More details: http://wncn.com/2016/11/03/parents-of-pizza-hut-robbery-suspect-question-why-employee-fatally-shot-their-son-in-the-head/

They said Grace Jr. had fallen on hard times and resorted to crime to provide for his own child. They also said their son used to work at the same Pizza Hut restaurant where the robbery happened. They maintain he never would have physically hurt anyone during the robbery.

WBTV contacted the local restaurant and the Pizza Hut corporation public relations line. Neither have confirmed that Grace Jr. worked as an employee at the Freedom Drive Pizza Hut. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officials have not confirmed the information either.

The parents are angry that their son was shot and killed by an employee. They don’t believe the full story has been released to the public.

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“Why in the hell did this guy have a gun?” questioned Hairston about the employee who shot her son.

She said her son was shot in the head, and she thinks the shooting may have even been personal, citing past conflicts Grace Jr. had had with other employees at the restaurant.

“This wasn’t a body shot. This was a head shot. My son was shot in the left side of his head just behind his ear. A head shot is personal,” said Hairston.

With the understanding that initial reports are almost always garbled, it does sound like there might have been more going on here than just a robbery.

Cheers,
Scott.

To elaborate...

I worked as a temp for a company that owned about 20 Dominoes franchises in OH and IN. Dominoes had a requirement (in the early '80s) that each store had to have a safe and the store had to have an official policy about when to put money in the safe, how to log it, etc. The franchises could be yanked if that wasn't done to Dominoes' satisfaction.

Yeah, the guy supposedly worked there and would know the policies. Yeah, the store was closed at the time, so maybe he thought that's when the money would be transferred.

But Joe Robber off the street wouldn't know the store policy about money transfers.

So either the store guy was worried about being robbed by employees or former employees, or he was a gun fondler, or who knows what.

AFAIK, most franchise operations have policies not to permit guns because of the liability and employee safety concerns. If the place is that dangerous, then they wouldn't put a store there to begin with (the place I worked wouldn't deliver to some areas because they said it was too dangerous).

It's not at all obvious that he had a gun to protect the store. Not at all. That's your assumption.

Cheers,
Scott.