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Blast to face makes robber hard to ID
By THOMAS LAKE, Times Staff Writer
Published September 11, 2007
PORT RICHEY -- Dead bank robber's identity hard to confirm The identity of the bank robber who shot himself outside Dillard's department store Friday remained uncertain on Monday, partly for this reason: the blast from the sawed-off shotgun disfigured his face. The Sheriff's Office said that about 3 p.m. Friday, a white man, perhaps in his 40s, walked into the Colonial Bank at 9431 U.S. 19, handed the teller a note and took off with an undisclosed sum. He was riding a bicycle toward the Gulf View Square mall, dropping money as he went. As a driver chased him down, he fell off his bicycle. He took out the shotgun and fired into the air, according to the Sheriff's Office. "Bye," he said, and fired again.
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