BEFORE, a bad night for Allen Townsend was a shift with no tips.
His perspective changed Jan. 19 when he almost lost his life whiledelivering a pizza.
Four men called in an order they were supposed to pick up outsidethe Martin Luther King Center: Two pizzas with pepperoni, sausage,mushrooms and extra cheese, along with 20 chicken wings.
Townsend, a 40-year-old evening delivery driver earning $5.15 anhour, went out to meet them.
He said he still was seated in the car when they crept up frombehind, demanded money, punched him in the face, shot out the rearwindow and then got nervous and shot him in the back.
"I knew I was shot," he said. "My …

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