A robbery followed by a chase and a shootout in the middle of the traffic cost in the U.S. state of Florida four people. In addition to the two armed Criminal, a hostage taken parcel service driver and a car occupant was killed.
This is a FBI spokesman said on Thursday (local time). The fatal shots were fired at the end of the chase at a busy intersection of the city of Miramar in the midst of many cars standing.
The two armed offenders had attacked according to the figures, in the late afternoon, a jewelry store in the city of Coral Gables in Miami. On the run, they hijacked the Transporter of a package delivery service, and brought the driver in their violence. The police gave chase, while the Transporter is pushed with high speed through the evening traffic, and just other cars raced by. The action was transmitted by TV cameras from helicopters live.
Transporter remained in traffic
About 40 used vehicles were recorded according to CNN, the tracking on the van. The convoy had extended to almost a kilometre in length.
stuck As the van finally in front of the intersection in heavy traffic, stayed, tried, several police officers to surround the vehicle. It came to the shootout, in addition to the two robbers, the two Innocents were killed. Up to the complete elucidation of the complex Case it will take due to the large number of witness statements, and different crime scenes, probably for a very long time, said the FBI spokesman more.
package delivery service “deeply shaken”
Who had made the first shots, was still unclear. The subject of the investigations was also, who had killed the postal service and the uninvolved motorists.
The package service company, said in a Statement on thursd evening of the events. “We are deeply shocked that one of our employees was a victim of this senseless act of Violence. We speak to family and friends, as well as the other in this incident involved victims our condolences.” (sho/sda)
Created: 06.12.2019, 13:03 PM
