Three Gunned Down in Bank Robbery
Three people were shot to death in a robbery at a bank housed in a trailer along an interstate highway, the FBI said.
Investigators were looking for two people in a red sedan in connection with the robbery at Blue Ridge Savings Bank.
The victims were identified as bank employee Sylvia Holtzclaw and bank customers James E. Barnes, 62, and his wife, Margaret, 58.
Police cordoned off the bank, located in a trailer along Interstate 85 about halfway between Greenville and Spartanburg. Blue Ridge Savings Bank is based in Asheville, N.C.
The incident was the deadliest bank robbery since Sept. 26, when gunmen killed five people at a bank in Norfolk, Neb.
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