CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- There are now charges against one of the suspects in the killing of a bank security guard before a hold-up in Gary on Friday.
According to the Lake County, Indiana Sheriff’s Office, James A. King, 24, of Miami, Florida is charged with in the perpetration of a felony and with armed robbery.
Police said King and an accomplice ambushed the bank security guard, identified as 55-year-old Richard Castellana, outside the First Midwest Bank branch on Ridge Road, shooting him with a handgun and a long gun, before going into the bank and robbing it.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office said King was found in a wooded area near 43rd Avenue and Garfield Street in Gary, with a backpack containing a .40-caliber Glock Model 22 handgun and about $9,000 in cash.
The search is still on for a second suspect.
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