CP24 is saying that bank robbers kidnapped an employee from her Peel Region home Saturday and took her to the TD branch at Kipling Ave and the Queensway where she was forced to open the bank. Police responded to an alarm and arrived at the bank about 15 minutes before the 8 a.m. opening. In a confrontation, one of the robbers was shot by police but cops were unable to stop the other man escaping in a silver compact car. The news that a bank employee was kidnapped suggests that the crime was an inside job. After taking the employee to the bank, a suspect forced her and another worker at the bank into the vault where they were able to hit a distress code to alert police CP24 says.
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It appears the two women had a harrowing escape from the robbers as they ran for their lives during a gun battle. CP24 says “When the suspect left the bank, he found officers waiting, so he went back in to grab the two employees and walked back out with them. The employees then ran toward the officers and an exchange of gunfire ensued, the sources said. The 30-year-old suspect was shot once in the torso outside the bank when many officers opened fire, investigators have said. The second man is described as a white male between 40 and 50 years old. He was driving a compact silver vehicle.”
