Suspect in custody for Cairo bank robbery (Two employees murdered)Cairo, IL

WPSD Local 6 ^ | 5/16/2014 | Nick Miller

[MCF]

"Authorities say that two of the female employees suffered fatal stab wounds. The Illinois State Police say 52 year-old Anita Grace, of Olive Branch, and 52 year-old Nita Smith, of Wickliffe, Kentucky, died due to fatal stab founds at the robbery.

The name of the third victim, a 23 year-old female, will not been released, according to ISP. She remains in critical condition."

[2ndDivisionVet]

James Watts, suspect in custody.

[Ken H]

Beat me to it.

[yarddog]

It is a good thing he didn’t have a gun. Somebody could have gotten hurt.

[petercooper]

More black on white murders. Nothing to see.

[Mastador1]

It is a good thing he didn’t have a gun. Somebody could have gotten hurt.

However he did seem to have an assault knife! Payers to the victims and their families and a heres hoping for a short life for the SOB.

[yarddog]

I was just thinking that in this area there are two types of crime in which you can’t just assume the perp is Black.

Bank robbery and meth labs. Now if it had been a convenience store robbery or a gang related murder the odds are very strong that the usual suspects are involved.

[rjsimmon]

However he did seem to have an assault knife!

Is that a knife with a bayonet lug?

[Slings and Arrows]

It’s Hellinois - no death penalty. He’ll live a long life on the taxpayers’ dime.

[Mastador1]

I can always hope for an accident, a painful, catastrophic accident which impacts only one specific individual.

[AmusedBystander]

It’s Hellinois - no death penalty. He’ll live a long life on the taxpayers’ dime.

Federal crime, but he will still live a long time in Marion.

[Slings and Arrows]

I’ll join you.

[Slings and Arrows]

Still less than what he deserves.

[hal ogen]

Cairo IL is a real small dump of a town. Who would have thought a feral degenerate would try to rob the bank there.

[Don Corleone]

BTW that city name is pronounced Karo.. not Cairo as you would imagine. But then it is Illinois, pronounced *&^%*&^%!

[hanamizu]

It is a good thing he didn’t have a gun. Somebody could have gotten hurt.

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In point of fact, the perp did have a gun. He just preferred to use the blade. This is a local story and there are lots of odd details. He accosted the women as they were leaving the closed bank and forced them back inside. Since the bank’s money was safe in the vault, he stole the women’s purses and made his getaway in one of the women’s car. Two dead and one in the hospital for what amounts to a purse snatching.

What I want to know, is why a bank in Cairo, Illinois (a failed town if ever there was one) lets three women close up with no armed protection.

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