Security guard killed during robbery at Chase bank in West Oak Cliff 11:02 AM CT
<h5 class="vitstorydate">12:14 PM CDT on Friday, September 18, 2009</h5>By AVI SELK and STEVE THOMPSON / The Dallas Morning News
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[email protected] A Brinks security guard
was shot and killed during an attempted robbery outside a bank near
Interstate 30 and Hampton Road this morning, police said. The suspected
shooter and his getaway driver are at-large.
At about 9:30 a.m., the guard was preparing to load cash into a
drive-through ATM outside a Chase bank in the 2500 block of Fort Worth
Avenue when witnesses saw a man grab him around the neck and shoot him
point blank, said Dallas police Senior Cpl. Janice Crowther.
"According to witnesses, the suspect just ran up to the Brinks
employee, grabbed him around the neck and then shot him at close
range," Crowther said.
The gunman fired about eight
rounds at the guard, according to a construction worker who witnessed
the incident from the second floor of a building next to the bank.
Police said either the Brinks guard or his driver may have returned
fire.
Less than a minute later, the shooter jumped into a
white Honda, driven by another man, and sped down Fort Worth Avenue,
the construction worker said. Crowther said other witnesses also saw a
small white Honda, although descriptions of its details have differed.
"These guys were so brazen," Crowther said. "They didn’t care who was here or who saw them."
One woman who was using a nearby ATM was not injured, police said. It
appeared no one else inside or outside the bank was hurt.
The guard died at the scene and his name was being withheld pending
notification of family, Crowther said. He was married with children. A
Brinks spokesperson also declined to provide additional details on the
guard.
The shooter appeared to get away with nothing,
leaving an orange bag of cash next to the body in front of the ATM.
The senselessness of the murder angered the construction worker.
"I find it hard to believe a guy would come up here and shoot off eight
rounds and walk off with nothing," he said.
Staff writers Kip Mooney and Chris Dell contributed to this report.