Despite how delicious a good pizza can be, everyone knows it isn’t great for their health, but for one would-be robber, it actually proved fatal. Such was the case in Houston last weekend when a pizza delivery driver delivered more than just the pepperoni when he fatally shot one of two men who attempted to rob him, police reported.
The incident occurred around 12:40 a.m. Sunday at an apartment complex, WTHR reported. The driver had arrived to deliver a pizza when he was confronted by two men demanding money “at gunpoint.” HPD stated that the driver, facing an imminent threat, pulled out his own firearm and fired, killing one of the assailants. The second suspect fled the scene.
The driver was unharmed in the confrontation. HPD Sgt. Mark Holbrook commented on the incident, saying, “We’re not sure how the pizza delivery went so wrong that somebody wound up getting shot, but that is what we’re investigating right now.”
Maybe it went so wrong when the guys tried to rob the driver and being a legally armed Texan he said, “screw this.”
HPD has not confirmed whether a gun was found on the deceased suspect’s body. The man who was killed was identified by his brother, Ameer White, as 21-year-old Areyeh White, although HPD has yet to officially confirm this identity.
Ameer White expressed skepticism about the situation, stating, “They say he was the pizza delivery guy, but we don’t have a receipt that he was buying a pizza. If you were the pizza delivery guy, why were you armed?”
While the loss of his brother is understandably upsetting, a better question he might ask is “why was his brother allegedly robbing a guy simply trying to deliver a pizza?”
“Why is a pizza delivery guy armed?” may have been the last thing his brother was asking himself as he floated toward the light, upset that he had underestimated his chosen victim and pondering his own final destination.
In an odd twist of words, WTHR reported in the lede of the story that “a pizza delivery driver fatally shot a man after an argument” but then two paragraphs later said “the driver went to the address to deliver a pizza and was confronted by two men demanding money at gunpoint.”
Where most logical thinking people come from, a robbery is hardly a mere “argument,” like they had a different of opinions. It is a crime, plain and simple. When you try to rob someone and the cops catch you, you don’t get to say, “oh we were just having a little disagreement” when the situation doesn’t play out your way. It also doesn’t work when your victim doesn’t sit back and wait for the cops to come to his rescue.
Oddly, police did say “the man who was killed was a customer.” Guess in this situation, the customer “wasn’t” right.
HPD told WTHR that the case will be referred to a grand jury for further review so hopefully more details will come to light at that time to clear up for sure if this was a righteous defensive shoot or there was more to the story as the grieving brother suggests.
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