UPDATE: Officer shoots and kills 50-year-old bank robbery suspect( WI)

WEAU ^ | 30 October, 2009 | na

[marktwain]

An armed bank robbery turns deadly Friday afternoon. It happened Dairyland State Bank in Exeland in Sawyer County around 2:30 p.m.

Officers arrested one man near Deer Lake in Sawyer County. A massive search was underway for another suspect that ran into the woods. He’s described as a white man around 6’5’’ and 200 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.

The Rusk County sheriff says an officer shot and killed a third man after he stayed in the car and took of south into Rusk County. The chase ended near Bruce where the man was shot.

WEAU 13 News talked to the president of Dairyland State Bank. But, all Robert Hegeholz would say is that no one was hurt during the actual bank robbery in Exeland.

Dairyland State Bank is the sixth bank robbed in our area this month. But, it's what happened after the robbery that sets it apart; it's the only one where someone was killed. No one had even been hurt up to this point.

"It's always a tragedy when an officer has to fire a weapon toward or at anybody," says Rusk County Sheriff David Kaminski.

Kaminski says a deputy was sent to northern Rusk County after the bank robbery in Exeland. Officers from the Rusk County Sheriff's Department and the DNR eventually caught up with that car.

“During the chase alleged shots were fired by the suspect toward the officers' vehicle. The officers ended up stopping the vehicle and at that point shots were fired by the officers; allegedly also by the suspect,” Kaminski says.

[marktwain]

Lots of updates and some commentary at the link. Good work by the Rusk Sheriffs office, and all the Northern Wisconsin officers and citizens. It just does not pay to try to do armed robbery in these small towns.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

"It's always a tragedy when an officer has to fire a weapon toward or at anybody," says Rusk County Sheriff David Kaminski.

Spare me, Dave.

[Red in Blue PA]

"It's always a tragedy when an officer has to fire a weapon toward or at anybody," says Rusk County Sheriff David Kaminski.

I bet the parents of the Columbine students killed would disagree.

[Eagles6]

They notified the public of the race of the suspect? Is that legal? Oh, he’s White. Never mind.

[Blue Collar Christian]

WEAU. Sounds like what Keanu Reeves says when he ad libs a line.

Glad the cops won this one. Can you believe some people want cops to NOT chase guys like that?

[gaijin]

no, no...At columbine, both those perps died via suicide. The cops stayed outside cowering for hours —mostly they just stoodby, waiting, while all those inside were shot.

It’s famous.

[Dr. Sivana]

Spare me, Dave.

Cut him some slack. There's always some vultures looking for an excuse to launch a lawsuit. His men did the right thing, and they aren't getting in trouble. The operative phrase is "has to fire." Nothing wrong with being diplomatic as long as you don't sacrifice principle. Even the use of the word "tragedy," means that the recipient had a tragic flaw, and had set out on a trajectory that can only end the way it did.