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Gun Salute at Vet's Funeral Rattles Police
Josey1
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Wednesday, June 5, 2002
Gun Salute at Vet's Funeral Rattles Police Chasing Bank Robber
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE -- Police thought they were about to catch a bank robber at a fast-food outlet when shots rang out.
Dozens of officers raced to the scene, only to find some abandoned clothing -- and to learn that the gunfire came from a military honor guard shooting blanks in a salute at a veteran's funeral nearby.
The episode began Tuesday afternoon when a man passed a note demanding money to a teller at a Wells Fargo Bank branch at a Safeway store on Capitol Hill, police officer Deanna Nollette said.
He did not show a weapon but took an undisclosed amount of the money, flagged down a taxicab and fled, Nollette said.
As officers were being told the robber might have gotten out of the cab and entered a Jack In The Box outlet, they heard the gun salute from a funeral home down the block.
"We all assumed this guy was cranking off rounds somewhere," Nollette said.
The misunderstanding was soon cleared up, and investigators found a discarded sweat shirt and pair of pants they believe had been worn by the bank robber.
"Now we have a really good idea who he is," Nollette said.
http://www.seattleinsider.com/news/2002/06/05/bankrobbery.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Gun Salute at Vet's Funeral Rattles Police Chasing Bank Robber
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE -- Police thought they were about to catch a bank robber at a fast-food outlet when shots rang out.
Dozens of officers raced to the scene, only to find some abandoned clothing -- and to learn that the gunfire came from a military honor guard shooting blanks in a salute at a veteran's funeral nearby.
The episode began Tuesday afternoon when a man passed a note demanding money to a teller at a Wells Fargo Bank branch at a Safeway store on Capitol Hill, police officer Deanna Nollette said.
He did not show a weapon but took an undisclosed amount of the money, flagged down a taxicab and fled, Nollette said.
As officers were being told the robber might have gotten out of the cab and entered a Jack In The Box outlet, they heard the gun salute from a funeral home down the block.
"We all assumed this guy was cranking off rounds somewhere," Nollette said.
The misunderstanding was soon cleared up, and investigators found a discarded sweat shirt and pair of pants they believe had been worn by the bank robber.
"Now we have a really good idea who he is," Nollette said.
http://www.seattleinsider.com/news/2002/06/05/bankrobbery.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878