More than a day after facing the barrel of a shotgun that a man used to kill three people at a bank, a guard was found cowering in the building's basement.
Virene Brown, 38, was found about 2 p.m. Wednesday by a maintenance worker in the boiler room of the Comerica bank. On Tuesday, Allen Griffin Jr. fatally shot two bank employees, then killed a customer outside.Police killed Griffin outside the bank.
Brown was listed in good condition at St. John Hospital Thursday, nursing supervisor Kathy Przepiorka said.
"She's coherent, a little bit dehydrated, and she's glad to be alive," Police Chief Isaiah McKinnon told The Detroit News. "She was extremely well-concealed - and traumatized."
Alma Brown, 42, said all her sister could remember of Tuesday's ordeal was that the gunman put a shotgun to her head.
"The Lord was so good. He gave her strength," Alma Brown said.
McKinnon said Griffin pointed the shotgun at bank guard Brown, who was unarmed, and said he was going to kill her. But somehow he became distracted, and she fled into the basement before anyone in the bank was shot.