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Miami Beach bank robbery suspect killed by police

 
Published Dec. 7, 2015

MIAMI BEACH — Police in Miami Beach say they killed a razor-wielding man suspected in a bank robbery early Saturday.

Police responded to an emergency call from a Bank of America branch, according to Kathleen Prieto of the Miami Beach Police Department. The person who made the 911 call said a suspect was armed with a bomb and had passed a note to the teller.

Prieto said police arrived at the scene and found the suspect inside a barber shop. He then exited the shop with a "straight edge razor in his hand." Shots were fired and the suspect was killed.

Witnesses told the Miami Herald that the man was causing a commotion inside the barber shop.

A video of a shooting on Miami Beach was posted on Instagram and elsewhere on social media. In the video, a man without a shirt is seen briefly confronting what appeared to be at least three police officers outside a shopping center. The man is shot and falls to the ground.

Police Chief Daniel Oates said one officer on the scene was wearing a body camera that also captured the deadly encounter, but that the video can't be released to the public yet under state law.

Mayor Philip Levine called the shooting "a horrible, isolated incident."