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Jerry Lynn Young
American criminal and bank robber From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jerry Lynn Young (October 1942 – December 2015) was an American criminal and bank robber, appearing on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in 1967.[1]
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Born in Alabama, Young joined the U.S. Marine Corps in February 1961; however, finding military training and discipline too difficult, he eventually received a dishonorable discharge in March 1962 following his conviction for robbing $4,359 from a bank in Richlands, North Carolina. He also suffered from psoriasis and needed frequent treatments.[2]
Sentenced to six years' imprisonment, Young earned parole in August 1963, remaining on probation until March 1, 1967. The following day, armed with a shotgun, Young raided a bank in Asheville, North Carolina of $13,671 and, after shooting at a bank employee attempting to pursue Young, escaped in a stolen car.[3]
Young and his accomplice William Webb robbed a Graysville, Alabama bank of $93,952 making it the largest bank robbery in the state at that time.[4][5]
After being identified by photographs in a bank robbery in Olive Branch, Mississippi of $14,919 on April 14, Young was declared a federal fugitive and officially added as the 248th fugitive to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list on May 12, 1967.[4]
After only a month on the run, Young was arrested with accomplice Webb by FBI agents as they left their motel room in Akron, Ohio on June 15.[6] Despite Young's boast that he "would never be taken alive", Young peacefully surrendered to federal agents and was eventually convicted on a number of federal charges before returning to prison.
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