2002 Norfolk bank murders

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On September 26, 2002, three armed robbers killed five people in less than a minute during a botched bank robbery in Norfolk, Nebraska, United States. The three robbers, Jose Sandoval, Jorge Galindo, and Erick Vela, were all convicted and sentenced to death for the crime. A fourth robber, Gabriel Rodriguez, who acted as the getaway driver, was sentenced to five life sentences. Sandoval later pleaded guilty to murdering a further two people in the months before the bank murders, while a Nebraska State Trooper committed suicide a day later because of a mistake he had made involving one of the robbers prior to the botched robbery. Sandoval, Galindo, and Vela remain on Nebraska's death row awaiting execution. The robbery was the nation's deadliest bank robbery in more than a decade and the deadliest in Nebraska state history.

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