The suspect in an armed robbery at a downtown Chattanooga bank in March was killed by state troopers in Oklahoma following another robbery, Chattanooga police confirmed Thursday.
Rosendo Enrique Rivero was in a shootout with law enforcement after reportedly robbing a bank in Wellington, Kansas, four days after the robbery at Regions Bank in Chattanooga.
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News reports state Rivero fled from the Kansas bank with around $5,000 in a silver Chrysler, starting a chase with troopers after crossing into Oklahoma. After Rivero started firing, reports say, troopers fired back and killed him.
"We were able to forensically relate that individual back to the robbery here in Chattanooga," Executive Chief Harry Sommers said during a media briefing Thursday. "It was the same person."
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Rivero entered the Market Street branch of the bank around 10:30 a.m. March 20 and fired multiple warning shots while standing on a counter over a bank employee. Video shows he took an unknown amount of money in a bag he threw at the employee, who was seen filling the bag with cash from a drawer.
Police said Rivero fled the scene on foot by the time officers arrived. No one was injured.
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After the robbery, Chattanooga police said they were seeking a suspect they believed was a white or light-skinned man. Rivero, a Black man, was wearing all black clothing and a face covering during the robbery, surveillance footage from the bank shows.
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Chattanooga Police Department / Chattanooga police asked for the public's assistance in identifying the suspect from the robbery at Regions Bank on March. The suspect has been identified as Rosendo Rivero, who was killed in a shootout following another robbery in Kansas.