NEW surveillance footage has emerged in the mysterious disappearance of a DoorDash driver and dad-of-three, showing someone abandoning his car before walking away into the night.
Zachariah Schuck, 32, vanished on October 22 after completing a food delivery in Pennsylvania, leaving his family desperate for answers more than two weeks later.
The black-and-white footage, captured by a home’s doorbell camera on Croxall Avenue in Hopewell Township, shows a vehicle identified as Zachariah’s black Chevrolet Impala pulling up and parking along the road.
Moments later, a person can be seen getting out of the driver’s seat and walking down the street, leaving the vehicle behind.
The footage was shown by local news station WPXI-TV, also known as Channel 11, on Monday, as police revealed a more detailed timeline of Zachariah’s final known movements.
The footage is not clear enough to positively identify the individual, leaving police and the missing man’s family unable to determine what happened in the moments leading up to the vehicle being abandoned.
The U.S. Sun , Carl, who said his son completed a DoorDash delivery to a home in Beaver County shortly before 7 pm.
Around an hour later, the doorbell camera captured his vehicle being parked in Hopewell Township, leaving a critical gap in his movements that investigators are now attempting to piece together.
Zachariah had been in contact with his wife, Jenn, that evening and reportedly reassured her that he was heading home after finishing his deliveries.
But he never returned, and police said his cellphone lost coverage at approximately 8 pm, around the same time his car was seen being abandoned.
His father told The U.S. Sun that his son’s black Chevrolet Impala was eventually discovered on October 24 after information about the vehicle circulated on social media.
Investigators examined the car and discovered that its keys had been left in the ignition, while the gas tank was completely empty.
Carl said the mystery surrounding the person in the footage had left him struggling to establish where searches should be focused.
“Once we can identify who got out of the vehicle, then we could determine what to do next,” he told The U.S. Sun.
“They have not identified who got out of that vehicle. I can’t verify where to start searching.”
The worried father admitted he fears his son may have either walked away voluntarily or fallen victim to a crime.
“There’s two ways to look at it. Either he had an emotional event and left, or something happened to him that’s criminal,” Carl said.
Carl is urging people living in the area to check their own security cameras for anything that could help establish who was driving the Impala or where the individual went afterward.
Police have since carried out around Croxall Avenue and nearby wooded areas, deploying drones and search-and-rescue dogs, but have found no trace of the missing driver.
Another crucial part of the investigation centers on the Vanport Bridge, where Zachariah’s wife told authorities she had last tracked his location using the Life360 app.
Pennsylvania State Police searched the bridge area on the night he disappeared but failed to locate Zachariah or his cellphone, according to North Sewickley Township Police Chief Tyler Kelosky.
Kelosky has confirmed that investigators are examining all possibilities, including whether foul play may have been involved, but stressed that police do not want to jump to conclusions without evidence.
Meanwhile, Carl to The U.S. Sun that Zachariah had recently lost his job managing truck-leasing branches and had been experiencing financial difficulties.
Despite those challenges, the father insisted there had been no obvious warning signs that his son was struggling emotionally, describing him as someone who generally remained positive even during difficult times.
Zachariah, whose family includes a newborn baby, is described as six feet tall, weighing around 160 pounds, with brown hair and green eyes.
He was last reported wearing a blue-and-red flannel shirt, blue jeans, and brown boots.
As detectives continue examining the footage and reconstructing his final known movements, his family remains desperate to establish whether he walked away from the vehicle himself or something more sinister happened.
“He has all of our support. And all we want is for him to come home. And then we can work everything out,” Carl told The U.S. Sun.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the North Sewickley Township Police Department at 724-843-3421 or 724-843-8118.
