Posted on 05/21/2004 10:26:28 AM PDT by NJ Freeper
A Pizza Hut deliveryman who police say fatally shot a man on the city's east side Monday night says he acted in self-defense.
Ronald Honeycutt, 38, of Carmel, says he had just delivered a pizza at the Oaks Apartments around 11 p.m. Monday when a man approached him with a gun.
Honeycutt (pictured, right), who was near his delivery van and had his own gun, fired 15 times at the man, later identified as Jerome Brown, 20, of Indianapolis. Brown was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
"The only thing I can do is protect myself, and if that means shooting somebody that intends to shoot you, so be it," Honeycutt told RTV6's Jack Rinehart Tuesday. "I'm sick of the crime and I'm sick of being victimized."
Honeycutt said that after the shooting, he picked up Brown's handgun and drove to a Pizza Hut, where sheriff's deputies took him into custody. Police questioned Honeycutt and then released him.
Pizza Hut, which has a policy forbidding deliverymen to carry weapons, fired Honeycutt soon after the shooting, Rinehart reported.
The county coroner's office Tuesday determined Brown died of multiple gunshot wounds.
Honeycutt said he used all the ammunition he had because Brown kept standing.
"The guy literally stood there the whole time with his arm up," Honeycutt said. "The whole time, I'm popping off rounds ... (and) the guy's still standing there after 15 rounds went off in him."
Honeycutt, who has a valid license to carry a firearm, said he planned to buy another handgun and go back to work with a different pizza business.
The Marion County prosecutor's office will review the case to determine whether Honeycutt acted in self-defense, Rinehart reported.
Don't like the rules? Don't work for Pizza Hut!
Not so Jim. I use the S&W .40 for stopping power in self defense. The last statistics I saw had the .40 S&W loaded with COR-BON 135 GR with 97% - 98% "One Shot Stopping Power." Your .45 Auto is a fine piece and with a 230 GR Hydra-Shok or a 230 GR Gold Saber will give you a 93% to 94% "One Shot Stopping Power".
The added bonus with the .40 is that my wife and kids can easlily handle this gun also.
The 9mm is a good gun with the right ammo. You need to load it with COR-BON 115-GR JHP+P for maximum "One Shot Stopping Power" (91%).
I'll stick with my .44 mag, when you care to send the very best.
One-shot stopping power:
http://www.alpharubicon.com/leo/calloadgoshin.htm
The only special privilege he had afterward is to still be alive. Just what special privileges are you talking about?
Quite a few years ago a deliveryman from Dominos was fired for using a handgun to protect himself. I have never bought anything from them since then and I shall now add Pizza Hut to the no-buy-from list.
.40 S & W??!! For wimps!
A real he-man's (or she-woman's, in today's society) round is the classic .45 ACP. 230 grains of jacketed hollowpoints, such as Federal Hydra-Shoks do just fine.
"If he didn't get fired the company would have to allow all employees the ability to register for a carry permit."
The company has no say about any person registering for a carry permit.
The company has no say about any person having/maintaining a carry permit.
The company should not have the ability to infringe on a constitutional right of the employee.
We need to stop allowing arbitrary institutions to usurp our rights. If the employer does not want you using force to protect their property or money, that is their choice.
When the employer believes that they can tell you not to defend yourself to protect your LIFE, that is a problem.
Now that's what I call a pizza man with an attitude. Whatever you make sure to tip him well or else...
If the pizza delivery guy had not been carrying a gun, we might be reading this headline instead:
Pizza delivery person murdered - Robbery is probable motive
What if the company policy said "no blacks" or "no women" or "no senior citizens".
Screw "company policy".
Yep. Companies can already run credit reports on you. How difficult would it be for them to determine if you have a CCW 'permit' or not? And then how difficult would it be for them to simply announce a "policy" whereby if you wanted to work there, you had to surrender your permit?
Tyranny is still tyranny, independent of who the "boss man" is. A tyranny ran by multinational corporations (which control the gov't) is no different than a tyranny ran by the gov't (which controls the corporations).
And before you folks start spouting off about "Free enterprise", it simply doesn't exist in this country except perhaps on very small and localized levels.
The gov't and large corporations have become incestously intertwined where one does the bidding of the other, and vice versa. Neither has any loyalty to the Constitution, America, or their fellow citizens.
Roughly the same as either a Federal 9mm 135 or a Remington 147 9mm, both of which probably have a little more penetration than the .40. The forty is fine if you like it; I prefer a 9.
If I was deliverying still, I'd carry the Kel-Tec .32 I carry now. Wasting rounds, as you say, is often more a sign of bad shooting rather than underperformance of the chosen round. And we don't know which handgun, though I'm guessing by the 15 rounds fired, it was a Glock. Cheaper hi-caps available, and Sigs are probably too heavy for pizza carry.
Better yet, he should get some more range time, shot placement trumps caliber.
Sounds like, from reading just this article. But we weren't there in his shoes.
It's easy for us to be armchair quarterbacks.
Be careful not to rush to judgement.
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