article_snippet: Using a fake gun, his threatened tellers and made off with $90,000 stuffed in a suitcase before crashing his car about a mile away.
article_snippet: Scroll down for video .
article_snippet: Spafford, who abandoned his realistic-looking BB gun, but kept hold of an 8-inch knife, was shot seven times in a stand-off with police and died at the scene.
article_snippet: Crash scene: Spafford fled the bank in a Hyundai but crashed the bank after driving around a mile.
article_snippet: Shot dead: Spafford was shot seven times by a police officer.
article_snippet: a police officer was carrying a knife at the time, which is pictured above .
article_snippet: An inquest also revealed that a police officer had burned through almost $10,000 of savings in the weeks before a police officer died - and was awaiting a prison sentence for a DUI charge from when a police officer visited home in Utah.
article_snippet: In Utah, the drug use led to seven arrests and months in jail - while he even robbed he own mother and forged checks in his own mother name so he could get high, according to the Metropolitan.
highlights_snippet: Crashed his car in escape attempt and was shot seven times by police .
  