The man who robbed a bank in Watauga and shot a North Richland Hills officer 19 years ago was finally identified based on a match in a genetic DNA database. Police said he killed himself as officers were closing in.
The man who robbed a bank in Watauga and shot a North Richland Hills officer 19 years ago has finally been identified, police said.
North Richland Hills police said in 2015, Det. Erik Whitlock was assigned to the case and was able to link the suspect to seven other bank robberies between 1998 and 2003. And in 2020, police released images from a camera inside the bank, as well as forensic renderings of what the suspect may have looked like in 2003.Mark Alan Long of Oklahoma was identified as the suspect based on shared DNA.
Officers who searched Long’s home found a vehicle that matched the description of the one used in the Watauga bank robbery and a revolver that matched the one used to shoot Officer Garner.
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