GREENSBORO, N.C. -
One of two suspects in a high speed chase and shootout with police Monday following a bank robbery has died.
Dimarkchrisy Eddie Majors died late Monday night at Moses Cone Hospital. The second suspect, Christopher O'Neal Patterson, was also injured and remains hospitalized, although his exact condition is uknown.
Police said Majors, 22, and Patterson, 23, robbed a Wachovia along High Point Rd. on Monday afternoon before leading police on a five-minute, three-mile high-speed chase that ended along Patterson St. near Business 40, where a gunfight broke out.
Listen to police radio traffic from the chase and gunfight.
Police Captain Janice Rogers said Officer Matt O'Hal, a veteran K-9 officer who was shot in the lower part of his body and hit by the suspects' vehicle, is in stable condition.
Rogers said Majors and Patterson are suspects in several recent bank robberies. Each has a lengthy criminal record. Majors was convicted on charges of robbery, drug possession and statutory rape and spent almost three years in prison. Patterson has numerous robbery and larceny convictions.
Police credited a man who was in the parking lot of the Wachovia at the time with calling 911 and helping them track the suspects.
Audio from 911 call.
Police pursued the suspects as they sped down Holden Rd. in a dark green Infiniti. Rogers said Major is a suspect in a carjacking that occurred Monday before the bank robbery.
A traffic stop was unsuccessful, and police said the suspects began firing on the officers during the chase.
Police said a conscious decision was made to do everything possible to stop the car before it reached Business 40. They deployed stop sticks, which were unsuccessful.
Eventually, the suspect's car hit two police cruisers and came to a stop. Police said the suspects began firing at officers, who returned fire.
Police identified the officers involved in the shooting as K.D. Bennett, J.T. Cranford, J.R. Flynt, G.D. Jones, J.P. Randazzo and E.K. Wrenn.
Rogers called the officers' actions appropriate for the situation they were in. As is customary when an officer fires his weapon, the State Bureau of Investigation has been called in to investigate.
Dimarkchrisy Eddie Majors died late Monday night at Moses Cone Hospital. The second suspect, Christopher O'Neal Patterson, was also injured and remains hospitalized, although his exact condition is uknown.
Police said Majors, 22, and Patterson, 23, robbed a Wachovia along High Point Rd. on Monday afternoon before leading police on a five-minute, three-mile high-speed chase that ended along Patterson St. near Business 40, where a gunfight broke out.
Listen to police radio traffic from the chase and gunfight.
Police Captain Janice Rogers said Officer Matt O'Hal, a veteran K-9 officer who was shot in the lower part of his body and hit by the suspects' vehicle, is in stable condition.
Rogers said Majors and Patterson are suspects in several recent bank robberies. Each has a lengthy criminal record. Majors was convicted on charges of robbery, drug possession and statutory rape and spent almost three years in prison. Patterson has numerous robbery and larceny convictions.
Police credited a man who was in the parking lot of the Wachovia at the time with calling 911 and helping them track the suspects.
Audio from 911 call.
Police pursued the suspects as they sped down Holden Rd. in a dark green Infiniti. Rogers said Major is a suspect in a carjacking that occurred Monday before the bank robbery.
A traffic stop was unsuccessful, and police said the suspects began firing on the officers during the chase.
Police said a conscious decision was made to do everything possible to stop the car before it reached Business 40. They deployed stop sticks, which were unsuccessful.
Eventually, the suspect's car hit two police cruisers and came to a stop. Police said the suspects began firing at officers, who returned fire.
Police identified the officers involved in the shooting as K.D. Bennett, J.T. Cranford, J.R. Flynt, G.D. Jones, J.P. Randazzo and E.K. Wrenn.
Rogers called the officers' actions appropriate for the situation they were in. As is customary when an officer fires his weapon, the State Bureau of Investigation has been called in to investigate.
