Crime & Safety

2 More Indicted In Gary Bank Robbery That Killed Tinley Park Guard

According to federal prosecutors, 2 of the 4 people who acted as co-conspirators in the June robbery have been arrested.

TINLEY PARK, IL — Two more people have been indicted in the bank robbery that ended in the killing of a Tinley Park security guard last year, court documents show.

According to officials, 34-year-old Kenyon Hawkins and 27-year-old Briana White were also charged with robbery in connection with the June 11 incident at First Midwest Bank in Indiana.

A 55-year-old Tinley Park man, Richard Castellana, was working at the bank branch as a security guard when James King, a Florida man previously arrested in connection to the robbery, told police he and three others robbed the bank.

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Hailey Gist-Holden was also indicted in the incident. King and Gist-Holden played football on the Illini Panthers together. King said Gist-Holden was the one responsible for killing Castellana while he went inside the bank to steal almost $10,000 from the teller stand.

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Hawkins and White co-conspired in the robbery and drove King and Gist-Holden to the bank, King stated in a plea agreement last year.

Gist-Holden previously pleaded not guilty and is acting as his own attorney in the case.

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