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FAMILY OF HOSTAGE KILLED IN STOCKTON BANK ROBBERY REACHES SETTLEMENT WITH CITY
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STOCKTON PAYING $5.75 MILLION SETTLEMENT TO FAMILY OF HOSTAGE KILLED DURING 2014
BANK ROBBERY

By Julia Sclafani
Updated July 25, 2018 2:17 PM

Misty Holt-Singh

The family of a woman killed while taken hostage in a shootout between bank
robbers and police has reached a $5.75 million settlement with the Stockton
Police Department.

The case stems from a July 16, 2014 robbery at a Bank of the West branch at 7810
Thornton Road in Stockton.



Misty Holt-Singh, a dental assistant well known in the community, had stopped at
the bank that afternoon to withdraw money from the ATM before a hair appointment
while her 12-year-old daughter waited in the car. On her way back to her car,
three men intercepted her and forced her into the bank, where the armed robbery
was about to take place, according to a detailed investigation and report by the
Police Foundation.

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Following the robbery, Holt-Singh and a bank employee were forced into a car.
and the bank employee was required to drive the vehicle before one of the gunmen
accidentally shot her in the leg, at which point she was pushed out of the car
and left on the pavement, the report states.

A police pursuit ensued, with the robbers firing more than 100 rounds through
the car’s back windshield prompting pursuing officers to respond with 600 rounds
aimed at the suspects. That reaction was deemed “unnecessary and excessive
gunfire”, a Police Foundation investigation found.

Two of the three suspects were killed in the fire fight as was Holt-Singh, who
was shot 10 times.



A statement released by Stockton Police on Wednesday said “on that day, our
department faced a situation unlike any seen before by a law enforcement agency.
The men and women of the Stockton Police Department responded with great
courage, with many putting their own safety secondary to protecting the
community.”

However, the Police Foundation described the police response as a failure of
imagination in a report titled “A Heist Gone Bad.”

The Police Foundation investigation acknowledged that the Bank of the West
robbery was a chaotic and complex incident that involved an armed robbery,
hostage taking, vehicle pursuit and an active shooter situation and that “any
one of these incidents by itself is difficult to resolve and requires a unique
response.”



However, it said the department was unprepared, noting “agencies should not wait
for an unusual or complex event to occur before conversations begin about
response planning.” It recommended that agencies “invest in training (for)
highly unusual, complex incidents that will not only sharpen response skills but
also creative problem solving.”



As part of the settlement the city will honor Holt-Singh by naming either a
street or park in her name, according to a press release issued by her family’s
lawyer, who filed the lawsuit against the department.

”This is a bittersweet day for our entire family,” said Paul Singh, Misty
Holt-Singh’s husband, in the press release. “I am grateful that the legal
process is over, but the loss of Misty has left a void in our hearts that will
never be filled.”



This story was originally published July 25, 2018 12:39 PM.


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