WYOMING, Mi(WZZM) - One of the men shot and killed after holding up a Ravenna Bank and killing a police officer Thursday may be an ex-convict who served time for robbing a bank in 1997.
36 year old Kristopher Cheyne was sentenced to more than a dozen years in prison for using a sawed off shotgun to rob a bank in 1997.
Detectives searched Cheyne's home on 29th Street in Wyoming Thursday after 2 men robbed the ChoiceOne branch in Ravenna. The 2 robbers were shot dead by police after they ran over and killed Walker policeman Trevor Slot.
During the search in Wyoming neighbors say police told them Cheyne's was one of the dead robbers.
"I asked one of the officers, 'What in the world is going on, or can't you say?'," recalls 29th Street resident Martin Slagter. "He says, 'Well, sure. I don't know if both of those fellas that got shot lived there but, for sure, one of them did,'"
Neighbors say Kristopher Cheyne and his family moved to 29th Street about 2 years ago. That's about the same time Cheyne was released from federal probation for bank robbery.
"Family man," recalls neighbor Greg Gilbert. "I always saw him with his wife and kid. They always waved."
If Cheyne is one of the robbers, it's not known who was with him at the bank or who was driving when their getaway vehicle ran over the police officer.
But neighbors say another man was often at the Wyoming house.
"Once in awhile there would be a car and a woman would get out," says Slagter. "But, really, I thought it was just 2 men living there."