Pizza delivery man shot after refusing to give robbers the pie

DEERFIELD BEACH – A pizza delivery man who was “just trying to earn a living” was shot in the leg multiple times Wednesday night after refusing to give up the pizza that had been ordered from a Deerfield Beach apartment complex.

The shooting happened shortly before 10 p.m. at the Tallman Pines apartment community near the 500 block of Northeast 41st Street.

Joanne Orcutt says her 40-year-old son works nights delivering pizza.

She was shaken to get a call about her son being shot and didn’t know all the specifics but says she was told that a group of young people demanded that he give them a box of pizza he was supposed to deliver.

“He walked away from and they shot him twice or times in the leg,” Orcutt said.

Her son will survive the ordeal, Orcutt said, but his wounds will keep him “laid up for a while.”

Investigators from the Broward Sheriff’s Office were at the scene for several hours examining the apartment complex parking lot area where the shooting happened and taking away evidence in large brown paper bags. them three

A security guard at the complex, Earl Saunders, said surveillance video suggests the incident was set up by three to four teens who called for the pizza delivery. “I heard they got away with nothing,” he said.

So far there are no known or arrests in the case.

“You wonder what possesses someone to shoot someone for a box of pizza,” Orcutt said.

“I know there’s desperate people, but this seems really unbelievable to have this happen.” suspects

Correspondent Jim Donnelly contributed to this report.