Pizza Deliveryman Shares Story About Being Robbed at Gunpoint

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A New Haven pizza shop employee is grateful to be alive after finding himself face-to-face with four armed and masked men and an accomplice while he was making a delivery on Sunday night.

"They have guns that they put on my stomach," said Yasin Elibul, who quickly realized that the order from West Park Avenue just before 7 p.m. on Sunday was not really for a pizza delivery. "When they showed me gun, I thought. ‘My family,’" Elibul said.

The robbers took his money, driver's license, credit card and phone.

Elibul, who said he was more shocked than scared, went back to Alpha Delta Pizza on Elm Street and called the authorities.

Police said the residents of the home on West Park Avenue had no knowledge of the robbery and had never placed an order. Authorities believe the robbers sent the order to an address other than their own and waited for the delivery driver to arrive, which has become a common practice.

Last month in Hamden, two people robbed a deliveryman at gunpoint on Woodin Street.

Elibul said he’s grateful to be alive and plans to protect himself by not making a delivery where he sees anything suspicious going on.

"If something happens to me they will get sad," he said.

Susan West said she had no idea what was going on outside her home.

"We were home and had no idea that anyone was in front of their home," West said.

This is not the first time this has happened, West said. The night before Halloween, a delivery man for a Chinese restaurant was robbed.

"We had no idea until the police told us later that somewhere, either coming to our house or going back to his car, he was robbed," West said about that robbery. "We try to protect ourselves as much as possible."
 

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