Posted on 09/09/2022 5:25:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A vacant house in Detroit is being used as a place for delivery driver ambush robberies - and the latest turned deadly.
On Tuesday night a 62-year-old was shot and killed at that house. Now police want to catch the suspect before it happens again. This house, at 16557 Lenore Street near Six Mile and Telegraph, has been in shambles for years.
"As I was growing up it was a beautiful house, He extended the garage he had race cars, it was a good family house, it’s just not anymore," said Jim Gibbs who lives next door.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox2detroit.com ...
No peace until we put get the Amish under control
The same place was where two others were robbed but didn’t die and this one was robbed and killed.
Detroit — A city crew on Thursday boarded up a westside abandoned house that was used by criminals this week to lure three pizza delivery drivers into ambush robberies, one of whom was reportedly killed when he confronted his attacker.
The vacant house at 16557 Lenore Street in Detroit is the site of three robberies since Saturday, with the most recent incident ending in the shooting death Tuesday of 62-year-old Patrick Higgins, said Cmdr. Michael McGinnis, head of the Detroit Police Major Crimes Section.
McGinnis did not identify where the drivers worked, but he said employees from three different companies were lured to the vacant house near McNichols and Telegraph. When the drivers arrived, they were robbed, McGinnis said.
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As I recalled on FR last week, I was a pizza delivery guy for an independent place inside Detroit in the late 1960s. The owner’s mother from Italy made the sauce every day.
The job opening came because the guy before me was held up by two guys one night. He remembered the cold feeling of the steel against his throat. He quit and I got the job.
The son of obama...again.
Motown!!!
That’s why I carried a six shooter when I worked for domino’s
That’s why I carried a six shooter when I worked for domino’s
That has to be about the most desperate and stupid crime ahead of bank robbery. How much cash could a delivery guy be carrying? With a bank, there will be cash, but the clearance rate is very high. With this - there is little or no money. WTF? Senselessness should be an explicitly aggravating factor in sentencing.
For what? Twenty bucks to make change?
Rule 1. Don’t deliver to abandoned houses.
Rule 2. Conceal carry.
Rule 3. Have backup.
They are our national cancer. They are tumors that can't easily be resected.
THAT is the type of life they’ve earned.
this happened 10 houses down where i used to live....
Reminds me of what prosecuters called, the “Thrill Killings” of two pizza delivery guys, young guys, back in 1997 in Hardyston (Sussex County), NJ. Giorgio, 25, was the owner of the pizza place and Jeremy, 22, was an employee, both were hard working wonderful young men. Jeremy had 4 or 5 jobs, a great kid, he lived right across the street from the pizza place. I lived in an apartment complex behind where the pizza place was, in a strip mall. My son was 14 at the time and friends with both guys. He’d ride his bike up to the pizza place and Giorgio and Jeremy would kabitz with him. He was devastated that they were both murdered by two useless pieces of sh*t. The one said he did it for the thrill of it, hence the media title for the killings. The younger killer even knew the one victim, Jeremy.
Also, about a month after the killings, Whorealdo had the still in shock parents of Giorgio, the owner, on his afternoon show. He kept at them with the usual stupid questions of ‘how does it feel’ that your son was murdered. The poor mother couldn’t take it and walked off the show in tears. I’ve despised Whorealdo ever since and they never should have agreed to go on his show.
To this very day, Georgio’s parents, Angelo and Connie are running the pizza place for their son. Can’t believe it has been 25 years, I remember it all like yesterday.
https://www.njherald.com/story/news/crime/2017/04/19/1997-thrill-killings-2-pizza/4127116007/
3 drivers robbed at that same fake address.
I guess the workers don’t talk to each other.
You’d think word would get around, and they would just stop delivering to that house or to that neighborhood.
Hmm…that’s fine and all, but obviously they’ll just pick another of Detroit’s endless supply of empty houses to commit the same crime. Here’s a crazy thought: How about finally admitting who is responsible for the vast majority of violent crime in the city, and putting the screws to them in every way possible while withdrawing anything even resembling a service from that hell hole until the “black community” finally deals with these animals in their midst themselves?
The problem is, I suspect there are few truly good normal people remaining in these urban ‘hoods. I’ve mentioned this in the past, but just look at what happens when the police stage a “bait car” in one of these places. The moment they think it’s unattended, absolute hordes of human roaches come running from every direction and swarm all over the car, even fighting over who is going to get to steal it. These types of places are beyond hope, except for the few good people who are not criminals and want a better life. For those few, I’d do anything to help them, but as for the rest just bring in the scoops, Soylent Green style.
I corrected once in my post about the thrill killing title being created by the prosecutor, not the media. Forgot to correct it at the end of the same paragraph.
Little remembered brief role for a woman working for Matlock had the nice detective assistant Conrad McMasters abducted, disarmed and ready to be shot by the thugs in a house.
On her own the woman got a delivery outfit and rang the bell, trying to convince the thugs their address had the pizza ordered. Finally she said, opening the box, “Omigod there isn’t even a pizza in here. But there is this.” (Took out a .45 and aimed at the first guy’s face.)
I was watching some homeless druggy talking to the reporter on TV (Seattle). She said if you know the right people and buy enough you can buy one pill of Fentynal for $1. And in an hour of asking around on the street anyone can get a pill for $10. I have no idea how long the effect lasts. Although with many of these people, one pill will last a lifetime.
I went to college for my political science degree in Detroit including during the July, 1967 Detroit riots. Commuted from a safe, decent suburb.
They say historically “white flight” really took off right after that. People who whined “why do you desert Detroit? Why not stay and sacrifice to someday make the city safe again.”
That was 55 years ago and counting. Still isn’t safe.
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