John A. Flythe

How they died

Suicide

John A. Flythe, 49, entered the Arvest Bank wielding a black automatic pistol, police said. He threw a black case onto the counter and told the teller, "I want it all." After receiving an undisclosed amount of money, Flythe fled in a white pickup, leading police on a 10-minute chase. He stopped in the parking lot of the Pickles Gap Baptist Church, where he fatally shot himself in the chest.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that John A. Flythe, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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