I know that even I myself have been guilty of giving security guards hell and calling them wanna-be cops, but this was a good guy who gave everything he had in the line of duty and I'm posting this in the LEO forum instead of GD:
Guard slain in robbery attempt
By MATT ELLIOTT World Staff Writer
5/25/2004
A hail of gunfire during a botched bank robbery killed a bank security guard Monday and wounded the two alleged robbers.
The two men fled, but two suspects were later arrested.
Police allege that Wade Lay walked into the MidFirst Bank at 7050 S. Yale Ave., Suite 100, around 3:45 p.m. and pointed a gun at a clerk.
The guard drew his weapon and opened fire, wounding Lay and his 19-year-old son, Christopher Lay, Cpl. Gene Watkins said. The guard was killed in the exchange of gunfire.
It was not immediately clear what role Christopher Lay might have played in the robbery.
Officer Scott Walton identified the security guard, who was pronounced dead at the scene, as 36-year-old Bixby resident Kenneth Anderson.
Anderson died from numerous gunshot wounds while protecting the bank's employees, Watkins said.
"It's a shame," Watkins said. "He was in a fight
for his life in here, and he actually saved people's lives, because no one else's lives were lost."
The robbers, who Walton said got away with no money, fled north from the bank. A trail of blood was spattered on the pavement leading into a wooded area north of the parking lot, and a black ski mask was dropped on a sidewalk.
A police helicopter, numerous of ficers on foot and two K-9 officers set up a perimeter around the wooded area, but the two could not be found.
While officers were working the scene, police dispatchers received a call that a man with gunshot wounds was at The Vintage on Yale apartments, about a mile south at 5202 E. 81st St., Watkins said.
Police found a trail of blood leading to an apartment door and found Wade Lay inside on the couch, said Walton. He said a relative of Wade Lay's contacted police after he called her saying that he had been shot.
Watkins said the elder Lay had been shot multiple times. An ambulance took him in serious condition to St. Francis Hospital, said EMSA spokeswoman Tina Wells. He later underwent surgery.
Meanwhile, Sapulpa police and Creek County sheriff's deputies arrested Christopher Lay when they stopped his vehicle in the Sapulpa area, police said.
Walton said Christopher Lay was taken to a Sapulpa hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound to the buttocks.
"It is assumed that he will be released and transported back to Tulsa," Walton said.
Records show that an eviction notice from The Vintage on Yale Apartments was filed against Christopher Lay on May 12.
The building where the bank branch is located also houses other businesses, whose employees hunkered down and locked their doors during the robbery.
Watkins said many officers will be working the crime scene nonstop until Tuesday morning.
"It's a mess in here," he said.
"It's a miracle that only the bad guys and the security guard were hit."
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