2 arrested in Wyoming in Westside pizza deliveryman’s murder

Two men arrested in Wyoming are suspected of killing an Indianapolis pizza delivery driver Saturday night, Indianapolis police have confirmed.

Jeremiah Roberts, 26, and Derek Romano, 22, were arrested in Buffalo, Wyo., on Tuesday and were preliminarily charged with murder and robbery.

Just Pizza delivery driver John Sullivan, 49, was found dead Sunday morning in a Westside house being used as a dog rescue facility. His co-workers said he went out to deliver pizzas just before 8 p.m. Saturday.

IMPD spokesman Lt. Christopher Bailey said Roberts and Romano were picked up along an interstate highway after they abandoned Sullivan’s car.

Deputies ran the plates and determined the car was stolen, then spotted Roberts and Romano on the roadside.

Deputy Prosecutor Denise Robinson said a nationwide alert had been sent out for Sullivan’s car. She said authorities also tracked the suspects through cellphone records.

Sullivan’s co-workers at Just Pizza had said he vanished after delivering a pizza to an address in the 1800 block of Belmont Avenue.

Sullivan’s co-workers called police in the hours after Sullivan’s disappearance and searched for their missing colleague themselves.

Justin Anthony Knapp, a Just Pizza employee, said a group of employees searched the area around the dog rescue facility, which was on Sullivan’s pizza delivery route, on Saturday night but did not find anything. Knapp said they knew Sullivan had made his first delivery to a different address but disappeared after that.

Knapp said Sullivan’s gun, which he was carrying at the time, was also missing, but police have not said whether the gun was found.

Bailey said Marion County sheriff’s deputies would go to Wyoming to bring the suspects back to Indianapolis. A time has not been set.

Star reporter John Tuohy contributed to this story.

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