( CNN ) -- A late-night robbery at a Wilmington , North Carolina , Pizza Hut ended with two suspects dead and one hospitalized , police said . Three men forced a restaurant employee who was outside back inside at gunpoint and robbed those inside , police said . Police were waiting for the suspects as they exited the Pizza Hut . The suspects ignored commands from the officers , police say , and a shootout broke out . All three suspects were injured ; two died later at a hospital . Their names were not immediately released . No officers were injured . Police were already monitoring area restaurants because of a recent spate of armed robberies . Police did not immediately say whether the three suspects were linked to other robberies .
Police say the men robbed a Pizza Express in Wilmington , North Carolina . There was a shootout between the suspects and police . Two suspects died and a third is missing .