Prologue

Something wasn’t right about the Honda. It was an Accord, white with tinted windows and a paper license plate. A Philly cop noticed late Friday morning that it appeared to be casing a Brinks truck at City Line Avenue and Monument Road, next to a Target and a PNC Bank.

And then the Accord sped off, igniting a cat-and-mouse chase that spilled from the city into Lower Merion Township. Police radios hissed with increasingly urgent updates. Three or four people were thought to be inside the Accord.

“Use caution,” a dispatcher warned. “They are armed with a long gun and handguns, per the FBI.”

Local schools locked down. Residents sheltered in place.

“They’ve done multiple armored truck robberies within the city and the suburbs in the last two months,” reported one officer.

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