HOUSTON — Houston police are on the hunt for two violent robbers who they said held up a pizza delivery driver late Saturday night.
The driver was beaten, robbed at gunpoint, and had his car stolen.
Police believe it was a set-up orchestrated by the suspects who called in the pizza order to be delivered to an address where they were waiting nearby.
“This has been a safe neighborhood for all my life,” Michael Olsen said while standing outside of his house in a neighborhood not far from River Oaks. “It’s kind of sad that it’s changed.”
Olsen grew up in a home in Houston’s Glendower Court subdivision, where he has lived, literally, his entire life. In the more than 60 years that he’s been there, he’s never seen anything like what happened on Saturday night.
“I was awakened by the doorbell ringing, my dog barking,” Olsen said. “I went to the door there were two HPD officers.”
Olsen wasn’t sure what they wanted; it was 1 a.m.
“They asked me if I had ordered a pizza, and I said, ‘No, I’ve been asleep,’” Olsen said. “And they said, ‘Somebody ordered a pizza from this address.’”
Then the officers explained to him what happened. Olsen immediately went to check his security camera video.
“I was horrified when I saw the video of what had happened,” Olsen said.
In the video, you see the Papa John’s delivery driver pull up outside Olsen’s home. Then, out of the shadows, two men converged on the driver from either side. Then, without warning, the driver was sucker punched.
“The taller guy on the left just head slams him in the neck. You can see his neck just wobble,” Olsen said.
Then, the driver was held at gunpoint while he was robbed. In less than a minute, the suspects stole the driver’s money, car and pizza. KHOU 11 stopped by the Papa John’s location on South Shepherd where the driver works. We asked the manager about the incident, but he would only say, “No comment.” We asked the manager if he could at least tell us how the driver was doing, but again he would only say, “No comment.”
Houston police said they were still searching for suspects responsible for the attack.