Maurice Chester Dodd

Suicide

Maurice Chester Dodd, a former lieutenant with the Atlanta Police Department, reportedly committed suicide after a bank robbery and police chase. According to police, an officer was in a BMO Harris Bank branch in Matteson at about 11 a.m. and saw Dodd carrying a wad of cash. A bank teller, who had fallen to the ground and began hyperventilating, told the officer that Dodd had robbed the bank, police said. Dodd fled in a 2003 Nissan, leading police on a high-speed chase before exiting onto Vollmer Road. As he passed Cicero Avenue, an officer reportedly saw Dodd put a handgun to the right side of his head, then heard a shot. Dodd's car veered into a field, flipped over and hit a utility pole. Dodd died at the scene.