Posted on 02/18/2004 5:33:18 PM PST by blam
Gunman Ambushes Detroit Armored Car Crew
Thursday February 19, 2004 1:01 AM
DETROIT (AP) - A gunman in a black ski mask ambushed the crew of an armored car as they loaded cash from a bank ATM Wednesday, killing one guard and critically wounding another. The gunman apparently fled without any money, police said.
The gunman walked around a corner of the Comerica Bank branch where three guards had parked their truck and opened fire with a rifle, said police spokesman Derek Jones. He fled in a white van, Jones said.
Police later found the van and an empty money bag, but Jones said no money was missing from the armored car and the bag apparently was empty when it was taken.
Jones said the uninjured guard drove the armored car away after his co-workers were shot at, as is standard procedure.
The guards were taken to a local hospital: Gerald Kikos, 36, died of his wounds and Tommie Scott, 29, was in critical condition.
Rayna Kikos, the slain guard's wife, said her husband wanted to leave his job because he was worried about a robbery of another armored car last week in Detroit.
``He said I don't want to go, and I know I have to,'' Kikos said. ``And that he wouldn't have it any other way because he knows he has family and has to support his family.''
The ambush occurred two days after two Detroit police officers were shot and killed after making a traffic stop.
Gunman Kills Two Detroit Police Officers.
What's going on in Detroit?
Try again tomorrow?
I wondered the same thing myself. I thought the murder of the two young police officers was horrorific enough, but this just compounds it.
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