A Pizza Delivery in Hyde Park Turned Into a Gunpoint Robbery
Two teens robbed a Domino's delivery driver at gunpoint on a Hyde Park street in the early afternoon, taking the food bag, police said.
Scene imagery is illustrative — not the actual locationOn February 7, 2024, at about 1:42 in the afternoon, a Domino's delivery driver on Woodglen Road in Hyde Park was robbed at gunpoint, according to CBS Boston.
Police said two teenage suspects showed a handgun and took the driver's food bag before leaving the scene. The driver was not hurt.
Boston police released descriptions of the two suspects and asked anyone with information to contact detectives or the anonymous CrimeStoppers tip line. The robbery happened on a residential street in broad daylight — for a bag of food.
Seconds versus minutes.
Nobody moves toward danger faster than police. The clock is still the clock.
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Sources: NENA 911 call-processing standard (STA-020.1-2020) · FBI, Active Shooter Incidents 2000–2013 · City of Boston, Boston About Results — BPD Performance Report. Boston's figure is its last published Priority 1 median, call receipt to arrival. Incident timing is from the FBI's study of timed violent incidents. Respect for the officers who answer these calls, always — this is arithmetic, not blame.
This could have been any of us.
Thousands of people in Greater Boston earn a living walking up to strangers' doors — delivery drivers, contractors, home health aides, real estate agents. And every one of us stands on a doorstep with our hands full at some point. This driver was just doing his job at 1:42 on a Wednesday afternoon. There was no warning and nothing about the street that said danger.
The reality most of us never see coming.
Sources: Mass.gov / EOPSS crime data release · Mass.gov / EOPSS crime data release · FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, Crime in the U.S. 2019
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