A Pizza Hut driver was allegedly robbed at gunpoint Saturday night while delivering pizzas on Jefferson Avenue, an Oak Ridge Police Department report said.
The suspected robber allegedly stole the 25-year-old victim’s cell phone, three pizzas, and $70 in cash at about 10:10 p.m. Saturday, the report said.
Pizza Hut had received a call from someone who identified himself as George W. and ordered three pizzas at 9:22 p.m. Saturday. But when the driver delivered the pizzas to the vacant duplex on the east side of Jefferson Avenue, there were no cars parked there, the home was dark, and no one answered the door or the phone.
As the driver returned to his car, a man yelled at him from across the street and then confronted him with what appeared to be a blue semi-automatic handgun, the report said. The suspect poked the driver in the chest with the handgun several times and told him to “give me everything you got.”
The victim said the suspect then told him to get in his car and leave, and the delivery driver did not see which way the suspect fled.
The report said the driver had worked at Pizza Hut three months and was making his first delivery of the night when the robbery occurred.
The victim called police from the Jefferson Avenue Rocky Top after the robbery, but officers were unable to locate the suspect.
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