Philly pizza deliveryman wounded in shootout

A 36-year-old pizza deliveryman was wounded in a shootout that came after he was ambushed at an abandoned house Monday night in the Kingsessing section of Southwest Philadelphia.

The victim was trying to deliver pizza at an address in the 5300 block of Yocum Street shortly after 7 p.m. when several males ran out and one put a gun to his head and announced a robbery, said Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives. The deliveryman, who works for Chester Family Pizza in Kingsessing, attempted to run away and was shot in the left side and left arm, Walker said.

He dropped the pizzas and pulled out a 9mm semiautomatic handgun, which he is licensed to carry and fired shots at his assailants, Walker said. It was not known whether any of them were hit. The deliveryman then drove himself to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was listed in stable condition and transferred to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.