Police: Bank robber killed after refusing surrender, reaching in bag

A bank robbery suspect whom police killed on Wednesday had refused to surrender andwas reaching into a bag containing box cutters when he was shot by a Fairfax County officer, according to details released Thursday by the Police Department.

Edward R. Agurs Jr., 39, of Woodbridge, robbed a Wachovia bank at 7706 Richmond Highway that morning by passing the teller a note announcing a robbery, police say. After fleeing the bank, Agurs attacked an officer who tried to stop him and fled into an apartment building on Fordson Road, according to Fairfax County Police spokesman Lt. Richard Perez.