Police Seeking 2 in Pizza Store Robberies

Police are searching for a gunman and an accomplice believed responsible for holding up at least four Domino’s Pizza establishments and a deliveryman in the San Fernando Valley over the past two weeks, Los Angeles police said Thursday.

The most recent robbery occurred Tuesday in the 22000 block of Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills.

“The person came in with a shotgun. The cashier ducked and the gunman fled with the shotgun and no money,” Detective Dan Reihl said.

The suspect was described as a black man between 18 and 25 years old, about 6 feet tall and weighing 170 pounds. The gunman escaped in a gray compact car, possibly a Nissan, a Toyota or a Dodge Colt, driven by a second person, Reihl said. Police have no description of the driver.

In the first robbery, which occurred Oct. 2, a gunman matching the same description held up a Domino’s store manager at an automated teller machine at Roscoe and Van Nuys boulevards in Sepulveda.

Other robberies occurred Oct. 5 and 7.

On Oct. 9, a man delivering pizza in Van Nuys was robbed of a small amount of money. The gunman hit the deliveryman with his shotgun, but the victim was not seriously injured.

That same day, a gunman robbed a Domino’s Pizza business in the 13000 block of Glenoaks Boulevard in Sylmar and escaped with a “substantial amount of money,” Reihl said.