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> http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=36&u_sid=515484
> 
> Police capture Norfolk bank robbery suspects
> 
> BY KARYN SPENCER AND CHAD PURCELL
>     
> Norfolk bank robbery  
>    
> NORFOLK, Neb. - Five people were killed Thursday morning inside a U.S.
> Bank branch in Norfolk in a rare fatal bank robbery. 
> 
>    
> A Norfolk police officer directs traffic in front of the U.S. Bank
> after the robbery. 
>  
> A sixth person, a female customer, was treated for a gunshot wound to
> the shoulder and was released, according to a spokeswoman for Faith
> Regional Health Services in Norfolk. 
> 
> Two other bank employees in the building at the time were unharmed,
> Police Chief Bill Mizner said. 
> 
> About three hours later, shortly before noon, three suspects were
> taken into custody in O'Neill, Neb., about 75 miles northwest of
> Norfolk. At the time of the robbery, authorities said they were
> seeking three Latino men wearing baggy pants. 
>   
> The men were identified as Jose Sandoval, Jorge A. Galindo and Erick
> Fernando Vela. Their hometowns and ages were not immediately
> available.
> 
> The men were in a pickup that had been stolen in Tilden, which is in
> between Norfolk and O'Neill on U.S. Highway 275, Holt County Attorney
> Tom Herzog said.
> 
> The victims are bank customer Evonne Tuttle, 37, of Stanton, Neb.; and
> bank employees Lola Elwood, 43, Lisa Bryant, 29 and Samuel Sun, 50 -
> all of Norfolk - and Jo Mausbach, 42, of Humphrey, Neb.
> 
> Lester Felger, who had been the bank manager of that branch until
> 1996, was dumbfounded by the news. 
> 
> "All hell must have broken loose inside there," Felger said. 
> 
> The robbers killed four employees and one customer shortly before 9
> a.m. at the bank off U.S. Highway 81, Mizner said. 
> 
> Several bullets broke windows at the nearby Burger King restaurant,
> but no one was injured. Shellee Honcik, an accountant who was working
> next door in a Burger King restaurant during the robbery, said about
> 12 customers and eight employees were in the restaurant at the time. 
> 
> "Everyone started screaming when the window shattered," Honcik said.
> "We're all still in shock." 
> 
> Police believe the robbers broke into a house near the bank and stole
> a white 2003 Subaru with in-transit plates. 
> 
> The Subaru had been located in rural western Madison County, Nebraska
> State Patrol Capt. Brad Rice said. He did not give an exact location.
> Tilden, where the truck was stolen, is in western Madison County.
> 
> Authorities would not comment on whether the robbers got away with any
> money. 
> 
> Mizner said the FBI, Nebraska State Patrol, Madison County Sheriff's
> Office and Madison County Attorney's Office were assisting the Norfolk
> Police Department in the investigation. 
> 
> Inclement weather prevented the State Patrol from using its helicopter
> and three planes in the search for the suspects. 
> 
> The patrol, which has a troop headquarters in Norfolk, pulled in
> officers from other areas of the state to help, said State Patrol
> spokeswoman Terri Teuber. 
> 
> Attorney Jan Einspahr, whose office is next to the bank, heard no
> ruckus. 
> 
> "We didn't hear gunfire or see anything," Einspahr said. "We didn't
> know that something happened until all of sudden there were police
> cars in our parking lot." 
> 
> Schools were locked down as police searched for the suspects. Only
> students escorted by their parents could leave, Norfolk Schools
> Superintendent Randy Nelson said. 
> 
> Junior High Principal David Wright said he sent an e-mail to teachers
> to read to students. After explaining the facts as known early
> Thursday, it offered words of assurance: "All doors are locked and you
> are safe at this time." 
> 
> Wright said only a couple of students had left the building by late
> morning. 
> 
> Sheila Schukei, human resources director, said shootings in Norfolk
> are usually related to domestic fights or gangs or drugs. But that
> doesn't seem to be the case here, she said. 
> 
> "It's scary," Schukei said. "There's a pall over the city. It's just
> absolutely devastating." 
> 
> Felger said bank employees were trained to hand over money during
> robberies to avoid violence. 
> 
> He thought Thursday's crime sounded impulsive because the bank is in a
> congested area for traffic and the robbers had to steal a car. 
> 
> "They didn't even have a getaway car," said Felger, who was in the
> banking business for 16 years without a robbery. 
> 
> Bank robberies typically don't turn violent, according to a national
> company that trains bank employees on security measures. 
> 
> "That's extremely rare," said Richard Ottenstein of the Workplace
> Trauma Center in Maryland. "In a typical robbery, the robber is
> interested in getting the money and getting out." 
> 
> After participating in a late-morning ribbon-cutting ceremony in
> Omaha, Gov. Mike Johanns canceled the rest of his scheduled events
> Thursday and headed to Norfolk. 
> 
> "I need to be up there, absolutely," Johanns said. "It's a very, very
> tragic event. I know I speak for the entire state when I extend my
> sympathies to the families and friends of the victims." 
> 
> Banks in surrounding communities locked their front doors to
> customers, but kept drive-through windows open. 
> 
> World-Herald staff writers David Hendee, Judith Nygren and Julia
> McCord contributed to this report, which also includes material from
> the Associated Press.

Just another blessing of diversity. And we are to blame. Only
EuroAmericans are so dense that they import cancer cells. But of
course, these hispanics keep our food costs down.

Gary