DETROIT – Cirilo Amezquita has owned Chicago's Pizza in Southwest Detroit for the last two decades.
"The neighborhood is not so bad anymore, but it used to be bad about 15 years ago," Amezquita said.
But Wednesday night, a man walked into the pizzeria and ordered a cup of water. But when the clerk turned his back, surveillance video shows the man reaching into the donation jar and grabbing some cash.
"If you see in the video, one of my drivers went to the sink, and when he was walking back with the cup of water, he was leaving with the money," Amezquita said.
The money was in a donation jar meant to help pay funeral expenses for a man in the neighborhood who had been killed.
Amezquita said he'd seen the man in his restaurant before, and knew he was up to no good.
That's when he took matters into his own hands.
"I got tired of being robbed that way," Amezquita said. "No, like, (we) work hard for our money, and it getting taken away like that? No."
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