Police: Pizza Customer Answers Door in Boxers, Carrying Rifle

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A Linthicum Heights man -- who reportedly wore only boxer shorts and carried a rifle when he answered the door to a pizza delivery driver -- has been charged with assault.

Anne Arundel County Police were called to the 400 block of Laura Avenue in Linthicum Heights Saturday night for a report of an armed suspect. A Domino’s Pizza delivery driver reported he went to 404 Laura Ave. to deliver an online order, and was met by the suspect, who was in his underwear and holding a rifle.

Police say the suspect, Alexander Lyle Gray, 24, of 404 Laura Ave. in Linthicum Heights, pointed the rifle at the driver and asked who he was. The driver said he was delivering a pizza and Gray denied ordering a pizza. The victim immediately left the area.

Officers who went to Gray’s home say he approached the door dressed only in boxer shorts and carrying the rifle. He dropped the weapon when ordered to do so and was taken into custody. Officers confirmed Gray had placed an online order for a pizza.

Gray is charged with first- and second-degree assault and use of a firearm in a crime of violence.

»Suspect Alexander Gray, courtesy of Anne Arundel County Police

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