The hostage was hit with ten police bullets as her kidnapper used her as a human shield.
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| Misty Holt-Singh (KCRA) |
The family of a California bank teller who was killed after three robbers took her hostage has questioned whether police used unreasonable force during a pursuit through city streets.
Misty Holt-Singh, a 41-year-old mother of two, was kidnapped with two other people during the July 16 robbery of a Bank of the West branch in Stockton.
The robbery suspects led police on a high-speed chase for 55 miles around the city, which was hit hard by the financial crisis, and exchanged gunfire with officers.
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An attorney for Holt-Singh’s family said police protocols call for discriminate gunfire during hostage situations – but he said that’s not how police responded, reported KCRA-TV.
“Chief Jones confirmed 33 officers fired 600 bullets with full knowledge of a hostage inside the vehicle,” said attorney Greg Bentley. “That is excessive and unreasonable force.”
Two suspects were killed during the furious gun battle, but a third suspect, 19-year-old Jaime Ramos, was not wounded and has been charged with murder and kidnapping.
Investigators said Ramos apparently used Holt-Singh as a human shield, and ballistics tests later found she had been shot 10 times by police bullets.
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