Investigation continues into heist at Cape Girardeau Bank of Missouri

Local and federal authorities continue to investigate a bank robbery that occurred Monday afternoon at the Bank of Missouri of 372 S. Kingshighway, and a suspect hasn't yet been arrested.

Cape Girardeau police received a call at 12:08 p.m., that a male suspect entered the bank, approached an available teller, and slipped a note across the desk, according to Cpl. Jason Selzer, spokesman for the police department.

The note demanded money and the suspect, who displayed a pistol, escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash, Selzer said.

CHUCK WU ~ cwu@semissourian.com The surveillance photo of the bank robber that was released by the police department.

No one one inside the bank recalled seeing a car pull out of the parking lot, but police used canine Bolo to track a potential trail, and it stopped several hundred feet south of the bank property.

It is unknown at this time whether the suspect is still on foot.

Cape Girardeau evidence technicians remained at the scene this afternoon checking surfaces inside the bank for fingerprints.

A surveillance video captured a photo of the alleged robbery suspect, a man described as over six feet tall, with light colored — possibly red — hair, a beard and wearing a baseball cap.

The suspect is thought to have fled in a southeast direction.

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