PIZZA DELIVERY MAN FOLLOWS ILLINOIS GUN LAW. NOW HE'S DEADER THAN AN ANCHOVE.
Pizza deliverer slain in Markham
By Tonya Maxwell, Tribune staff reporter. Freelance reporter Carmen Greco Jr. contributed to this report
Published October 12, 2005
An Oak Lawn man who delivered pizzas so he could be near his sons who also worked for the pizzeria died early Tuesday after he was beaten at a vacant house in Markham where he had taken food, officials and residents said.
Frank Sedevic, 60, died in the emergency room of St. James Hospital and Health Centers in Olympia Fields at 12:43 a.m., the Cook County medical examiner's office said. The death was ruled a homicide by blunt head trauma.
Sedevic was delivering for Beggars Pizza in Oak Forest, according to the medical examiner's office spokesman. He was found at 8:21 p.m. Monday in the 16500 block of Sawyer Avenue.
Markham police did not return calls for comment on the slaying.
Felicia Farr of Markham said Sedevic was delivering pizzas to a vacant house next to her's. After he was beaten, she said, he stumbled across the street and fell in the yard of a woman who called police.
"I've been living here three years and ever since I've been here there's been a mess," she said of crime in the area. "Since this happened today, I've called the Realtor. I'm going to sell my house."
Sedevic had delivered for Beggars Pizza since 1999, said Lynn Gutierrez, a manager at the restaurant. He worked five or six days a week, and his two sons also worked at Beggars as delivery men, she said.
"He was a nice, quiet man, a good guy," Gutierrez said. "It's pretty much like that [a family atmosphere] around here."
Employees learned of the attack shortly after it occurred, she said, but declined to say how or to comment on other aspects of what happened, citing the pending investigation.
Sedevic had retired from a business he started, delivering poultry to area restaurants, said Lyn Halbert, who is engaged to his son Joe. The elder Sedevic liked working for Beggars Pizza even though he didn't need the job, she said, because it ensured he would see both of his kids weekly.
"He was always guaranteed that at least one night a week, they would always see each other," Halbert said. "They all worked Wednesday. He was a real family man."
Sedevic rooted for the White Sox but took the family to Milwaukee each year for a Brewers game. He liked celebrating anniversaries at buffet restaurants and had been married to Barbara Sedevic for 37 years.
"They got married just after Barb turned 18," Halbert said quietly.
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tmaxwell@tribune.com
Chicago Tribune | Pizza deliverer slain in Markham
4 Comments:
Mayor Daley, Blago and all the IL Gun Control minions ought to be proud! Your political power combined with your controlled news media has so far enabled you to keep IL's law-abiding citizens disarmed and totally victimised!
Seig Heil to Dick Daley!
This mans blood is on the hands of all of the socialists who would deny us our civil rights. A good chance that concealed carry could have prevented this tragedy.
I ran across this story while looking for a Beggars Pizza Web-Site, but now feel compeled to comment.
First, I am not opposed to a right to carry concealed weapons.
Second, the reference to this gentleman being as dead as a anchove is extremely insensitive to this man and his family. I think it is a great idea to keep guns out of the hands of apathetic people.
Third, in response to the comment above this one: I don't understand how his blood is on anybody's hands-outside of the people who beat him to death. If there were to be a law allowing individuals to carry concealed weapons, would this individual have carried one? Does it state anywhere that this gentleman would have carried a gun if only the laws would've allowed it? Your comment is a pretty large leap of logic.
Fourth, to the comment above again, you say "A good chance that concealed carry could have prevented this tragedy". Well of course it would be a good chance, we can get into many hypotheticals about "good chances" if you would like but we would probably be here for a really, really long time. There are many things that could have prevented this tragedy, but I think it is short sighted and logically incorrect to assume that what happened in this situation, which this article only briefly describes, supports the arguement for concealed carry.
While I don't oppose concealed carry, I may rethink my position after seeing how people who support this proposition rationalize. The last thing I would want in this world is for apathetic, intellectually lazy individuals carry weapons.
your comment on the top of the page is crap...frank sedevic's son
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