The Take-Over Bandits Update

[TexasStooge]

Video shows bandits opened fire on police cars

By REBECCA LOPEZ / WFAA ABC 8

RICHARDSON, Texas - A dashcam video released by Richardson police on Monday shows bullets from high-powered rifles flying through the window of a police cruiser, as the so-called Takeover Bandits made their getaway following a bank robbery last week.

Richardson officers responded Thursday morning to a call that the American First National Bank at 400 N. Greenville Ave. was being robbed. They caught up with the fleeing suspects and began a chase that took them north on Central Expressway and into Plano.

The video from one vehicle shows an officer attempting to follow the suspects' getaway car on to the highway when the suspect vehicle suddenly veers back onto the service road and unleashes a storm of bullets, shattering the rear window of their car and piercing the front of the police cruiser.

Another dashcam view from several minutes later in the chase shows the suspects, who by now had abandoned their first vehicle and stolen another, slamming into a pole at the intersection of Jupiter and Summit in East Plano. The suspects jump out of the car, grab what appears to be some bags from the vehicle, and continue shooting at Richardson and Plano police officers.

Amazingly, no officers were shot; only one officer suffered minor injuries from flying glass.

One of the suspects in the robbery, 31-year-old Guadalupe Fajardo, turned himself in to authorities in the Panhandle town of Slayton, where he was apparently visiting relatives. Fajardo was transported back to North Texas Monday afternoon.

The other suspects are still at large.

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Bullets fly from the suspects' vehicle during last week's chase.
(Photo courtesy of WFAA ABC 8)

Alan Melson of the Dallasnews.com web staff contributed to this report.

[TexasStooge]

Here's the link to the video.

http://www.wfaa.com/perl/common/video/w ... cam_am.wmv