KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City woman trusted her instincts and kept a would-be carjacker out of her car last Friday. Little did she know, he was a suspect in a bank robbery that happened just minutes before.
Despite her brush with an armed gunman, the woman was back at work Monday.
“I am not a victim. I was not going to let that man take anything away from me and I didn’t let him take anything from me,” explained Sue.
She had just left work Friday afternoon when a man started banging on her car door.
“He showed the gun and pointed it right at me and he said, ‘open the door’ and I said, ‘no’ and I threw my car in gear and I stomped the accelerator and I took off,” said Sue.
Steve Fortner, the owner of Steve’s Floral Shop saw what happened next.
“I said, ‘what’s going on?’ She went around this corner about 80 miles an hour and he fell off,” explained Fortner.
Fortner said the suspect then tried to carjack someone else, but police were hot on his tail.
“He had crossed the street and that’s when he police officers swarmed him, 20 of them swarmed him, and that’s when they had shot him,” said Fortner.
Those three shots brought an end to a wild Friday afternoon. Police say the suspect robbed the Commerce Bank a block away. The FBI reports the suspect told the teller he had a bomb. Once he had the cash, he ran through an adjoining building and when he made it to the street, Sue was his target. After she didn’t cave in, police say his next move was pulling a gun.
The suspect is still in the hospital and the FBI is handling the bank robbery, KCPD detectives have the rest. No word yet on when federal or state charges will be filed.
