Crime & Safety

Updated: Deptford Bank Job Suspect Fatally Shot By Police in Stratford

Dwayne Tribbett allegedly tried to rob a check-cashing agency, and was shot in a confrontation with police in Stratford.

A Woodbury man who told police he wouldn't be taken alive was shot and killed in a standoff in Stratford after an attempted robbery Monday morning.

Dwayne Tribbett, 31, who was also wanted for a bank robbery in Deptford and a jewelry heist in Pennsauken, allegedly attempted to rob a check cashing agency near the Lindenwold PATCO station, which led to the standoff.

Tribbett and an accomplice, Dorelle Wallace, 21, of Stratford, approached an employee of Community Check Cashing around 9 a.m., police said, put a gun to her head and attempted to force her to open the store's safe.

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When she delayed opening the safe, the two men fled in a silver Jeep, which had been reported stolen in Camden, and were spotted shortly after by a Lindenwold police officer, who pursued them to the Bishop Court Apartments, just off the White Horse Pike in Stratford.

There, police said Tribbett smashed his way into an empty apartment, then repeatedly brandished his gun at police during the brief standoff. When he refused to drop the gun, as ordered by police, he was shot in the chest by a Lindenwold police officer.

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He was flown to Cooper University Hospital after the shooting, and died there at 11:40 a.m.

Tribbett's alleged accomplice, Wallace, ran to the Lindenwold PATCO station, where he was caught a brief time later. Tribbett and Wallace were both wanted in connection with a robbery at Joe the Jeweler in Pennsauken on June 15, and Tribbett was , but was still on the lam at the time.

Wallace faces a slew of charges from the two incidents. In the Stratford attempted robbery, he was charged with armed robbery, unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, possession of a weapon by an individual not allowed to possess a weapon, eluding police and possession of a stolen vehicle.

In the Joe the Jeweler heist, Wallace is charged with robbery, burglary, kidnapping and weapons charges. He's being held on $440,000 bail in Camden County Jail.

Numerous law enforcement agencies descended on the area near the attempted robbery, including Gloucester Township's Special Response Team and crisis negotiators, to assist Stratford police, along with officers from Pine Hill, Hi-Nella, Gibbsboro, Waterford, Laurel Springs, Somerdale and Voorhees, Clementon, Berlin Borough and Berlin Township.

As with any police-involved shooting, the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said a review will take place to ensure proper police procedures were followed.


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