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Norfolk bank murders

The Norfolk bank murders occurred on September 26, 2002, when three armed robbers killed five people in less than a minute during a botched bank robbery in Norfolk, Nebraska. The three robbers, Jose Sandoval, Jorge Galindo, and Erick Vela, were all convicted and sentenced to death for the crime. A fourth robber, Gabriel Rodriguez, who acted as the getaway driver, was sentenced to five life sentences.

Sandoval later pleaded guilty to murdering a further two people in the months before the bank murders, while a Nebraska State Trooper committed suicide a day later because of a mistake he had made involving one of the robbers prior to the botched robbery. Sandoval, Galindo, and Vela remain on Nebraska's death row awaiting execution. The robbery was the nation's deadliest bank robbery in more than a decade and the deadliest on record in Nebraska state history. Provided by Wikipedia