper, he was living the dream. But anyone who has lived abroad knows the hard truth. Life in America is very expensive. Rent, insurance, food, school loans, and sending money home. Regular job money is just not enough. So what do students and young immigrants do? They work extra jobs. During the week, Until wore a suit and worked at the desk. But on the weekends? On the weekends? On the weekends, he put on a jacket, got into his car and worked as a delivery driver for Pete's Pizza. Extra hours, it meant extra money. Just to pay his bills, his loan, and keep his family in India from worrying. Now let's talk about that night, June 5th, 2026. Not too long ago. It was late. The weekend rush was slowing down. Unsul's phone beeped with a new order. Three pizzas to be delivered to 233 Adler Street, Raymond Rosenholmes. The app said it was just a 10-minute drive away. Sounds easy, sounds straightforward, sounds safe, right? Wrong. Completely wrong. Adler Street is in North Philadelphia. And if you know Philly, you know North Philly has parts that are very dangerous. Gun violence, robberies, and car thefts happen there all the time. Safety warnings tell people not to walk alone on those streets at night. For a delivery driver working late, this address was very dangerous. But here's the dark side of delivery apps. Drivers do not get to pick safe neighborhoods. When an order comes, you take it or your rating goes down and you make less money. So, like every other weekend, Unshul did not think twice. He put the three pizza boxes in his car, started the engine, and drove into the dark night. He thought this was just his last delivery before going home, but he was driving right into a trap. When Anshul reached the address, everything was very quiet. Too quiet. He got out of his car with the pizzas and walked into the building courtyard. Before he could understand what was happening, someone came up close behind him. Bang, bang, bang. Three fast gunshots broke the quiet night. Anshul fell down hard on the cold ground, bleeding badly. The three pizza boxes fell around him. Minutes later, neighbors called the police because of the gunshots, and police cars rushed to the scene. They found Anshul lying faced out. He was losing a lot of blood. Paramedics rushed him to the hospital, but it was just too late. The doctors said he was dead. Just like that, in less than a minute, another dream was gone. A whole life was taken. Far away in Telantana, his family was sleeping, not knowing their world was about to break, shattered. When police looked at the crime scene at Raymond Rose and Holmes, they found something very strange. Right next to Anshul's body with the untouched pizza boxes. In his delivery bag, nobody had touched the food. And when they looked closer at the building, they realized a very scary truth. The building was completely empty. Nobody even lived there. There was no hungry customer inside. The address was actually a fake building. Police officer Scott Small and his team understood the horrible truth. This was not a random street robbery. On the contrary, it was a planned trap. Someone had made a fake pizza order to an empty building in a dangerous area, waiting in the dark for a delivery driver to show up. When detectives checked the security cameras, the nightmare became very clear. The camera showed Anshul walking toward the building with the pizzas. Right behind him, walking like shadows, with two people in dark clothes. One carrying a black backpack. They were following. Police checked Anshul's car nearby. It was locked and fine. But his phone. His phone was gone. And his wallet, that was gone too. The gold chain on his neck gone as well. They traced the phone number, used to order, the fake order. And check street cameras. The police offered a $20,000 reward for information. Now back in India, sadness turned to create anger. Unshual's sister, Fandy, and her family spoke to the media. They said this was not just bad luck. America had already hurt Unswill before. He was robbed at gunpoint a few months earlier, losing his phone and cash. His family always worried about him, but none of them thought this would happen. Then a big break in the case. On July 10th, 2026, about a month after the murder, Philadelphia police caught a suspect. His name was Sincilla Camus. And guess what? Sincere Cams was only 14 years old. Police checked his record and found he had done many bad things before, including armed robbery and carrying guns. Because his record was so bad, officials said he could be tried as an adult. Police found out the murder was a planned robbery. The fake pizza order was a trick to get a delivery driver into a dark trap. For a few dollars, a cheap phone and a necklace. A 14-year-old took a bright young life. But here is where the story gets even darker. While Sincere Camps was caught and his name was put all over the news, what about the second person you ask? Seen walking right behind him on the camera? To this day, Philadelphia police have nothing to offer about the second person. Was he caught? Is his name hidden because he's young? Or was his race the reason why the police was quiet about it? The media and the police quickly showed the face of the young black teenager but said nothing about his partner. After Anshul died, another Philadelphia delivery driver named George Johnson talked about his own scary experience. George said, people do not understand what delivery drivers go through. When you track food on a phone app, you just see it being an easy service. Of course it is when you're on your sofa. You do not see the driver walking down dark alleys at one end, facing strangers with no protection. And that is why Anshul Kunchar's story is not just a sad news story for Philadelphia. It is a real story of many Indian students who go abroad. Think about the young men and women who leave everything behind, their parents, their home, the streets of India. Just to build a better future in another country. From the outside it looks great, but the real life, it's a lot of hard work, school loans, tired shifts, and constant danger. Listen, if you're listening to this right now, whether you are a student abroad, a delivery worker doing late shifts or someone who just does late shift work or someone working hard, your life is worth much more than any delivery or any tip or any job. If you sense danger, if you feel you're being called to something that could be dangerous, trust your gut. If you feel like you know that area where you're being called is an area that's dangerous, trust your gut. And for those of us, uh and for those of us who order food, the next time you order some food, remember that person behind the app who's doing all the work, who's doing the heavy lifting. The next time you order food late at night, remember that person behind the app who's doing all the heavy lifting. They're someone's son or daughter too, and they're working for you. So consider that when you took that. That marks the end of this episode. Until the next one. Stay kind, stay safe.