Bank Robber Gets Life Sentence For Using Hostage As Shield

By SCOTT SMITH, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle
Tue, 02/21/2017 - 3:13pm

(AP) — A California man who used a woman he took hostage as a human shield from police gunfire after a deadly bank robbery and car chase was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison in an emotional hearing. In the midday heist, the three armed men stormed into a Bank of the West branch, then fled with their three hostages in an SUV owned by one of the bank employees. In the shootout, officers fired roughly 600 bullets into the vehicle — 10 striking Holt-Singh as Ramos held her as a human shield, police have said. The police department commissioned a review, finding that the shots the officers fired at the end of the pursuit were excessive and unnecessary.

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