EAST ST. LOUIS. Ill. (AP) — A 23-year-old St. Louis man has pleaded guilty to a federal bank robbery charge in connection with a 2021 holdup in East St. Louis in which a security guard was shot dead, prosecutors said Thursday.
Jaylan D. Quinn entered the plea Wednesday in federal court, prosecutors said.
Wearing masks, Quinn and 21-year-old Andrew R. Brinkley of St. Louis entered First Bank in East St. Louis on Aug. 27, 2021, and gave a teller a note saying they had a bomb.
After receiving money, the two men were running toward the door when 56-year-old guard Ted Horn of St. Libory tried to intercept them, but Quinn drew a semi-automatic handgun and shot Horn in the head. The pair fled in a car and Horn was pronounced dead at the scene.
Bank surveillance video quickly led to the identification of Brinkley as a suspect and the FBI arrested Brinkley and Quinn the next day at Brinkley’s home in St. Louis. Agents recovered a loaded 9mm handgun, two marked bills from the robbery, and clothing matching what the robbers wore, prosecutors said.
Brinkley earlier pleaded guilty to bank robbery. He’s scheduled to appear in court next Wednesday.
