CHARLOTTE ( QUEEN CITY NEWS ) — A Charlotte jury has convicted a man of robbing a Bank of America branch in 2021, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, Dena King, announced.
On Tuesday, Jan. 7, Kendall Charles Alexander, Sr., 60, of Baltimore, Maryland, was found guilty.
According to court documents, in Oct. 2021, Alexander and another man, Derrius Fleming, robbed the Bank of America branch on Iverson Way in South End. Both were reportedly armed with loaded semi-automatic rifles.
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Evidence suggests that Fleming approached an unarmed security guard at the corner of the bank and forced her inside at gunpoint. Alexander and Fleming then threatened to kill those inside if the employees and customers did not bend to their demands. The two ordered everyone to the ground and the danger to open the vault. Alexander then loaded money into a bag while Fleming kept an eye on the victims…