Dayton cops shoot pizza robbery suspect

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Police here trying to stop pizza delivery robberies have shot and seriously wounded a 17-year-old suspect.

Dayton police say no officers were hit in a Wednesday evening shootout and say the suspect fired a handgun. The Dayton Daily News reports he has been hospitalized in serious but stable condition. His name wasn’t released immediately.

Police have working with local pizza businesses to halt robberies of delivery people. They had been notified Wednesday after a business received a delivery request from a phone number associated with an earlier robbery.

It’s the second wounding of a suspect by Dayton police this year. An 18-year-old car theft suspect survived multiple wounds in June after allegedly backing the car into an officer.