A policeman was shot to death after a bank robbery yesterday in Philadelphia. Reports say two of the suspects were dressed from head to toe in Muslim garb.
Philadelphia police said a veteran police officer was shot and killed in the Port Richmond section of the city on Saturday.
Steven Liczbinski, 40, a 12-year veteran who had just been promoted to sergeant, was shot by at least two men shortly before 11:30 a.m. Saturday, authorities said.
Police originally described a man and a woman in Muslim-type garb and a man wearing a white hospital mask. The masked man had shoulder-length dreadlocks, but Officer Tanya Little said that could be wig. Ramsey said one of those suspects had been killed, but he did not know which one.
Philly.com reported on the story as well:
"Tell my wife I'll miss her," Schiller Street residents heard dying Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski say as they went to his side.
In the Port Richmond area, Nancy Braun, 43, a homemaker and mother of two, had heard the gunfire that killed the officer.
She said she had heard several shots, then a neighbor's screams. She ran out of her door in her socks and saw the officer lying beside his patrol car near Schiller and Almond Streets.
A man, she said, was cradling Liczbinski in his arms while trying, with no success, to stop the blood gushing from his abdomen. Blood was also pouring from his elbow, she said.
As other neighbors also gathered around, Braun said the stricken officer looked up and around before uttering the words for his wife.
He then gurgled, she said. Blood leaked from his mouth. His face became ashen.
At 11:26 a.m., police radio received a report of a robbery at the Bank of America branch, which is located in a nook near the produce section of the ShopRite in the 3700 block of Aramingo Avenue.
No one was reported hurt in the incident, and police gave no information on how much money may have been taken.
A ShopRite official, not in the branch at the time, noticed the robbers as they moved away from the counter. He said they were masked and wore draped, neck-to-foot clothing. He could not tell if they were men or women. He saw no weapon.
He described one as a man wearing "Muslim garb" and carrying a shoulder bag.
He said that a second robber, apparently a woman, was wearing full-length "light-brown Muslim garb."
This is
not the first time an incident like this has happened in Philadelphia.
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UPDATE: Levon Warner (on right), 38, was charged with murder, robbery, conspiracy and related offenses. Howard Cain (on left), was shot and killed by police. A third suspect, 33-year-old Eric Floyd, is still being sought by police. Authorities recovered two vehicles one of which contained a high-powered assault rifle with 25 live rounds. From the vehicles and an alley near one of the shooting scenes, they also found two other guns, long robed clothing, and $38,000 cash-
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