Update I 11:50 pm ET:
According to DeKalb County police, Roxanne Taylor, the woman dubbed the ‘Grandma bandit’, is actually a man. It isn’t clear if Taylor is the ‘Grandma bandit’ police have been looking for, or a cross-dresser who robbed pharmacies dressed as an elderly woman, or both.
A rush hour police chase on North Druid Hills Road and I-85 ended in the death of the woman dubbed the ‘Grandma bandit’, this morning according to the AJC.
The woman, identified in an arrest warrant as Roxanne Taylor, 58, of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Atlanta, was spotted in the drive-through at a Wendy’s on Piedmont Road by someone who noticed that she matched the description of the bandit who has robbed several metro area drugstores in the past two weeks.
When police arrived, Taylor fled the Wendy’s drive-through in a gold Jeep and a chase ensued up Interstate 85 northbound.
She was involved in a minor traffic accident after exiting at North Druid Hills Road, APD spokeswoman Mekka Parish told the AJC.
Police who were pursuing Taylor heard a single gunshot and returned fire, hitting her multiple times. Witnesses told the AJC that the driver side window of Taylor’s jeep was blown out. None of the officers were injured.
Taylor gained notoriety for her brazen daylight armed robberies of local area pharmacies. Witnesses described Taylor as between 60 and 70 years old, 5ft-6 and weighing between 120-130 lbs with puffy cheeks. She strode boldly into the pharmacies, pulled out a gun and demanded cash before fleeing in a gold or tan Jeep Liberty.
An arrest warrant taken out on Taylor yesterday charged her with robbing 3 pharmacies on May 12, 14 and 24. Taylor wore the same black University or Georgia baseball cap during each robbery.
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