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Viral Story About Pizza Hut Break-In Leads To Discussion On Mental Health

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber

Published June 7, 2018 at 3:52 PM EDT

Alice York of Greensboro with her son, Richard Quintero. Photo courtesy of The High Point Enterprise.

Two months ago, the story of a low-level High Point break-in at a pizza restaurant went viral after the man who broke in called 911 claiming he was Jesus.

The seemingly comical incident spread quickly across the internet. That wasn't the end of the story though.

The High Point Enterprise recently ran an update, explaining that Richard Quintero's brief but infamous call was part of a much longer struggle with mental illness.

WFDD's Paul Garber spoke with reporter Jimmy Tomlin, who wrote the story.

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Paul Garber

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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Viral Story About Pizza Hut Break-In Leads To Discussion On Mental Health

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