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The incident took place in Bristol around 11:20 a.m., Sunday, Oct. 2, at the bank located at 575 Farmington Ave.
According to Lt. Craig O'Connor of the Bristol Police, William Walker, age 31, of Hartford, held the victim at gunpoint and then fled in a dark-colored Honda.
Bristol Police located the vehicle attempting to leave and attempted to stop it before Walker took off taking police on a pursuit, O'Connor said.
The pursuit ended when Walker crashed in the area of North Street. He suffered minor injuries, O'Connor added.
He was taken into custody and charged with:
- Robbery
- Threatening
- Larceny
- Risk of injury
- Breach of peace
- Reckless driving
- Engaging in pursuit
- Disobeying an officer's signal
- DUI
- Operating an unregistered vehicle
Walker was held on a million-dollar bond and is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, Oct. 3.
Police did not say how much money was taken from the victim.
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