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 Close ||||| Four men planning to rip off a pizza delivery person of some cash instead found themselves face-to-face with a local state senator who formerly played linebacker for several National Football League teams. 
 
 Officials in Harvey worked with law enforcement officials in Fulton County, Ga., along with the FBI, in providing information related to the attack on state Sen. Napoleon Harris, D-Harvey, and that helped in the investigation of a missing man later found killed in Georgia. 
 
 Harris was once a prep football star at Thornton High School who later went on to play for the Oakland Raiders, Kansas City Chiefs and Minnesota Vikings. Aside from now serving in the Illinois Senate, Harris owns Beggars Pizza franchises in Orland Park and Harvey. 
 
 On Sept. 6, he was working at the restaurant at 369 E. 147th St. in Harvey when one last call came in for a pizza delivery. Because it was closing time, Harris decided to make the delivery himself. 
 
 When Harris, who declined comment Thursday about the incident, arrived at the house in the 15800 block of Paulina Avenue, he encountered a man sitting on the porch. 
 
 Suddenly, according to Harvey police spokesman Sean Howard, three other men came charging out of bushes and attacked Harris. Howard said Harris was struck by the men, who also tried putting him in a chokehold. 
 
 But Harris, who is 6-foot-3 and 250 pounds, was able to fight them off. Howard said the men did manage to get the money in Harris' wallet, along with the pizza, before they fled in a Chevrolet Tahoe. 
 
 Harris was shaken up by the attack, but Howard said the senator was able to regain his senses, get in his car and follow the Tahoe until its occupants abandoned the vehicle at a lumberyard in South Holland. 
 
 Harris had his cellphone with him and was able to call Harvey police to report the incident. Police wound up converging on the lumberyard, where they discovered blood in the vehicle, which turned out to be registered to Lester "Roy" Jones, a man who had been reported missing in Georgia. 
 
 Forensic tests done by the Illinois State Police revealed the blood was from Jones, who later turned up dead. 
 
 Howard said Harvey police provided their information to Georgia law enforcement officials, and also provided a tip that the suspects had gotten on a bus leaving Chicago for Atlanta. As a result, authorities said, Malik Mayer and a juvenile were taken into custody upon their arrival in Georgia. Mayer is now charged with murder, kidnapping, aggravated assault, theft and two counts of financial transaction card fraud, according to reports. 
 
 A third person, Lawrence Hines, was arrested Sept. 15 after he checked himself into a mental hospital in Atlanta. Officials there became suspicious of his conduct and notified police of his whereabouts. Murder charges were filed against him, although Fulton County sheriff's police said more charges could be sought. FBI officials in Atlanta also said Hines is wanted for a 2015 incident in Burlington, Iowa. 
 
 Charges are pending against a fourth suspect, officials said. Howard said the man is a Gary resident and Harvey authorities are working together with Indiana authorities to have him returned to Cook County. 
 
 "We haven't filed charges yet, but we're going to," he said. 
 
 Howard, who also serves as a spokesman for Harris, said the senator was pleased police in Harvey were able to provide worthwhile information to another law enforcement agency's investigation of a murder. 
 
 But Harris is also pleased his usual pizza delivery people didn't have to deal with such an attack. Harris, "feels he was better capable of handling this incident than they would have been," Howard said. "They were expecting a scrawny 5-foot-9 guy, and got Harris instead." 
 
 Gregory Tejeda is a freelance reporter for the Daily Southtown.
– It's just your ordinary tale of a pizza delivery guy who used to play in the NFL and is now a state lawmaker chasing after the men who robbed him and inadvertently helping crack a murder case. The bizarre tale centers around 37-year-old Napoleon Harris, who played linebacker for the Raiders and other teams years ago. Harris is not only an Illinois state senator now, he's also the owner of two Beggars Pizza franchises, and when an order came in before closing on Sept. 6, he opted to handle the delivery himself, reports the Daily Southtown. It turned out to be an ambush at a vacant house in Harvey, police say. When Harris showed up at the address, one man greeted him on the porch while three others jumped out and attacked him. At this point, it's relevant to point out that Harris is 6-foot-3 and 250 pounds. “They put a chokehold on the senator, but to no avail," says Sean Howard, who doubles as a spokesman for Harris and the Harvey police, per CBS 2. "They were really trying to choke him to death, and he was just too strong." They did manage to get his wallet, however, before fleeing in a vehicle. Harris followed them to a lumberyard and called police. The assailants escaped on foot but left behind the vehicle, which had blood in it that police traced to a man in Georgia who had been reported missing. His body would be found in Georgia a few days later, per the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Harris' descriptions helped police track down his assailants, and three of them are being in held in connection with the Georgia killing. Charges are pending against the fourth man.