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GREER, S.C. (May 17) - Robbers gunned down a bank employee and two customers at a branch housed in a roadside trailer, the nation's deadliest bank robbery in several months, authorities said.
Investigators released few details but said they were looking for two people in a red sedan, police Chief Dean Crisp said.
Authorities said there were no signs of struggle inside the green trailer that housed the only South Carolina branch of the Asheville, N.C.-based Blue Ridge Savings Bank, located along Interstate 85 about halfway between Greenville and Spartanburg.
''This was a senseless, heinous crime,'' Crisp said.
Construction workers in the area told investigators they saw a red sedan pull up to the bank, then leave with two people inside just before police arrived. Crisp said money was taken, but the amount was not known.
Sylvia Holtzclaw, who was working alone, and customers James Barnes, 62, and his wife, Margaret, 58, were found dead Friday after police responded to a panic alert around 1:30 p.m., Crisp said.
The victims were killed with a large caliber handgun, authorities said. Crisp said another employee had stepped out before the robbery took place.
Tom Begley returned after hearing the alarm had been pulled, his daughter Casi, 26, told The Greenville News. Her father called her to say he was fine, but was not able to say more. He was being interviewed by the FBI late Friday, Casi Begley said.
''We don't know anything except that he is OK,'' she said.
The incident was the deadliest U.S. bank robbery since Sept. 26, when three gunmen killed five people at a US Bank branch in Norfolk, Neb.
AP-NY-05-17-03 0330EDT
Investigators released few details but said they were looking for two people in a red sedan, police Chief Dean Crisp said.
Authorities said there were no signs of struggle inside the green trailer that housed the only South Carolina branch of the Asheville, N.C.-based Blue Ridge Savings Bank, located along Interstate 85 about halfway between Greenville and Spartanburg.
''This was a senseless, heinous crime,'' Crisp said.
Construction workers in the area told investigators they saw a red sedan pull up to the bank, then leave with two people inside just before police arrived. Crisp said money was taken, but the amount was not known.
Sylvia Holtzclaw, who was working alone, and customers James Barnes, 62, and his wife, Margaret, 58, were found dead Friday after police responded to a panic alert around 1:30 p.m., Crisp said.
The victims were killed with a large caliber handgun, authorities said. Crisp said another employee had stepped out before the robbery took place.
Tom Begley returned after hearing the alarm had been pulled, his daughter Casi, 26, told The Greenville News. Her father called her to say he was fine, but was not able to say more. He was being interviewed by the FBI late Friday, Casi Begley said.
''We don't know anything except that he is OK,'' she said.
The incident was the deadliest U.S. bank robbery since Sept. 26, when three gunmen killed five people at a US Bank branch in Norfolk, Neb.
AP-NY-05-17-03 0330EDT
