Pizza deliveryman wounds teen during robbery
By BEN DOBBIN, Associated Press Writer
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - A pizza deliveryman in Rochester who got into a tussle with a robber ended up in the hospital Friday with a bullet wound in the neck. Another deliveryman in Buffalo who said he was confronted by three bandits fought back, shooting a 15-year-old suspect twice in the back.
The wounded pizzeria employee, a 21-year-old, was seriously injured and appears to have suffered some paralysis, authorities said. The teenager was in stable condition with wounds not believed to be life-threatening.
While making a stop in a neighborhood north of downtown Rochester at around 2:15 a.m., a deliveryman was still sitting in his car when he was approached by a young man wielding a silver handgun, police said. They got into a brief altercation before the gun went off and the robber fled.
"The suspect asked him for money and he told him his company doesn't allow him to carry cash and that's when the suspect shot him,
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