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Post by tcrashfx on Apr 5, 2007 18:04:01 GMT -5
READINGTON, N.J. (AP) -- An FBI agent was killed in a shootout with three bank robbery suspects Thursday in north central New Jersey, a law enforcement official said. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the agent's family had not been told of his death, said the agent was alive when brought to University Hospital in Newark by helicopter, but efforts to save him failed. Other law enforcement officials, also speaking anonymously because the investigation was ongoing, said agents were investigating a string of recent bank robberies in central New Jersey when they came upon the suspects leaving a bank near Route 22 in Readington. A shootout ensued. Two suspects were captured and one was being sought in nearby woods, officials said. State and local authorities are searching for the suspects with helicopters and dogs. hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AGENT_SHOT?SITE=NDBIS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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Longshot! [ Saint ]
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Post by Longshot! [ Saint ] on Apr 7, 2007 3:34:50 GMT -5
What...no follow-up on just how he was killed?
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Post by augie47 on Apr 7, 2007 7:12:14 GMT -5
unfortunately, I did hear "follow-up".......friendly fire
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Post by tcrashfx on Apr 7, 2007 7:32:15 GMT -5
Damn.
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Post by Felix on Apr 7, 2007 7:45:58 GMT -5
A sad case. Here is a link. One of the suspects asked officers, " Just shoot me." It must take a lot of restraint not to comply with that request, given the circumstances. *Edited for additional link.
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Post by TNBear on Apr 7, 2007 15:52:55 GMT -5
From what I've read so far the bad guys never fired their weapons.
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Post by tcrashfx on Apr 11, 2007 3:50:14 GMT -5
Report: SWAT member thought FBI agent was bank robber
Home News Tribune Online 04/8/07
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Report: SWAT member thought FBI agent was bank robber NEWARK........ During the arrest of suspects thought to be involved in a string of violent bank heists, one FBI agent may have mistook a fellow agent for a robber and fired the shot that killed him, according to a newspaper report. Special Agent Barry Lee Bush, 52, died Thursday after being shot while helping take down the suspected robbers at a Readington bank. Bureau officials have released few details of Bush's death, pending an investigation, saying in a statement Thursday only that he ""may have been fatally wounded as a result of the accidental discharge of another agent's weapon during a dynamic arrest situation.'' But a report by The Star-Ledger of Newark for Sunday's newspapers that cites two law-enforcement sources close to the investigation says Bush's death may have been a case of mistaken identity.
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