A callous bank robber risked the life of a small child when he took her on a raid at a Texas branch of First Convenience.
Staff at the Walmart branch in Fort Worth were caught off guard when the middle-aged customer strolled in pushing the child in a shopping cart.
He passed a note to a teller demanding cash before picking up the child and running out with the money in his pocket.
A shocking security still released by the FBI shows the man making his exit with the child on his arm.
‘Putting an innocent baby into harm’s way, what a complete sob!’ wrote Lee Ann Rose on the Fort Worth Police Department Facebook page.
The suspect makes his escape from the Walmart at Anderson Boulevard in Fort Worth with the child in his arms after his raid on the First Convenience branch inside
The robber, who has not been identified, struck just after 2pm on June 6, at the site on Anderson Boulevard.
There was little cause for suspicion when he wandered in wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses, a fishing shirt and khaki–colored cargo shorts.
The FBI said he is between 5ft 7ins and 5ft 9ins, and aged between 35 and 45, but their description did not impress some skeptical posters.
‘That dude looks 50 and that’s probably a grandchild,’ wrote one.
‘Walmart has more cameras and monitors than employees and this is what we have to go off?’ demanded another.
‘No videos exiting, no video walking in, no video showing them walking off property or getting into a vehicle. I bet the cart guys have a better grasp on the robbery.’
One woman who claims to be on the staff said she was completely fooled by the unlikely looking robber. ‘I feel entirely bad,’ Titi Marie wrote on Facebook.
‘I’m the security guard that works at this location and I was on shift when he robbed the bank,’ she admitted. ‘Unfortunately, I walked right pass him not knowing he was the one to rob the bank. I hope somebody find him soon.’
‘He did it so no guards or police would draw a weapon on him,’ wrote Ty Clinton.
Some Fort Worth residents were appalled at the danger he had placed the child in.
Staff were caught off guard when the middle-aged customer strolled in with the child
‘It just stunned me,’ Shirley Ingram told NBC DFW.
‘I mean to think of that poor little baby, to be connected with something like that, but she’s too young to really know what’s going on.
‘He probably thought if anyone was going to shoot, he would think of that little girl in his arms, so I think he was kind of using her as a shield.’