Wounded Man Charged in Foiled Bank Holdup

The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office filed felony robbery and assault charges Friday against a Los Angeles man who was wounded by security guards who foiled what police said was an attempted bank holdup in Van Nuys.

Quinton Dewey Worthams, 20, was charged with four counts of robbery, conspiracy and assault with a firearm in connection with the incident Tuesday morning in which another alleged bandit was shot and killed by two retired peace officers working at the bank as plainclothes security guards.

Worthams, who could be sentenced to 10 years in state prison if convicted, is being held on $245,000 bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 22 in Van Nuys Municipal Court.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Carol Fisch said the Los Angeles resident was one of five men who donned nylon stocking masks and gloves and headed for the door of the Great Western Saving Bank in the 6500 block of Van Nuys Boulevard just after 9 a.m. Tuesday.

Before the men made it in the door, they were confronted by the security guards in street clothes who opened fire, wounding Worthams four times in the buttocks, authorities said.

Ladon Jayson Reed, who police said was armed with a 9-millimeter semiautomatic handgun, was killed in a gun battle with the guards.

Three other suspects remained at large.