SEE IT: Armed robber who took woman hostage at Texas check-cashing store killed by police (WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO)
BYTOBIAS SALINGER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, February 4, 2016, 3:01 PM
An armed robber who took a woman hostage at a Dallas-area check-cashing store was fatally shot by police in a standoff captured on video.
Staff at Cash Store in Irving, Texas, set off an alarm around 1 p.m. Friday when Christopher Michael Dew, 29, tried to rob the business, accordingto the Irving Police Department.
The store on Esters Rd. near state highways 161 and 183 also got targeted earlier in January as police probe a string of burglaries at check-cashing stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
Cops said Dew grabbed a female employee and walked outside to the parking lot with her when they arrived at the scene. Two officers fired on him and killed him as he tried to force her into a car at gunpoint, according to police. The woman wasn’t injured in the standoff.
She could be seen hugging another woman afterward ina witness cellphone videoverified by police and posted on the raw and streaming video website LiveLeak.
“Oh my God! Oh God! Thank you, Jesus,” the woman said as she sank to the ground in the other woman’s embrace. The witness who shot the footage later walked over to capture the suspect’s bloodied body as he lay motionless between two cars.
Police said Dew, who was convicted of aggravated robbery in 2007, told the officers he would hurt the hostage if they approached him,The Dallas Morning News reported.
IRVING POLICE DEPARTMENT
Police later identifed the suspect they said tried to rob a check-cashing store and took a hostage as Christopher Michael Dew, 29. He's shown here in a 2006 booking photo.
The graphic footage shows him getting shot in the head after turning away from two officers ordering him to drop the gun while pointing their weapons at him. He was addressing other officers at the scene when he got shot.
“The two officers were here quickly, within minutes and were able to engage the suspect. They couldn’t let him leave with the hostage,” Irving police spokesman James McLellan told the Morning News. “By all appearances, this was the last resort for them.”
Irving police detectives, internal affairs officers and the public integrity unit of the Dallas County district attorney’s office are investigating the shooting.
Robbers also struck at Cash Store on Jan. 13 and roughly a dozen check-cashing stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since November, according to McLellan. Investigators are looking into whether Dew was involved in the other burglaries, McLellan told the Daily News.
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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An armed robber who took a woman hostage at a Dallas-area check-cashing store was fatally shot by police in a standoff captured on video.
Staff at Cash Store in Irving, Texas, set off an alarm around 1 p.m. Friday when Christopher Michael Dew, 29, tried to rob the business, accordingto the Irving Police Department.
The store on Esters Rd. near state highways 161 and 183 also got targeted earlier in January as police probe a string of burglaries at check-cashing stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
Cops said Dew grabbed a female employee and walked outside to the parking lot with her when they arrived at the scene. Two officers fired on him and killed him as he tried to force her into a car at gunpoint, according to police. The woman wasn’t injured in the standoff.
She could be seen hugging another woman afterward ina witness cellphone videoverified by police and posted on the raw and streaming video website LiveLeak.
“Oh my God! Oh God! Thank you, Jesus,” the woman said as she sank to the ground in the other woman’s embrace. The witness who shot the footage later walked over to capture the suspect’s bloodied body as he lay motionless between two cars.
Police said Dew, who was convicted of aggravated robbery in 2007, told the officers he would hurt the hostage if they approached him,The Dallas Morning News reported.
Police later identifed the suspect they said tried to rob a check-cashing store and took a hostage as Christopher Michael Dew, 29. He's shown here in a 2006 booking photo.
The graphic footage shows him getting shot in the head after turning away from two officers ordering him to drop the gun while pointing their weapons at him. He was addressing other officers at the scene when he got shot.
“The two officers were here quickly, within minutes and were able to engage the suspect. They couldn’t let him leave with the hostage,” Irving police spokesman James McLellan told the Morning News. “By all appearances, this was the last resort for them.”
Irving police detectives, internal affairs officers and the public integrity unit of the Dallas County district attorney’s office are investigating the shooting.
Robbers also struck at Cash Store on Jan. 13 and roughly a dozen check-cashing stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since November, according to McLellan. Investigators are looking into whether Dew was involved in the other burglaries, McLellan told the Daily News.
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