Tennessee Man Arrested After Threatening Little Caesars Employees With AK-47 Over Late Pizza

Charles Doty, a Tennessee man, has pleaded guilty to pointing an AK-47 rifle at two pizza shop employees because his pepperoni pizza was “taking too long to cook.” 

According to reports, Doty, 64, became agitated after being told that his pizza would take ten minutes. He then demanded an order of free “Crazy Bread” before exiting the restaurant.

Doty later returned to the Little Caesars restaurant with an AK-47 and pointed it at the female worker, demanding his order. To get him out of the store, a female customer who had just gotten her pepperoni pie gave it to Doty, which resulted in him leaving the restaurant.

The Knoxville Police Department later arrested Doty.

Little Caesars employees Kimerleigh Burrell and Noah Beeler were working when the incident took place. It was their first day on the job.

“I never expected somebody to come in over a $6 pizza that you paid for. With a gun. I was the only one up front, taking orders, running up front. He orders a pepperoni pizza. I’m like, ‘I’m sorry. There’s going to be a ten-minute wait.’ He gets mad, frustrated and is like, ‘Give me breadsticks,’” Murrell told Knoxville’s WATE TV.

Murrell said that after Doty pulled out the gun, she rushed to the back of the store while her boyfriend Beeler went up front.

Beeler believed that if the customer had waited a little longer, he would’ve had his pizza and not been arrested.

“It wasn’t even a ten-minute wait when he came in with the gun. If he would have not come in with the gun and waited another two, maybe three minutes, it would have already been boxed and in his hands,” Beeler said.

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Doty has pleaded guilty to four counts of aggravated assault, including aggravated kidnapping and aggravated assault. He will be sentenced on September 29.