Gap-toothed man with gun robs Brighton bank branch

By adamg on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 9:55am

Police are swarming the area around the Sovereign Bank branch at 38 Leo Birmingham Parkway, looking for the man who held the branch up around 9:20 a.m.

He's described as black, medium height, with a gap between his front teeth. He was wearing a blue Sox cap, a bright red hoodie and black pants. He displayed a black handgun.

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Hey

By anon on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:06am.

Giveth me theth cashss!

Walter Schroeder

By anon on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:07am.

Isn't this the same location where Officer Schroeder was shot multiple times in the back and murdered back in 1970? I'm referring to the Katherine Powers and her 'radical' crew.

Liberal Terrorist

By anon on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:22am.

i remember her/them!

Two of them, actually

By adamg on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:31am.

Although even then, calling them "liberals" would be akin to calling McVeigh "conservative."

Kathy Ann Power and Susan Saxe, two Brandeis students, who'd hooked up with some career criminals enrolled in a Brandeis program aimed at, well, career criminals, basically, by way of the Brandeis Strike Information Center, which was coordinating anti-war efforts in the area.

The three men involved were captured not long after (the lead thug blew himself up in prison while trying to make a bomb). Power resurfaced 20 years later in Oregon, under an assumed name. Saxe was arrested in Philadelphia five years after the murder.

Then how come the people they

By anon on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 12:45pm.

Then how come the people they were involved with are now unrepentant professors at liberal universities?

Not the same location

By anon on Sat, 05/18/2013 - 5:34am.

The bank robbed in the 1970s was State Street Bank branch at Everett St. and Western Ave.