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'We're a driving ATM': Pizza delivery driver's car stolen at gunpoint


A Vasilios Pizza delivery truck. (WJAR){ }
A Vasilios Pizza delivery truck. (WJAR)
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Police are looking for at least three suspects in an alleged carjacking of a Vasilios Pizza delivery driver.

The driver spoke exclusively with NBC 10 News but asked to remain anonymous.

He says he was one delivery away from heading home for the night when he was approached by three young men outside a house on Stone Street in Providence.

"They said, 'Don't look back and don't be funny or do anything stupid,'" the driver said. "Once I tried to look, they showed me the gun."

A police report of the incident says the three suspects circled the driver and his car as he was exiting the vehicle. Shortly after, one of the suspects took out a gun and pressed it into the driver's back, according to the report.

The suspects then took off with his car and everything inside it.

"They took my personal belongings, my wallet and my cellphone," he said. "I can't work at all right now and that's all I know how to do -- drive."

The driver described the suspects to police as young, Black males. He says they all looked no older than 20-years-old. One of them, he says, was wearing a Black puffy jacket.

"It's very sad, depressing and very frustrating," he said. "There's nothing I can do right now and I have a family to support."

The owner of Vasilios says this is the second driver robbed at gunpoint.

Wayne Lohmann has been delivering Vasilios for four years.

"They know we carry money and we're an easy rob because we're on the streets and we don't arm ourselves," said Lohmann. "Basically, we're a driving ATM."

Lohmann said drivers have to be cautious, especially at night.

"We have to have eyes behind our head and on the side because we always getting blindsided by something," said Lohmann.

A GoFundMe has been started for the driver's stolen car and cell phone.

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