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Bystanders mill about entrance moments after a store employee was killed and a Brink's messenger wounded and robbed of $50,000 yesterday in a Scarboro(...)
Bystanders mill about entrance moments after a store employee was killed and a Brink's messenger wounded and robbed of $50,000 yesterday in a Scarboro(...)

Bystanders mill about entrance moments after a store employee was killed and a Brink's messenger wounded and robbed of $50,000 yesterday in a Scarboro(...)

Date3/27/1978
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Original Toronto Star caption: Bystanders mill about entrance moments after a store employee was killed and a Brink's messenger wounded and robbed of $50;000 yesterday in a Scarborough shopping plaza. Metro Police Commission today posted a $10;000 reward for two men wanted in crime. We are terribly upset that an innocent person should end up as tragic victim; said Philip Givens; its chairman.
Country:Canada
City, town or township:Toronto
Province or state:Ontario
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0121876F
Wife of wounded Brink's messenger Evelyn Chambers, leaves Toronto East General Hospital with youngest son, Trevor (right), 13, after visiting husband,(...)
Wife of wounded Brink's messenger Evelyn Chambers, leaves Toronto East General Hospital with youngest son, Trevor (right), 13, after visiting husband,(...)
3/27/1978
Image shows a crime scene in between two police cars.
Spot where Student was Slain in Fairview Mall parking lot is roped off. Police question bystanders of possible clues, but apparently have no motive for the slaying of Michael Habbib, 15, who was shot twice in the face as he walked across the lot last night. A suspect was wounded seriously in a shoot-out with police a little later in the parking lot of Scarborough Town Centre mall, about 5 miles east.
5/6/1975
After Hold-up, and shooting that left manager of a Becker's milk store dead, bystanders gather outside to watch police investigate the death of Bill A(...)
After Hold-up, and shooting that left manager of a Becker's milk store dead, bystanders gather outside to watch police investigate the death of Bill A(...)
11/4/1971
Hoping to go home today, 48-year-old Robert Chambers, the Brink's guard hit on the head by a hammer during $50,000 robbery at Eglinton Square Monday, (...)
Hoping to go home today, 48-year-old Robert Chambers, the Brink's guard hit on the head by a hammer during $50,000 robbery at Eglinton Square Monday, (...)
3/28/1978
Daring holdup: An unidentified Brink's employee speaks with a detective after Yorkdale's second Brink's holdup in less than two years
Daring holdup: An unidentified Brink's employee speaks with a detective after Yorkdale's second Brink's holdup in less than two years
3/26/1991
Daylight heist: Workers at the Ontario Food Terminal in Etobicoke stare at a Brink's truck whose guard was robbed by two yesterday
Daylight heist: Workers at the Ontario Food Terminal in Etobicoke stare at a Brink's truck whose guard was robbed by two yesterday
1/22/1991
Getaway car: Metro police examine the getaway car left at Lawrence Square Plaza by two gunmen who robbed a Brink's guard yesterday
Getaway car: Metro police examine the getaway car left at Lawrence Square Plaza by two gunmen who robbed a Brink's guard yesterday
3/26/1991
Daylight robbery: A youth escaped with $32,000 in a daring holdup at a Scarborough liquor store yesterday after slugging a Brink's armored car guard and making-off with his satchel
Daylight robbery: A youth escaped with $32,000 in a daring holdup at a Scarborough liquor store yesterday after slugging a Brink's armored car guard and making-off with his satchel
2/19/1983
Honoring a colleague: Brinks guards salute as a casket containing the body of their slain colleague, Malcolm (Rick) Bridgman, 31, is carried into Whitby's Free Methodist Church yesterday
Honoring a colleague: Brinks guards salute as a casket containing the body of their slain colleague, Malcolm (Rick) Bridgman, 31, is carried into Whitby's Free Methodist Church yesterday
12/18/1991
Brink's trucks torched, Firefighters pour water on to one of four Brink's trucks set on fire in the company's east-end yard early yesterday
Brink's trucks torched, Firefighters pour water on to one of four Brink's trucks set on fire in the company's east-end yard early yesterday
12/4/1990
Image shows an interior of Birks store where an officer is questioning an employee.
Robbery Aftermath: An officer question a Birks employee yesterday after the Fairview Mall store was robbed
4/17/1991
Big scare for a little boy. Raphael Greenabaum, 2 1/2, of Hamilton is freed unharmed by firefighters and bystanders yesterday after his shirt got snag(...)
Big scare for a little boy. Raphael Greenabaum, 2 1/2, of Hamilton is freed unharmed by firefighters and bystanders yesterday after his shirt got snag(...)
9/6/1987