Shocking moment suspected bank robber with a small child in his arms flees after handing teller note demanding cash
A callous bank robber risked the life of a small child when he took her to raid a First Convenience branch in Texas.
Staff at the Walmart branch in Fort Worth were caught off guard when the middle-aged customer walked in and pushed the child into a shopping cart.
He passed a note to a teller demanding cash before picking up the child and running out with the money in his pocket.
Shocking security still released by the FBI shows the man leaving with the child in his arm.
“Putting an innocent baby in danger, what a complete sob!” wrote Lee Ann Rose on the Fort Worth Police Department’s Facebook page.
The suspect escapes from the Walmart on Anderson Boulevard in Fort Worth with the child in his arms after raiding the First Convenience store inside
The robber, who has not yet been identified, struck at the Anderson Boulevard location just after 2 p.m. on June 6.
There was little reason to be suspicious when he walked in wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses, a fisherman’s shirt and khaki cargo shorts.
The FBI said he is between 6 feet 6 inches tall and between 35 and 45 years old, but their description failed to impress some skeptical posters.
“That guy looks 50 and that’s probably a grandchild,” one wrote.
“Walmart has more cameras and monitors than employees and we have to finish this?” asked another.
“No video going out, no video walking in, no video of them walking off the property or getting into a vehicle. I bet the cart boys understand the heist better.”
A woman claiming to be on staff said she was completely fooled by the unlikely-looking robber. “I feel completely bad,” Titi Marie wrote on Facebook.
“I’m the security guard who works at this location and I was on shift when he robbed the bank,” she admitted. “Unfortunately, I walked right past him, not knowing he was the one robbing the bank. I hope someone finds him soon.’
“He did it so no guards or police would pull a gun on him,” Ty Clinton wrote.
Some Fort Worth residents were shocked at the danger he had put the child in.
The staff was taken aback when the middle-aged customer walked in with the child
“It just blew my mind,” Shirley Ingram told NBC DFW.
“I mean, I think about that poor baby, to be associated with something like that, but she’s too young to really know what’s going on.
“He probably thought that if someone was going to shoot, he would think of that little girl in his arms, so I think he used her as a shield a bit.”