Teen Faces Murder Charge in Dellwood Pizza Delivery Shooting

A 17-year-old man has been accused of shooting and killing an Imo’s Pizza delivery driver Monday in Dellwood.

Earon A. Rivers, 17, of the 10000 block of Bon Oak Drive in North County just east of Dellwood, was charged Tuesday morning with second-degree murder, first-degree robbery and two counts of armed criminal action.

On Monday night, St. Louis County Police officers found a driver dead and slumped over at his wheel in the 1600 block of Mowbry Lane. The driver was shot once underneath his left arm, St. Louis County Police said.

The victim, Brian Johnson, 39, of the 12800 block of Meadowdale in Spanish  Lake, was a delivery driver for Imo’s Pizza at 2162 Chambers Road in North County.

Police said three pizzas and a cell phone were stolen in the robbery. Johnson was delivering pizza to a home in the 1600 block of Mowbry Lane.

Rivers is being held without bond in St. Louis County jail.

For more crime information on Florissant Patch, see the following articles:

• Florissant Pizza Delivery Man Robbed at Gunpoint
• Update: Man Charged with Pizza Delivery Robbery