The Associated Press
PHELPS, N.Y. -- A suspected teenage bank robber was killed Wednesday in a shootout with a sheriff’s deputy in a small town in western New York.
A 19-year-old man armed with a 12-gauge shotgun blew out a security camera while robbing a branch of Ontario National Bank in Phelps, 30 miles southeast of Rochester, Sheriff Phil Povero said.
Bank employees called 911 and a veteran deputy, Kevin Owens, arrived just in time to see the suspect driving out of the parking lot, the sheriff said.
The deputy chased the suspect for about a mile in an unmarked car before the suspect’s car drove off the road and hit a utility pole.
The suspect got out of the car and shot the deputy in the ankle, Povero said. The officer returned fire and wounded him, then shot him a second time when the suspect appeared to take aim again, the sheriff said.
The victim’s identity was not immediately disclosed, and details of the robbery remained sketchy.