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From the Charlotte Observer today;

EAST CHARLOTTE
Pizza driver shoots, kills armed robber
DA office will review evidence to see whether charges are warranted
MARK PRICE
msprice@charlotteobserver.com

A driver for Domino's Pizza fatally shot an armed robber Tuesday as he was delivering a pizza at an east Charlotte apartment complex, Charlotte Mecklenburg police said.

Demetrius Jerome Wright, who died at the scene, is one of two people who allegedly tried to rob the delivery man at the Green Briar Apartments, off North Sharon Amity Road, police said.

The identity of the delivery man and specifics of the case were not released.

Investigators say the incident occurred about 9 p.m. at 3555 Spanish Quarter Circle, when two suspects approached the delivery man with a gun and demanded money.

Wright, 25, was shot multiple times by the delivery man, officials said. The delivery man, who was not injured, stayed at the scene until police arrived.

No charges have been filed against him. But evidence in the case will eventually be turned over to the district attorney's office, to see if charges are called for, officials said.

It's against policy for Domino's Pizza employees to be armed on the job, said company spokesman Damien Carper. However, disciplinary action will not be considered in the matter until after the police finish the investigation, he said.

The employee, who could lose his job, is a "seasoned" delivery man in his 50s, who worked with another pizza delivery business before joining Domino's a year ago, Carper said.

"I don't know if this employee has been robbed before, but we have had other employees robbed while delivering. We have had one (from that store) robbed ... a number of months ago," said Carper.

Food delivery has been named among the nation's most dangerous jobs by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which takes into account both robberies and traffic accidents.

Statistics for Charlotte show there was an average of one such robbery a week in 2007, according to police.

Carper noted the incident could lead to a suspension of deliveries to that area, if a review shows a trend of violence against Domino's employees.

"Stores keep a log of incidents that we review in cases like this," he said. "In the last several years, we've seen robberies go down. Our drivers don't carry more than $20 in cash on them. A lot of business today is done by credit cards."

The good guys don't always finish last!

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FishHunt said:
Our drivers don't carry more than $20 in cash on them. A lot of business today is done by credit cards."

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This has always bugged me.
If I have a party and order a bunch of pizzas, and pay $40 cash - tell me how the delivery guy is going to not carry > $20 with him.

The "smart" crooks keep an eye out for a guy delivering to an active party, they are most likely to pay cash. Then rob him on hsi way back once he has been paid.

I'm just sayin...
 
If some one is going to rob you at gun point them you better assume they have the intention of shooting you.

So what if he looses his job at least he is still alive.
 
I'd do the same thing if I was the delivery driver; and don't feel sorry for anyone that tries to pull crap like this off and ends up 6 feet under
 
Oh come on you guys,
you know good and well that it is against the law to defend yourself. The pizza man will go to jail.

Hell, I heard on the news about a woman suing a company because she tripped over a todler in their store and broke her ankle. IT WAS HER CHILD.... She won several THOUSAND dollars from the lawsuit.
Yeah, as if that isnt bad enough, there was a man in Arkansas who had to pay his neighbor like $14,000 because of a dog bite. The neighbor jumped the fence and shot the dog with a pellet gun, gets bitten, and payed for it???

Trust me, if the robber's family sues for wrongfull death, the can get several thousand too... Its against the law to be of sane mind and defend yourself. Society as a whole, is very F'd up these days.
 
Road_Warrior85 said:
Oh come on you guys,
you know good and well that it is against the law to defend yourself. The pizza man will go to jail.
Hell, I heard on the news about a woman suing a company because she tripped over a todler in their store and broke her ankle. IT WAS HER CHILD.... She won several THOUSAND dollars from the lawsuit.
Yeah, as if that isnt bad enough, there was a man in Arkansas who had to pay his neighbor like $14,000 because of a dog bite. The neighbor jumped the fence and shot the dog with a pellet gun, gets bitten, and payed for it???
Trust me, if the robber's family sues for wrongfull death, the can get several thousand too... Its against the law to be of sane mind and defend yourself. Society as a whole, is very F'd up these days.
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http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp
 
SkyHiK5 said:
http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp
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Ok.... You got me on that one..... But in all honesty, we have all seen and heard of other lawsuits just as riduculous, THAT WHERE TRUE.
I just cant remember any of the details on them, and somebody sent me that stella awards email today, so I used them.
In alabama, if somebody breaks into your house and you shoot them, they can, AND HAVE, sue you for their injuries. The only way to defend your property and not get in trouble, is to kill them, BUT they have to be inside your house (If they are on property, or coming in window/doorway, and you kill them, you are liable for it, they have to be inside the house)
off topic but just as dumb, in alabama, you can legally plant video cameras in another's house and get away with it. Now I have been living in NC for the past 3 years, so that could be changed by now. i know they where trying to pass a law on that a few years ago, but if nothing else, you could do so 6 years ago.
 
Rule of thumb. Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
 
Per some more well defined self-defense laws (thanks to concealed carry permits coming into play in the last few years). You can defend your self with deadly force if you feel your life is being threatened or there is a threat of server bodily harm.

Also, If someone is trying to forcefully enter your home or business without permission you can shoot them right then, even through the door. Once they are in your home you can only use deadly force if the first statement applies. Otherwise you have the responsiblity to retreat.
(But, if the person you use deadly force on is dead, they can't say they weren't threatening your life. So just be a good shot.)

There's a lot more to it than what I wrote but thats the cliff notes. There's a discussion about this over on carolinashootersforum.com has more of the legal details.

http://carolinashootersforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=2155
 
As a former Domino's Delivery guy, good for him. I had a couple 'hairy' situations, but was never held at gun point, and good thing too, as it would have ended up as this case, or with me dead.

Most delivery guys know their surroundings, and can avoid things like this.
 
I delivered for Domino's when I was 18. I frequently carried more than $20 just because I was too busy/lazy to drop cash in my box when coming back to the store to pick up the next pizza for delivery.

I have one funny story from the job. I use to deliver in a Honda CRX, and would haul ass around some of the back roads/curves where my area was. So this one night I guess I was hauling some serious ass around curves and delivered this pan pizza loaded with toppings. When I got back to the store, the manager told me all the toppings had slid off the pizza and to one side of the box:lol:. They made her another pizza, and I had to deliver it to her. That was the best job ever.

A coworker of mine at that job used to drive a Samurai, and I remember him getting up on two wheels occassionally when bouncing back in to the parking lot. Good times.
 
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