have more to share later on. i want to bring in our senior crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz shimon, what more are you hearing there? we know that this happened before the bank was open around 8 30, which gives us a little bit of a clue of what may have been going on and who the suspect who is now dead is right. and by all accounts at this point based on what we re hearing from witnesses and law enforcement, this is quite a chaotic scene. police officers arriving and then within minutes that they were there they had encountered . according to police. they were fired upon. there were gunshots , and then we have seen indications where glass has been broken at the front. what appears to be the front of this bank has happened. as you said around 8 30 this morning before the bank was open for business. we re hearing from people inside the bank having to hide inside the vault the bank s vault to try and protect themselves and police. we believe this point encountered
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