Police say two bank robbery suspects, including one dressed in a green leprechaun costume, have been shot dead after a St Patrick's Day chase and shootout with police in Tennessee.
Sergeant Bill Storment said the First State Bank in the Nashville suburb of Gallatin was held up by a costumed man at 12.28pm local time on Wednesday, and the suspects fired at police during a car chase.
A news release said the two ran into a field and died when they exchanged fire with officers.
Sharon Riehemann, manager of another bank next door, told The Associated Press she saw a man in a green top hat, vest and shorts and a fake beard run away from First State Bank with a blue bag in his hands.
She said he had just been in her bank but left without speaking.
The FBI has linked one of the dead men, 20-year-old David Christopher Cotton, to a robbery in December by a man in a Santa suit.
The other man killed was 20-year-old Western Kentucky University student Jonathan Ryan Skinner.
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