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FBI releases names of suspects wanted in East Chicago bank robbery

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By ABC7
Thursday, April 3, 2014
March 31, 2014 (EAST CHICAGO, Ind.) p> Jeremiah Ellis and Ashley Patterson allegedly robbed the First Merchants Bank in East Chicago, Indiana last Saturday.

Investigators say Patterson held customers and a security guard at gunpoint, while Ellis gathered the cash. Then he allegedly shot at police as they fled the scene.

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