Antoine Gee Jr.Photo:GoFundMe

Antoine Gee Jr.

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Three Wisconsin teenagers are in custody and facing murder charges after allegedly killing a Domino’s driver delivering a pizza that the suspects were trying to steal, authorities claim.

Antoine Gee Jr., 33, was fatally shot while making a pizza delivery on Jan. 10 in Milwaukee, Wisc., when authorities claim the teenagers attacked him and tried to steal the pizza,WISN,CBS 58andThe News & Observerreported.

The Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office charged Armier E. McArthur, Keyshaun T.L. McNealy and Damain N. Patrick, all 17, last Friday in connection with the alleged killing, the Milwaukee Police Department said in astatementlater that day.

Keyshaun McNealy, Damain N. Patrick, Armier McArthur.Milwaukee Police Department

Keyshaun McNealy, Damain N. Patrick, Armier McArthur

Milwaukee Police Department

In aGoFundMefundraiser set up for Gee Jr., his family paid tribute to him.

“To the media he’s just a pizza delivery man, but to his family he was the backbone,” wrote Patrice Toliver, who identified herself as the victim’s mother. “He was a truck driver, a landlord, a brother, a nephew, an investor.”

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She said Gee Jr. was her eldest child and her only son.

“I don’t think I’ll ever heal this wound,” Asia Ferguson, Gee’s friend, toFOX 6 Now. “It will never heal. My heart is broken.”

Court records show all three defendants have the same attorney; PEOPLE wasn’t immediately able to reach him.

source: people.com