Police1 Staff Report
(RALEIGH, N.C.) -- A mid-day bank robber lead two off-duty Raleigh police officers on a wild chase last week that ended half a mile away with the suspect wounded.
Curtis Woodall, 31, was treated for a leg wound and released from WakeMed, a medical facility, after Raleigh Police Capt. N.E. Summerlin shot him as he fled from the First Citizens Bank on Nov. 24. Woodall was taken to Johnston County Sheriff’s Department where he is being held on charges of armed robbery and first-degree kidnapping. His bail has been set at $100,000.
Summerlin was off-duty in the bank when the suspect entered at about 12 p.m. and approached a teller with a gun demanding money, according to police reports.
Woodall took the money and ran from the bank with Summerlin in pursuit.
During the chase Woodall and Summerlin exchanged gunfire that damaged several cars and left the suspect with the leg wound.
Despite his injury, police told the Raleigh News Observer, the suspect attempted to carjack a woman in the parking lot of a neighborhood Amoco station.
Woodall commanded the woman to drive him to the interstate, but instead she drove into the parking lot of a Texaco station and jumped out of the car. Woodall jumped out as well and continued his flight up a hill near the gas station, Summerlin told the News Observer.
A second off-duty officer joined the chase and the two were able to tackle and subdue the suspect. The money was recovered nearby on the hill behind the gas station.
The State Bureau of Investigation will conduct its routine investigation for police involved shootings, authorities said.