An armed man robbed a bank in downtown Fort Worth Thursday afternoon and triggered a police manhunt.[[291721421,L]]
A man walked into the Frost Bank on the ground floor of the 40-story 777 Main Building, at Main and 7th streets, just after 1 p.m., pulled out a gun and demanded cash from a teller, police were told.
The teller handed over the cash, and the man ordered all the tellers down the hall and into a bathroom.
The man then left the building, according to surveillance video obtained by Fort Worth police.
Fort Worth Police DepartmentNo injuries were reported.
The holdup alarm was triggered just after the robbery. Police responding to the alarm call restricted access to the building while searching for the man, until it was confirmed on video he had left the bank.
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SWAT officers searched part of the building and several neighboring buildings that are connected by sky-bridges.
"It presents a whole different sort of problems, but fortunately we have an exceptionally good tactical team our SWAT people and our ZT (zero tolerance) teams, and they were able to search it and be comfortable in the fact that the suspect was not inside any longer," said Sgt. Steve Enright, Fort Worth police public information officer.
Fort Worth police officers in SWAT uniforms surrounded the building until about 2:15 p.m., when they cleared the scene. Traffic on surrounding streets was not impacted by the police activity.
Office workers who were out at lunch had to wait on the street for the building to be cleared. Employees inside the office building were informed via email instructions from supervisors and blue flashing lights at elevators warning them that something had happened in the bank.
"Everybody could look out their window and see the police circling, lots of police cars, SWAT team, we had people who had gone to lunch and didn't get back in time and they were stuck out here," said Amber Lee, an office worker.
Lee said it was a bit unnerving at times, but that the search was understandable.
"To see the magnitude of the police force to come out and find him, but you know it's a big building, lots of places to look," Lee said. "They circled the building and made sure that no door or whatever was left uncovered."
The search for the man in the photo is ongoing. If you know who he is, you're asked to contact the Fort Worth Police Department.
