MIAMI (AP) ‐ A Florida bank robbery suspect led police on a wild chase Friday as he carjacked two vehicles at gunpoint, leaped into the Miami River and finally died in a hail of bullets after vowing not to be arrested easily, authorities said.It began around 7 a.m. when FBI agents and Miami-Dade police officers went to the man’s home north of the city to serve a warrant linked to the Sept. 29 robbery of a Wells Fargo bank branch, Justin Fleck, the FBI acting assistant special agent in charge, said at a news conference.
The suspect, whose name wasn’t immediately released, instead grabbed a handgun and fled ‐ initially on foot, and then in two carjacked vehicles.
The first car was a BMW, authorities said. With officers in pursuit, the man drove erratically through city streets. He then ditched the BMW for a Mazda sports utility vehicle, which he carjacked by waving a gun in the driver’s face.
That driver, Minerva Castellano, told local news outlets she was on her way to work at the Veterans Administration Hospital when the man ran up to her window and told her to get out.