Update: bank robbery suspect dead
The FBI has confirmed that the man fatally shot by police on Borbeck Avenue on Monday afternoon was a suspect in a recent bank robbery.
Daniel Trinsey, 48, was suspected of robbing a TD bank near Northeast Philadelphia Airport. Police say Trinsey refused orders to put down his gun before officers opened fire.
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