Lenox Bank Robbery

(Lenox) The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office responded to a bank robbery in Lenox on Monday afternoon.

The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office says the call went out at approximately 1:30 p.m. at the Iowa State Savings Bank in Lenox, Iowa. The reporting party indicated a man entered the bank demanding money and then fled the scene on a motorcycle. Law enforcement pursued the man into Adams County, crashed in a farm field, and fled on foot.

Several law enforcement agencies, including the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office, Adams County Sheriff’s Office, Adair County Sheriff’s Office, Cass County Sheriff’s Office, and the Iowa State Patrol, converged on the area and attempted to locate the subject.

As law enforcement narrowed in on the subject’s location, the male fired one round, causing a fatal self-inflicted wound. The body will be transported to the Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner’s Office, where a forensic autopsy will be performed later this week.

The subject’s name is not being released, and no additional information is available.