Thread: ROBBERS KILL INNOCENT BYSTANDER DURING CAR CHASE

ROBBERS KILL INNOCENT BYSTANDER DURING CAR CHASE

Four Hispanics, rumored to be illegals, killed an innocent bystander after they fled in their vehicle from the scene of an armed robbery that they'd just committed.

This occurred in the Third World sewer state of South Florida.

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Manhunt continues for 1 after 4 rob grocery, kill passerby while fleeing

By Kevin Deutsch

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Friday, November 30, 2007

A Delray man was killed while driving down Atlantic Avenue with his wife in the passenger seat by shots aimed at the owner of Three Amigos, who was pursuing four men after the grocery store was robbed.

Lt. Mike Wallace of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Violent Crimes Task Force said three of the four suspects were caught after they ditched their rented red Dodge Charger and fled into the Picadilly Square shopping complex near Boca Rio Road and Glades Road. The three were identified by the robbery victims as the men who stormed Three Amigos at State Road 441 and Boynton Beach Boulevard shortly after 1 p.m. today, he said.

Samuel Salomon, 70, was driving eastbound on Atlantic when the car the robbers were in exited the turnpike, Wallace said. They were trying to hit a white Mercedes drive by the Three Amigos owner, he said. Instead a bullet hit Salomon.

"He's a random innocent victim who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time," Wallace said.

Salomon died at Delray Medical Center, Wallace said.

Law enforcement is searching the fourth man.

Calls from tipsters led authorities to intensify their search of a wooded area just north of Picadilly Square, the sheriff's office reported about 5:30 p.m., where someone spotted a man who matched the description of the fourth armed robber. Deputies are conducting an intensive manhunt in that area with K-9 patrols.

The K-9s are tracking a scent through the woods that trails from the International Jewelers Exchange, a store the fourth suspect went into, authorities said, but left after seeing an armed guard.

In addition to the man killed at Atlantic Avenue, where the fleeing robbers temporarily got off the turnpike before making a U-turn, authorities reported, the robbers showed little regard for bystanders at the grocery store. Alejandro Cisneros, 40, of Zacapetas, Mexico, was at Three Amigos after work with five other friends, who all work as horse groomers, to cash their checks and buy some food. He was standing at the door and his friends were walking toward the register when two armed men pushed past, he said. One punched him in the face.

Cisneros said he stepped out of the double-doors and ran across the street to an agricultural equipment store, where and asked the clerk to call police.

The two men had guns; one gun was short and one looked like a machine gun, he said. He didn't see what happened next, because, he told a reporter in Spanish, "I got the hell out." One of his friends was kicked and thrown to the floor, his wallet with $1,000 — three weeks pay — taken. Another lost $800.

"I quickly reacted," he said. "I knew I had to get out or get killed." Later, deputies recovered a backpack in the western Boca Raton parking lot near the abandoned Dodge. It had an Uzi and another black semi-automatic gun in it. Investigators believe a third gun, a revolver, was used the in the robbery but hasn't been recovered. Money was also recovered, but maybe not all of the $20,000 to $30,000 that was stolen from Three Amigos, Wallace said.

It is known in the community that Three Amigos, had extra cash on Fridays, Wallace said.

"They knew on Fridays they cashed checks and they knew on Friday they had a lot of money there," he said.

Three men entered the store while one waited in the rented car as lookout; they did not wear masks and investigators have surveillance video from the store, authorities said.

As the Dodge fled from the scene of the grocery store, the driver went as fast as 100 mph trying to escape, authorities reported. A Broward County off-duty deputy was near the fleeing vehicle at one point during the turnpike chase. But law enforcement didn't catch up with the suspects until they abandoned the getaway car miles to the south beneath the turnpike overpass near Boca Rio Road.

One suspect was found hiding in a Dumpster near Mattress Giant at the West Boca Place shopping complex next door to Picadilly Square, another near Mattress Giant and a third near Office Depot, Wallace said.

Shoppers said officers searched the adjoining complexes, their guns drawn.

Investigators requested surveillance footage from businesses and the shopping center. Several businesses closed early.

"All the police came and they had their guns out," said Nan Dominguez, who was at Dunkin' Donuts with her husband. "They were scurrying around. Everyone was scared. People were going into their businesses because they were in fear of what might happen." The incident spanning three major western intersections, began when four men burst into the store at 9860 W. Boynton Boulevard at 1:11 p.m. and ordered seven customers and the employees inside to get on the ground, said sheriff's office spokesman Paul Miller.

They headed south on the Florida Turnpike. When they exited at Atlantic Avenue, they fired at least four shots toward the Mercedes, one of which hit the Mercedes, the Three Amigos owner told authorities, and one of which killed Salomon.

After the shooting, the robbers got back on the Turnpike, exited at Glades Road, and fled into the nearby shopping area. The robber who is still at large tonight is described as being 6-foot-tall and wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans.

The investigation caused authorities to close exits at Atlantic Avenue during much of the Friday peak after-work traffic times and the search caused traffic snarls at Glades Road as well.


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