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06-02-2009, 10:04 PM
One guard has been killed and another person injured in the robbery of an armored vehicle at the Lakewood Wal-Mart store, the Pierce County Sheriff's Department reported.
The shooting victim has been identified as a Loomis armored car employee, Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said.
"We think one of the suspects walked up, shot him (the guard) and took the bag," sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said.
A second person - identified as a customer - was also injured. The customer has been taken to Tacoma General Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The Lakewood Police Department is the lead investigating agency. Tacoma police officers and Pierce County sheriff's deputies responded to the scene and helped search for the two suspects. The Washington State Patrol's airplane also assisted.
The suspects are being described as two black men. One is 6 feet tall, average build and wearing a white hat with colored trim across the bill, long sleeve white shirt, black pants. The second suspect is 6 feet to 6 feet2 and wearing a blue baseball hat, blue short sleeve button up shirt over a white t-shirt, blue jeans.
They might be in a white, four-door 1993 Buick Skylark with Washington license plate number 352RMD. It was reported stolen in Tacoma on April 20.
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The shooting victim has been identified as a Loomis armored car employee, Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said.
"We think one of the suspects walked up, shot him (the guard) and took the bag," sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said.
A second person - identified as a customer - was also injured. The customer has been taken to Tacoma General Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The Lakewood Police Department is the lead investigating agency. Tacoma police officers and Pierce County sheriff's deputies responded to the scene and helped search for the two suspects. The Washington State Patrol's airplane also assisted.
The suspects are being described as two black men. One is 6 feet tall, average build and wearing a white hat with colored trim across the bill, long sleeve white shirt, black pants. The second suspect is 6 feet to 6 feet2 and wearing a blue baseball hat, blue short sleeve button up shirt over a white t-shirt, blue jeans.
They might be in a white, four-door 1993 Buick Skylark with Washington license plate number 352RMD. It was reported stolen in Tacoma on April 20.
http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/crime/2009/06/02/one_dead_in_robbery_at_lakewood_wal_mart