A man and woman were sentenced to decades in prison Monday for a bank robbery and high-speed getaway with shots fired at police and a baby in the back seat.
Jacob L. Smith, 19, and Danille Morris, 27, were sentenced for their guilty pleas in connection with the robbery of a bank in Stilwell, Kansas on March 9.
In his plea, Smith admitted that on March 9, 2016, he and co-defendant Gary Jordan brandished handguns when they entered the First National Bank at 7460 W. 199th Street in Stilwell. They held tellers at gunpoint before fleeing with cash stuffed in a backpack. Jordan took the wheel of the getaway car.
Smith pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm, He was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison. Morris pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery, one count of brandishing a firearm and one count of unlawfully possessing a firearm following a felony conviction. She was sentenced Monday to a 16 year federal prison term.
During the next 25 minutes, the robbers were pursued by the Kansas Highway Patrol, the Leawood Police Department and other law enforcement agencies as they fled across the Kansas/Missouri state line. During the chase, Smith fired at officers six times from the car. After the car overturned on a sharp turn, the defendants were arrested. Throughout the chase, Morris and her 19-month-old child were in the car.
Jordan was sentenced to 40 years in prison last December.