Armed citizens deter crime every day, yet these incidents are highly under-reported in the mainstream media. For example, yet another Georgia pizza delivery driver shot and killed an alleged armed robber this past weekend.
Glynn County police say a 37-year-old black man who served 15 years for armed robbery, but was released two years ago, returned to his criminal ways. Jeremy Hicks’s mistake this past weekend was attempting to rob an armed citizen.
Police say Hicks ordered a pizza delivered about 11 p.m. last Saturday, but when the driver went to the address it turned out to be a vacant mobile home. That’s when Hicks pulled a knife on the delivery man (who police haven’t identified). The pizza driver pulled his gun and fatally shot the felon in self-defense.
Ernest Bradham, the owner of the property, told News4Jax that no one lives there and it’s being renovated. He said he lives close by and the gunshot woke him up. “My wife came about 10 minutes later and said get up and look at all these lights at the trailer. So I got up and police cars are all down the road,” he recounted.
News4Jax notes that it remains to be seen whether the driver will lose his job as a result of his defensive gun use. Dominos, Papa John’s and other chains used to have a zero-tolerance policy towards drivers going armed on the job, but over the past few years many of the chains have changed their policy and now leave it up to individual franchise owners to determine whether or not they’ll allow concealed carry holders to carry in self-defense while they’re on the clock.
