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Nebraska Bank Victims Were Slain Execution Style
Josey1
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This happened -- in case you have missed it -- in a state where concealed carry by lawful, peaceable citizens is illegal and where concealed carry reforms have been thwarted by people who apparently like having their neighbors easy to murder.
Nebraska Bank Victims Were Slain Execution Style
September 27, 2002 04:11 PM ET
NORFOLK (Reuters) - Five people killed during the deadliest bank robbery in Nebraska history were shot execution style within 40 seconds of when three bandits entered the building, a police investigator said on Friday.
But Norfolk Police Capt. Steve Hecker said the reason for the violence was unknown and that one of the bandits, Erick Vela, simply told him that despite weeks of planning the crime "It went to hell in the bank."
It also remained unknown whether any money was actually stolen from the strip mall U.S. Bank branch in this northeast Nebraska town of 23,000. Police said they had not recovered a significant amount of cash.
Hecker made the revelations during a hearing in Madison County District Court where Judge Richard Krepela ordered Vela and his three alleged accomplices held without bond.
Charged with five counts of first degree murder each were Vela, 21, Jorge Galindo, 21 and Jose Sandoval, 23, the three who allegedly carried out the shooting inside the bank, and Gabriel Rodriquez, 26, who Hecker said checked the bank out just before and radioed the placement of the people inside to his accomplices.
The first three were arrested after they fled to a nearby town using two stolen vehicles while Rodriguez was arrested in Norfolk hours later.
Hecker told the hearing that the victims, three women and a man who worked for the bank and a woman customer, all died within 40 seconds of when the bandits entered the door, all with gunshots to the head at close range.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=1507318
"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
Nebraska Bank Victims Were Slain Execution Style
September 27, 2002 04:11 PM ET
NORFOLK (Reuters) - Five people killed during the deadliest bank robbery in Nebraska history were shot execution style within 40 seconds of when three bandits entered the building, a police investigator said on Friday.
But Norfolk Police Capt. Steve Hecker said the reason for the violence was unknown and that one of the bandits, Erick Vela, simply told him that despite weeks of planning the crime "It went to hell in the bank."
It also remained unknown whether any money was actually stolen from the strip mall U.S. Bank branch in this northeast Nebraska town of 23,000. Police said they had not recovered a significant amount of cash.
Hecker made the revelations during a hearing in Madison County District Court where Judge Richard Krepela ordered Vela and his three alleged accomplices held without bond.
Charged with five counts of first degree murder each were Vela, 21, Jorge Galindo, 21 and Jose Sandoval, 23, the three who allegedly carried out the shooting inside the bank, and Gabriel Rodriquez, 26, who Hecker said checked the bank out just before and radioed the placement of the people inside to his accomplices.
The first three were arrested after they fled to a nearby town using two stolen vehicles while Rodriguez was arrested in Norfolk hours later.
Hecker told the hearing that the victims, three women and a man who worked for the bank and a woman customer, all died within 40 seconds of when the bandits entered the door, all with gunshots to the head at close range.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=1507318
"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