ST. CHARLES COUNTY • A driver for Amazon shot in the back last week after an argument over a handicapped parking spot outside a Target store in St. Charles has filed a lawsuit against his alleged attacker.

Jaylen Walker, 21, of St. Louis, a delivery man employed by a subcontractor for the online retail giant, sued Larry Thomlison on Tuesday in St. Charles County Circuit Court. The lawsuit alleges negligence, battery and assault and seeks punitive damages.

Thomlison, who turns 66 on Thursday, was charged last week with first-degree assault and armed criminal action. His attorney in the criminal case could not immediately be reached.

Police said Thomlison shot Walker just before noon March 5 outside the Target at 3881 Mexico Road. The lawsuit says Walker’s gunshot wound to the back has paralyzed him from the waist down. It claims Walker had been helping a co-worker who was behind schedule on deliveries when Thomlison confronted him.