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Red Robin worker’s body found in restaurant as Arizona police investigate broken door

A Red Robin worker was found dead inside the restaurant on June 12, 2022, in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in Arizona, police said.
A Red Robin worker was found dead inside the restaurant on June 12, 2022, in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in Arizona, police said. Getty Images/iStockphoto

An employee was found dead inside an Arizona Red Robin restaurant after a report of a broken door, police told multiple news outlets.

Salt River police investigated the broken door around 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 12, at a Red Robin in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community near Scottsdale, KNXV-TV reported.

No one answered when police called out before entering the restaurant, the news outlet reported.

Then they found a body inside, police told KTVK/KPHO.

Police suspect the worker was killed during a robbery, KPNZ reported. The worker’s name has not been released.

The restaurant at The Pavilions in the Talking Stick Shopping Center has been marked “temporarily closed” on Google.

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Helena Wegner
McClatchy DC
Helena Wegner is a McClatchy National Real-Time Reporter covering the state of Washington and the western region. She’s a journalism graduate from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She’s based in Phoenix.
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