Atlanta, Georgia

From Atlanta’s WSBtv.com of November 27, 2006

Police: Pizza Deliveryman Shoots, Kills Robber

Police are investigating a shooting in southwest Atlanta that left a 14-year old dead.

A pizza deliveryman shot and killed the teen Sunday night during an attempted robbery, according to investigators.

The deliveryman told officers a group of teens confronted him at the Huntington Pointe apartments at 2909 Campbellton Road.

He claims he gave up his cash to the robbers, but pulled a gun and opened fire when one of the teens made a threatening motion.

The teen died at the scene.

Police are searching for the other teens who tried to hold up the delivery driver.

There's no word yet on whether the deliveryman will be charged.

From the Atlanta Journal Constitution of November 27, 2006

Pizza deliverer, friends of teen suspect try to cope with killing

Around noon Monday, about 15 teenagers, calling themselves the Young Paper Chasers, stood beneath a tree and tried to wash away what was left of their friend Kenyatta Calhoun.

About two miles away at Super Crown Pizza on DeLowe Drive in southwest Atlanta, Zihaid Mahmood did not come to work. Mahmood, a pizza delivery driver, shot Kenyatta to death during an alleged robbery Sunday night, police say.

"I am not going to work today," Mahmood said in a telephone interview. "I am so sorry about what happened. But I was protecting myself."

On the spot where the 14-year-old died, the Young Paper Chasers poured liquor and soda on the ground to flush away the red stains.

"We couldn't look at the blood anymore," 17-year-old Bay Bay Green said. "Today, we are just sitting around, drinking. Thinking about Big Boi."

The remainder of the article appears here, and it attempts to turn felons into “victims”. Clayton reproduces much of the article here, and comments about the article and the incident.