Thursday, January 5, 2017

Charlotte Observer - Macon, Georgia: She Agreed to Work When Other Pizza Deliverers Quit After Shooting. She Got Shot - "All we carry is $20. That’s it.” - Reminds me of Black complaints of 'food deserts'--Would you build a supermarket in a war zone? --tma



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MACON, GA. 
Brooklyn Rouse had been delivering pizzas for Papa John’s for exactly two weeks when she was shot in the head on the day after Christmas.
Monday evening, 21-year-old Rouse was on her way to Macon’s Bloomfield neighborhood with two pizzas. Just five days before, her 23-year-old co-worker, Duncan Siror, had been shot in the shoulder while delivering a pizza to an address just a mile and a half north of where she was headed.
Even so, Rouse was undeterred.
“I could call her in any time and she’ll be here like that,” said Frank Hurley, general manager of Papa John’s Pizza  ...

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article123185689.html#storylink=cpy

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