‘Standing there with an assault rifle’: Hostage describes scene of B.C. bank robbery

Saanich on Tuesday.She had never been to that particular branch before. 6 officers injured in shooting at Saanich, B.C. bank, 2 suspects killed Two minutes after she sat down, the bank was being robbed.Fryer said they first heard an explosion.The bank manager stood up and she said she looked over and saw that the tellers were all crouching down.“(The bank manager) said so calmly, ‘we’re being robbed,'” Fryer said. “And he got a key, and as he got the key, I said, ‘should I get down?’ and he said, ‘just a sec.’ I was going to go by my chair, I was going to crouch by my chair and I look up and in the doorway, there’s a guy standing there with an assault rifle.”Fryer said the man was wearing a balaclava, a vest, and some guards on his legs and he was just standing there quietly.“The manager held the key out and (the man) said, ‘vault?’ and the manager tried to give him the key to go,” Fryer added, but the man motioned for the manager to lead him to the vault.She said she didn’t hear any alarms but she could hear another voice at least and that’s when she called 911.“It was very, very quiet,” she said. “It wasn’t frenetic, crazy, what you imagine it would have been.”Fryer was one of 22 people who ended up being held hostage in the bank Tuesday morning when the suspects burst in.She said she saw three suspects in total.

Saanich police confirmed Wednesday they are still looking into the possibility of a third suspect. Two were shot and killed at the scene.Fryer told Global News she could see one of the suspects pacing up and down during the robbery.“Like a country walk back and forth, with an assault rifle.” ‘We huddled under the bush’: Witness describes seeing gunfire outside Saanich B.C.