A Minnesota man looted a bank and held his employees hostage for hours, who apparently “wanted to go viral”, officials said.
The 35-year-old man, who was held hostage in an eight-hour standoff of eight people in St. Clouds, said he wanted to have a “big demonstration” with police.
Ray Rico McNary was charged with robbery, second-degree assault and multiple counts of kidnapping after an incident at the Wells Fargo Bank. According to KIMT3 News.
According to a criminal complaint, McKenry called for fraud on his account, which was fraud on that account – and was further aggravated when the account could not be located.
He forced the bank manager to take a bag of money from the vault, then threw some cash on the floor and, according to the station, started harming the victim’s cellphones by grabbing them and putting them in water or slamming them around.
According to the complaint McNairy threatened to use the bank manager as a shield, and they would “die together”.
He then told his hostages and law enforcement that his intention was to kill those people, “to kill themselves, or to put the law in a position that they kill them,” the complaint stated.
McNeary was apparently unarmed during the incident.
St. Cloud Police Chief Blair Anderson said the situation could end as well as possibly ending when four hostages were released or survived, and a fifth hostage “made a run for the door” in exactly the same way. As St. Cloud police and the FBI arrested McNee without incident. According to the police, all the mortgages were bank employees.
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