GUNMAN TERRORIZES DETROIT BANK; 4 DEAD.Byline: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Less than a fortnight after two bandits in black body armor Noun 1. body armor - armor that protects the wearer's whole body body armour, cataphract, coat of mail, suit of armor, suit of armour armet - a medieval helmet with a visor and a neck guard used automatic weapons to shoot up a North Hollywood bank, a lone gunman wearing no armor and carrying only a shotgun left a bloodier trail at a bank here Tuesday morning: four dead, including the gunman, and two people were hospitalized. Police and witnesses described a particularly heartless heart·less adj. 1. Devoid of compassion or feeling; pitiless. 2. Archaic Devoid of courage or enthusiasm; spiritless. heart man, who forced victims to recite the Lord's Prayer with him as he shot them one by one inside the Comerica bank. Police identified the gunman Tuesday evening as Allen Griffin, 21. When the police confronted him outside, Griffin shot and killed his hostage. Then the gunman, wearing gray-and-white camouflage, ``started running away and the cops blew him away,'' said a 32-year-old resident who said he saw the incident. Isaiah McKinnon, Detroit's chief of police, told reporters at the bank branch early Tuesday afternoon that Griffin had mentioned money to the bank staff but had not made any clear demands. William Ratliff, a Detroit police officer, said Griffin was a resident of Ferndale, Mich., a suburb adjacent to Detroit. While Griffin's motives were unclear, ``he may have been depressed,'' Ratliff said. McKinnon said that on Monday night he had been discussing the North Hollywood shootout The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily-armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips, Jr. and Emil Matasareanu, and patrol and SWAT officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, California on February 28, 1997. with one of his top deputies. The two gunmen at the Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. were killed, and 11 police officers and six bystanders were injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. in the gunbattle. The shooting here, which was shown on national television, is a setback for Detroit, which has been trying to shake its image as a city of mayhem. The violent crime rate, although still high, has been falling for the last three years, McKinnon said. |
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