FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – Police searched for two armed suspects after three North Texas bank employees were shot Thursday morning but were expected to survive.
Fort Worth police tweeted "suspects still on the loose" following the gunfire around 9:30 a.m. Thursday inside Veritex Community Bank.
Officers initially responded to a robbery call but were trying to determine a motive for the shootings, according to police spokesman Sgt. Chris Britt.
"At least two suspects, we don’t have a description on them, went into the bank. This call came out as a robbery," Britt said. "They’re trying to determine if this actually was a robbery or what was going on."
#UPDATE on bank shooting – https://t.co/ytT5AFyI4C
— Fort Worth Police (@fortworthpd) July 19, 2018
Amid the search for suspects, police surrounded a Fort Worth house while awaiting a search warrant. Further details weren’t released.
MedStar Mobile Healthcare spokesman Matt Zavadsky said three women were shot and suffered serious injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening.
Two women were taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, while the third woman was taken to Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, according to Zavadsky. Names of the victims were not immediately released.
The bank is in a stand-alone building on the west side of Fort Worth, along a commercial boulevard that’s near the city’s well-known arts and cultural district.
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