Burqa Bandit in Philly?

Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:50:22 pm PDT

We may have another burqa bandit case in Philadelphia, and this time a policeman has been murdered: Officer Shot, Killed After Bank Robbery.

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police said a veteran police officer was shot and killed in the Port Richmond section of the city on Saturday. Steven Liczbinski, 40, a 12-year veteran who had just been promoted to sergeant, was shot by at least two men shortly before 11:30 a.m. Saturday, authorities said.

He was responding to a robbery at a Bank of America branch inside the ShopRite at Castor and Aramingo. The men fled, and Liczbinski confronted them at Almond and Schiller streets about 15 minutes later. was shot multiple times with a high-powered rifle, police said. ....

Police originally described a man and a woman in Muslim-type garb and a man wearing a white hospital mask. The masked man had shoulder-length dreadlocks, but Officer Tanya Little said that could be wig. Ramsey said one of those suspects had been killed, but he did not know which one.