Indianapolis, IN
Indianapolis father of 2 shot and killed while delivering a pizza during Papa Johns shift
INDIANAPOLIS — Steve Flynn was a father of two. Within the coming days, he was anticipating to be a grandfather.
“He all the time tried to make the world a greater place. I’m sorry that you just didn’t get to satisfy him,” Shannon Flynn, Steve’s spouse of virtually 30 years, mentioned.
She says her husband picked up a job delivering pizza for Papa Johns a couple of years in the past. He even met a couple of associates whereas on the clock.
“There’s a few folks on his route that will name each week to get pizza. It will be on trash day, so he would deliver them pizza and take out the trash,” Flynn mentioned.
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Final Thursday evening Steve was working his regular shift at Papa Johns. He was set to ship to a home close to 14th and Priscilla Ave.
Nonetheless, upon arrival, he was shot and killed.
“I’m making an attempt to wrap my head round the truth that my husband was killed over a field of pizza,” Flynn mentioned.
Flynn informed WRTV that the home Steve was purported to ship to was deserted.
“[The suspect] took the pizza and the automotive and dropped them three blocks away. There was a considerable amount of cash in my husband’s pockets, however the individual didn’t take it,” Flynn mentioned.
The automotive was dropped off close to 30th and Arlington Avenue. Flynn believes there was roughly $400 in her husband’s pockets.
Now Shannon and her household try to deal with the lack of a person that was an enormous a part of their lives.
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“These funeral plans are like my final reward to him and that’s very particular to me,” Flynn mentioned.
Anybody with details about this incident ought to name Detective Gregory Shue on the IMPD Murder Workplace at 317.327.3475 or e-mail the detective at Gregory.Shue@indy.gov