Pizza guy thwarts carjacker, still delivers
Feb 20, 2012, 5:19 PM | Updated: Feb 21, 2012, 8:28 am
A pizza man thwarted a would-be carjacker in Burien, and finished his deliveries before calling 911.
A very dedicated pizza man thwarted a would-be carjacker in Burien Saturday night, and finished his deliveries before calling 911.
“I called police probably a half an hour after it happened,” said 29-year-old Michael Ingram, who works as a delivery man for Bella Luna Pizza and Pasta. “I collected my thoughts not knowing what to do, and yeah, I delivered the pizzas first.”
Ingram said he was driving along South 152nd Street when a man came out of nowhere and tried to get into his car.
“He’s yelling and screaming at the front of my car and tries to open the door, meanwhile I’m hitting the gas pedal trying to go around him,” Ingram said. “He looked like he was under the influence of drugs.”
Ingram got away, but the driver of a truck behind him wasn’t so lucky. The suspect pulled out a gun, and jumped into the truck’s bed.
“He’s smacking the gun on the roof of their truck,” Ingram said.
The driver slammed into the back of Ingram’s vehicle several times before crashing into a telephone pole, said Ingram.
A police cruiser was nearby, so Ingram said he left the scene out of fear that the suspect still had a gun.
“I wasn’t about to stick around,” he said.
Cindi West with the King County Sherriff’s Office said both the suspect and driver of the truck were injured.
