NEW YORK – New York City police say a man who tried to rob a bank and was shot by a police officer had been released from prison a day earlier after serving a sentence for armed bank robbery.
Police say the man, identified as 69-year-old John Daniel Stolarz, was wielding a knife Thursday when he walked into a Chase Manhattan Bank branch next to entrances to Madison Square Garden and Pennsylvania Station.
New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne says Stolarz was shot once in the leg by a uniformed officer who happened to be in the area. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
Browne says Stolarz was released from a federal prison in New Jersey on Wednesday.
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