Good point. It would seem if he were running away we'd hear that he drained the account or took out a large sum of money. But when you mention it, "passing through" makes it sound like he didn't stop and draw out any money.
Thanks Steve for the kind words, I appreciate it and always look forward to your posts as well! So regarding the following two comments you made, this is what I had originally thought which seemed much more plausible until I reviewed the layout of the bank itself. Most of my banks have the layout like you were thinking which is where the first few lanes and where the teller window is are closest to the building and the outer lane is the ATM drive thru. However, I posted images showing the exact opposite which I was quite surprised by. The ATM is actually inches before the teller window and is attached to the actual bank building itself with multiple camera views including a 360 camera right before the ATM that would capture not only the activity at the ATM but would produce pretty upclose footage of the car itself. And then you also have the fact that most ATMs have a camera in them, the teller window is right there and you would have to drive past that to exit as well as another 360 view camera in front of that lane capturing the front of the car.
So after viewing that I would find it almost impossible for them not to have ample footage of exactly what happened at the ATM. The camera from right when you would pull in also would hoover over the back of the car and could quite possibly pick up if there were more than one person in the car and know that LE has reviewed this footage and said they did not notice any foul play makes me think they are correct or at least at that time there didnt seem to be any as they would have plenty of angles to go off of. I also think that someone would be terribly ballsy to basically walk up in front of the teller window with that many obvious cameras and attempt to get in at that point and demand money.
However, if the ATM was on that outer line you suspected and I originally had then I would have thought that made more sense and also would point to the phone being in the bushes on the side of the outer lane but after some further research, I find this scenario quite hard to wrap my head around of something happening at that actual bank right there in broad daylight given that particular bank's layout.
The first two photos below are from the Capital One off Voss that TY was at that show the ATM attached to the bank and the third one is of the Capital One off of Westheimer with the ATMs furthest away which is exactly what you were probably picturing as was I and if that was the layout of the one TY was at then I would agree with that theory being a lot more likely.
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Ahh very good sleuthing going back to a video that has the reporter outside the bank @Steve McQueen!That was a good call bc you are correct that the Google Maps I have been going off of does not have the ATM on the outer lane that we and most people probably suspected would be where it was located. I am guessing that with COVID and having less workers at the bank possibly they added that ATM to the outer lane which definitely makes the scenarios change for me as it being right under all the cameras and attached to the back in front of the teller window made it hard for me to think something occurred right there and also made the statement of “passing ATM” seem off as you would have to go out of your way to go in that inner lane.
I wonder if there's a place in the area where cars have been routinely dumped. If he went off the road, had some kind of accident, where might that have happened? Like everyone else, I keep coming back to the phone and why it's there. If the phone wasn't there I'd be 99% sure he took off. But because the phone was found, and he never got out of the car (or at least that wasn't stated anywhere) it would seem he threw the phone out himself. That was done so he could be tracked or it was done so he couldn't be tracked. And because of his stable history, I believe he threw the phone out to leave a trace of where he was. He's smart, he would know there would be a video of him at the bank.
If you watch the video in Kelsie's post these ATM robberies are happening at drive up ATMs not located near the teller window. I'd assumed they occurred at walk up ATMs.
Agreed. I don’t think his phone fell off the atm or flew off of his car and landed in bushes, assuming most ATMs don’t have bushes right in front of them.
There’s been so much of that in cities around the country lately. I was in a major news website yesterday and it was a top main headline. Scary stuff.
