--- description: Employees are prohibited from using guns at work title: Papa John's Will Not Fire Pizza Delivery Woman Who Shot Robbery Suspect image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Papa John's Will Not Fire Delivery Woman Who Shot Robbery Suspect by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 16, 2015 4:35 PM CUT by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 16, 2015 4:35 PM CUT A Papa John’s employee will not lose her job after shooting an armed robbery suspect while making deliveries, [the company said](http://www.ajc.com/news/news/papa-johns-driver-who-shot-robbery-suspect-will-ke/njpkq/ "undefined") Thursday.. The woman, whose name has not been disclosed, was ordered to the ground by a man with a gun on Sunday night in DeKalb County, Ga. She was armed with her own weapon and used it to shoot the man in the face, the Atlanta _Journal-Constitution_ reports. The man, Donquaz Devon Stevenson, was found nearby and arrested and charged with armed robbery. A second suspect got away in the delivery woman’s Honda Accord. Although it is against company policy for employees to use guns on the job, Papa John’s has announced the woman can keep her job and will be reassigned to an in-store position. A company spokesperson also said they are “offering her counseling to help her recuperate from the incident.” \[[_Atlanta Journal-Constitution_](http://www.ajc.com/news/news/papa-johns-driver-who-shot-robbery-suspect-will-ke/njpkq/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3671696/papa-johns-shooting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3671696/papa-johns-shooting/"},"headline":"Papa John's Will Not Fire Delivery Woman Who Shot Robbery Suspect","datePublished":"2015-01-16T16:35:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:39:03.280Z","description":"Employees are prohibited from using guns at work","url":"https://time.com/3671696/papa-johns-shooting/","keywords":["Crime","Pizza"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3671696/papa-johns-shooting/","name":"Papa John's Will Not Fire Delivery Woman Who Shot Robbery Suspect"}}]}] ```