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ERIE, Pa. - A pizza deliveryman who robbed a bank, then was killed by a bomb fastened around his neck, was told he had just 55 minutes to disarm the explosive, according to details from a coroner's report. Brian Wells, 46, died shortly after the Aug. 28 robbery. He told police who apprehended him that he had been forced to rob the bank by someone who locked the collar bomb around his neck. Authorities surrounded Wells and were waiting for a bomb squad to arrive when the device detonated. The report by the Erie County Coroner's Office includes previously unreleased...

A pizza delivery man who robbed a bank and was killed by a bomb locked to his neck was once arrested after allegedly threatening neighbors and a judge, according to a police report. Brian Wells apparently called a judge in 1991, saying he wanted his neighbors evicted from their home in Erie or he would "put a bullet in their heads," the Erie Times-News reported Saturday, citing a police report. Wells, 46, died Aug. 28 after robbing a bank near Erie. Before he died, Wells told police he had been forced to rob the bank by someone who locked the...

Investigators into the bombing death of Brian Wells were back in Summit Township on Tuesday looking for evidence in connection with Wells’ reported claim that he was apprehended at gunpoint and then shot at before he robbed a bank wearing a bomb. Meanwhile, the FBI is also still looking for two men who were seen at locations connected to the August 28th PNC bank robbery Erie County Deputy Coroner Korac Timon says that Wells` wounds from that bomb were superficial, but it was the primary blast, or the energy and percussion of that bomb that actually killed him. And after...

2 Men Sought in Bomb Death After Robbery By JAMES DAO ASHINGTON, Sept. 8 — The F.B.I. today released drawings of two men wanted for questioning in a bank robbery in Erie, Pa., last month that resulted in the death of a pizza deliveryman. The victim, Brian D. Wells, was killed when a bomb locked around his neck exploded shortly after he robbed a PNC Bank on Aug. 28. Before he died, Mr. Wells told the police that he had been forced by unknown assailants to wear the weapon and rob the bank. Investigators said today in a news conference...

<p>Cops are baffled by the case of pizza deliveryman Brian Wells.</p> <p>September 7, 2003 -- ERIE, Pa. - Four hidden keys may have saved Brian Wells from being blown up by the pipe bomb that was shackled to his neck. Wells was the 46-year-old pizza delivery man who was killed by the bomb 40 minutes after robbing a PNC Bank in Erie on Aug. 28.</p>

<p>ERIE, Pa. -- As they continue to search for the maker of the unusual neck-clamp bomb that killed pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells, investigators are also examining an equally unique gun found in Wells' car to determine if it was made by the same person.</p>