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Shocking video footage shows two masked thieves using sledgehammers to smash up a Connecticut jewelry store in a brazen smash-and-grab raid. Video released by Westport police starts with quiet scenes in Lux, Bond, and Green on Main Street at about 3:10 p.m. Thursday, with only a few people in one room in the store. Suddenly, the two crooks race into another part of the store, dressed completely in dark clothing — including hoods and covered faces — apart from orange gloves.

Lamar Alexander and Ronnie Jerome Hill were the two robbery suspects who were killed in a dramatic police chase and shootout after a diamond heist at a jewelry store in the Miami, Florida area, according to the FBI. “The FBI identifies the two deceased individuals responsible for yesterday’s jewelry store robbery, carjacking/kidnapping and shootings as Lamar Alexander, 41, and Ronnie Jerome Hill, 41, both of Miami-Dade County,” a tweet from FBI Miami stated. Alexander’s family is already speaking out. “He just made bad decisions in life and it cost him his,” Alexander’s brother told WPLG’s Ian Margol. Many people were...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Gunfire erupted in the storied Waldorf-Astoria hotel during a brazen robbery attempt Saturday at a lobby jewelry store, wounding a security guard and sending guests diving for cover. An armed gunman tried to rob a jewelry store in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Saturday. An armed gunman tried to rob a jewelry store in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Saturday. The 54-year-old guard, Gregory J. Boyle, was shot in the chest but was expected to survive, and a suspect was arrested on charges including attempted murder and assault.

It was an afternoon of terror in an upscale Thornhill neighbourhood yesterday as a gunman fleeing a jewelry store heist opened fire on a cop in a schoolyard and then led police on a high-speed chase in a stolen vehicle with two hostages. York police say the drama began around 1 p.m. after they received a 911 call for an armed robbery at a jewellers in the Promenade Mall at Bathurst and Centre Sts. When officers arrived they spotted the gunman fleeing across to the east side of Bathurst with security guards on his heels and they joined in the...

Aug 03, 2006 - Workers at a Porterville jewelry store were trapped in a dangerous situation Wednesday, when an armed man walked into the store with a gun demanding money and jewelry. The incident happened around 6:30 p.m. at Crescent Jewelers in Central Porterville, and police were quick on the scene.