{"id":9751,"date":"2021-08-09T17:19:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci028a40dfa0012560"},"modified":"2021-08-09T17:19:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:19:26","slug":"man-robs-pizza-restaurant-with-shotgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2021\/08\/09\/man-robs-pizza-restaurant-with-shotgun\/","title":{"rendered":"MAN ROBS PIZZA RESTAURANT WITH SHOTGUN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sherwood Alex, 41, was convicted by a jury on August 5, 2021 for his involvement in a brutal armed robbery at a pizza restaurant in Charlotte, NC.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0mail-7.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Alex is a habitual felon and was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison. Alex pointed a shotgun at the heads of three brothers while they worked at a Charlotte pizza restaurant.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In February 2020, three brothers working at a pizza restaurant on Beatties Ford Road were closing when they heard a ring at the restaurant\u2019s entrance. Alex, armed with a pump action shotgun, entered the restaurant and went to the back, ordering all three victims to the ground.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alex pointed and pressed the shotgun to the victims\u2019 heads. Alex forced one of the brothers to open the restaurant\u2019s safe, where they found $700. Threatening to shoot the victims, Alex also took the victims\u2019 cellphones and a wallet before fleeing out of the back of the store.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alex was driving a vehicle to get away, but it became inoperable, and he quickly abandoned the car. Investigating police found items of clothing worn during the robbery that were thrown along the suspect&#8217;s flight path, including clothing that contained Alex\u2019s DNA.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alex was found guilty of robbery with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He pointed the gun at employees&#8217; heads during a late night robbery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[626,355,359,29],"class_list":["post-9751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-robbery","tag-pizza","tag-restaurant-news","tag-restaurants","tag-robbery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}