Pizza Delivery Man Shot in Detroit

(Detroit, Michigan) A 19-year-old male college student, Tim McKenna, suffered a chest wound after being shot while delivering pizza.

In the wake of the shooting, a Jets Pizza franchise in Dearborn ruled it will no longer deliver to Detroit after dark. Before the shooting, they sent two drivers to every nighttime Detroit delivery, one of whom was armed, Joan McKenna said.

“They usually send somebody with a guy … who carries a gun,” she said. “Usually they have two go into Detroit after dark, if they have a delivery … One guy has a legal, he can carry a gun. That night, Timmy was the only one left, they had this one run to do, he said ‘yeah, I’ll do it.’ He’s a kid, he doesn’t think anything’s going to happen to him.”

Tim McKenna was shot in the ribs, and the bullet hit a lung, but he survived and plans to return in the fall to Adrian College, where he plays football. Pizza delivery was his summer job.

Police are searching for leads to the shooter.

The fact that an armed escort customarily rides along on after-dark pizza deliveries in Detroit is arguably a strong indication that violent crime is ubiquitous in the Motor City.