After a hectic night delivering pizza, the last thing Amber Beraun wanted to deal with was an armed robber pointing a gun at her chest. He ended up with all her tip money. At least he was enough of a gentleman let her keep the pie she brought home for herself. He was also nice enough not to shoot her. What’s unfortunately become a routine occurrence in Indianapolis, Indiana, took a bizarre and amusing twist with what happened next. It’s easy to see why violent crime is so out of control there. It took police a full month and a half to track down the suspect, who would have been more than happy to meet them if they dangled just a little bit of Facebook bait. He practically gave them his phone number.
Pizza girl too pretty to rob
The pizza girl was “too pretty to rob” but 31-year-old Damien Boyce robbed her anyway. He felt bad about it afterwards.
When Amber Beraun finally made it home from work around 4 a.m. on May 8, the first thing she did was duck “into her house to feed her pets before popping back outside to check the mailbox.” That’s when she met Boyce.
“As she re-emerged, a stranger approached, prompting her to ask if she could help him.” Boyce “asked if she lived there.” She admitted she did but added “with her boyfriend, who was home.” That’s when he produced a gun from the pocket of his hoodie, pointed it square at her chest and basically said “I’ll be your robber this morning.”
While being robbed, Amber Beraun marched to her car to fetch the roughly $100 in tips she had made earlier delivering pizzas around Indianapolis. After she handed over the money, the stranger robbing her made an additional demand: add him on Facebook. https://t.co/lvLXWHSqCS
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 28, 2023
Police note the armed gunman “told Beraun that he had planned to break into her house, but because she had unexpectedly shown up, he demanded she fork over her keys.” Thinking fast, she offered him her pizza.
Beraun told him “she didn’t have anything of value in her home but could give him the $100 in tips she had made that night.” As the detective swore in his affidavit, “the man agreed, ordering Beraun to her 2006 Chevy Impala to fetch the money.” He continued to hold her at gunpoint.
“Beraun did as she was told, opening the driver’s side door and grabbing the cash from her purse,” she told police. “While doing so, she offered the man a pizza she had taken home from her job.” She hoped to diffuse some of the danger by soothing him with “something along the lines of I know it’s hard when you’re struggling.”
Do you really have a boyfriend?
Boyce declined her offer of the pizza but took the cash. “I give him the $100 thinking that’s enough to sate him, and he will hopefully leave me alone.” That’s when he started mumbling at her. He was in charge while in thug mode then suddenly got shy.
After muttering “something about his family,” he surprised Ms. Beraun by asking “do you really have a boyfriend?” She did and said so. “Does he treat you right?” She was stunned. He’s standing there with a gun pointed at her asking her that. She replied in the affirmative.
Still pointing his weapon at her, Boyce “asked whether they could be Facebook friends.” Under the circumstances she quickly agreed.
Man Robs Woman At Gunpoint Then Makes Her Add Him On Facebook And Asks Her Out: Amber Beraun was checking the mailbox outside her house in Indianapolis, Indiana on May 8 when she says she was approached by a man, later identified as Damien Boyce, and… https://t.co/5VRqQi4iy1 pic.twitter.com/gxXMrrh39v
— Dr John Wayne Wilson (@johnwayne1) June 27, 2023
He introduced himself and watched as she put his name in the platform’s search bar, then “pointed out his profile before hopping on his bike and taking off.” It took police six whole weeks to find him. They could have had the pizza driver send him a message.
Boyce quickly accepted the friend request and sent back a message less than three hours later. “Look just know imma pay you back,” he allegedly wrote. Washinton Post adds that he acknowledged “that robbing her was a bad way to meet and that she was too pretty to rob.” He also invited, “come chill with me.”
Ms. Beraun continued to insist, “I do have a man. You know I can’t do that lol. I wish you the best tho.” She was afraid to call the cops at first, fearing retaliation, so went to stay with her actual boyfriend at his place. She’ll never feel safe delivering pizza again. “He also took my sense of safety,” she laments. “Ultimately, I no longer feel safe on my own.“
