Police: Woman placed phony pizza order, luring delivery driver into a trap

A woman arrested Tuesday is accused of calling in a phony order to Papa John’s Pizza in an effort to lure a delivery driver to the Bloomfield neighborhood and rob her.

Brooklyn Rouse, 21, was filling in for a co-worker when she went to the deliver the pizzas and was shot in the head and neck Monday night.

Alisha Genva Wilson, 26, is charged with aiding and abetting in armed robbery and attempted murder and possessing a gun, according to arrest warrants from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office. She remained in jail without bond Thursday.

Investigators are still looking for 19-year-old Jacob Elijah Miller, who is accused of shooting Rouse as she stood outside 2443 Vivian Drive with two pizzas for delivery.

Rouse’s family lives a mere three miles from where she was shot. Rouse remains in serious condition at a Macon hospital.

Her aunt, Latavia Coleman, set up an online fund to help pay for medical expenses. The account exceeded its original $5,000 goal within hours. On Thursday, the account balance had reached more than $10,300.

Coleman, girls basketball head coach for Howard High School, said her niece was the team manager while in school there. Rouse graduated in 2013 and was as studying at Georgia Southern University.

“She’d come home for the holidays, figured she needed a little extra money, and this just happened,” Coleman said.

The day before Rouse was shot, her family gathered together for Christmas. Coleman said she heard her sister and Rouse talking about the delivery job, and “the dangerousness of it.”

“They had just talked about it the night before,” Coleman said. “She told me that someone had been shot about a week ago, which I had no clue about.”

Five days before Rouse was shot, her co-worker, Duncan Siror, was shot in the shoulder while delivering a pizza in the same neighborhood.

“I don’t think she was as worried as everyone else was,” Coleman said of her niece. “She said she was going to get some mace and carry that, but she was a brave young lady. I think we were more scared for her than she was.”

Rouse was in extremely critical condition and had surgery about midnight after the shooting. Her aunt said she is improving, though.

“She opened her eyes Tuesday evening and looked over at me... and she reached out and grabbed me,” Coleman said. “That’s something (doctors) didn’t want her to do right now, because they want her to rest and don’t want her stimulated. But that one thing made me feel so good, like, ‘OK. She realizes this is me.’ ”

Coleman said she’d never heard of Wilson or Miller.

“I don’t hate these kids,” she said. “I teach, and so I’m around young kids all the time. They just need guidance ... It’s not always the kids fault that they were never taught right from wrong. But I do want justice for my niece. I want the young man to turn himself in.”

This story was originally published December 29, 2016 at 2:02 PM with the headline "Police: Woman placed phony pizza order, luring delivery driver into a trap."