$42,000 raised for Sarnecki family fund

More than $42,000 has been raised in donations and pizza sales to benefit the family of murdered Pizza X delivery driver Adam Sarnecki.

100 percent of the $30,000 in sales made during Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week at the south side store where Sarnecki worked will be donated to the driver’s family, said Jeff Mease, CEO of Pizza X’s parent company One World Enterprises.

An additional $12,000 was donated by customers to the store, Mease said. Money raised at Bloomington’s other Pizza X locations will be counted next week.

The $42,000 raised so far will be donated to a fund created by the company in Sarnecki’s name.  

Sarnecki was shot last Friday after returning from a delivery to find a man attempting to break into another employee’s car. Police say that when Sarnecki confronted the man, he was shot.

He later died, leaving behind a fiancée and three children.

The man suspected in Sarnecki’s murder, James D. Finney, was arrested Monday and remains in Monroe County Jail without bond. He plead not guilty during his first court appearance Wednesday.

Mease said he worked at the south side store throughout the week and was happy to see so many people willing to donate money and buy pizza.

“We’re just really grateful for the support of the community,” Mease said, who worked at the south side store this week.

Mease said the store saw floods of students buy pizza to support Sarnecki’s family. He recalled one sorority member ordering a dozen pizzas for her house.

“It was something special,” Mease said.