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Pizza Hut delivery driver murderer sentenced to life in prison

April 25, 2004

MARIETTA, Ga.—Cortez Lornell Carter was found guilty on April 23 of three counts of murder and two counts of robbery in the Oct. 26, 2002, death of Paul Kevin Wojcik, a 45-year-old Pizza Hut delivery driver. (See Pizza Hut worker killed for $15.)

According to the Marietta Daily Journal, Carter, who was 22 at the time of the murder, was sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years. The robbery netted him $15.

On the night Wojcik was murdered, his body was found in a vacant apartment where he had been sent on a delivery. He was severely beaten before being strangled, authorities said.

Wojcik had taken the job at Pizza Hut to bring in extra income to support his wife and three children.