A pizza deliveryman robbed at gunpoint Saturday night at a Howard County apartment building was shaken but back on the job Sunday.
Saeed Ahmed, 42, was delivering a pizza to an apartment in the 7100 block of Duckett?s Lane in Elkridge at about 10:40 p.m. Saturday when three men dressed in black and wearing ski masks cornered him in the building?s vestibule, Howard County police reported.
“I am grateful to God for my life,” Ahmed, who has been delivering for Pizza Boli?s in Arbutus for less than a year, said Sunday.
“As soon as I entered, I saw one guy come in from the back door and he was standing there, pointing a pistol at my chest.”
The suspects fled on foot out of the apartment?s rear door with $378, he said.
Howard County police officers, a K-9 unit and a helicopter searched the area for the suspects but arrested no one, police said.
Khalil Dad, another Boli?s employee, said this is only the second time a pizza deliverer from that establishment has been robbed since Dad started there three years ago.
The first time, he said, was two years ago when someone stole food from a pizza deliverer in
Baltimore City.
Both Dad and Ahmed said they were surprised about where the robbery took place.
“I didn?t expect anything there because it?s normally good people,” Ahmed said.
“I was nervous. At any moment, they could have done anything.”
Police said the armed suspect wielded a black semiautomatic pistol.
Ahmed said he was startled but uninjured following the stick-up and returned to work Sunday afternoon. “It had an effect on me, but I will take more precautions.”
