A top chef shot dead by police after robbing a bank wearing drag and cartoonish makeup reportedly had a secret heroin addiction . Cody Spafford , 26 , held up a Wells Fargo branch in Seattle , Washington , last year while wearing a fake nose , a wig , skirt and thick white makeup . Using a fake gun , he threatened tellers and made off with $ 90,000 stuffed in a suitcase before crashing his car about a mile away . Scroll down for video . Hold-up : Cody Spafford , a 26-year-old sous chef in a prestigious Seattle restaurant , held up a Wells Fargo branch in women 's clothes and thick makeup last year . 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 . His family in Utah , and co-workers at The Walrus and The Carpenter , an upscale oyster bar where he was sous chef , were stunned to learn that the man they knew was behind the April 2014 hold-up . Spafford was also set to take a job at high profile New York restaurant Buvette . But , according to a long profile of Spafford published in the Seattle Metropolitan magazine , the high-adrenaline bank robbery was not the only thing those close to him would never have suspected . Promising : Spafford was due to take up a head chef 's job in New York City - but had relapsed into heroin use , according to a new profile of him . He is pictured right with an oyster-shucking trophy . In the wake of the robbery , police investigators found syringes and a pipe inside his crashed Hyundai , which he flipped over in an affluent Seattle street before climbing on to a roof of a nearby garage , where police caught up with him . An earlier profile in The Stranger , an alternative weekly newspaper in Seattle , said his housemate Monica found evidence of drug use in his room - though she would n't expand on what 'drug paraphernalia ' was there . The Metropolitan also reported Spafford had been increasingly erratic in the weeks leading up to the robbery . The profile said he had started coming to work late , forget to place orders for new oysters , and would wear long-sleeved clothes , which would have hidden any signs of drug use . Crash scene : Spafford fled the bank in a Hyundai but crashed it after driving around a mile . Officers found a pipe and syringes in the vehicle . Shot dead : Spafford was shot seven times by a police officer . He was carrying a knife at the time , which is pictured above . An inquest also revealed that he had burned through almost $ 10,000 of savings in the weeks before he died - and was awaiting a prison sentence for a DUI charge from when he visited home in Utah . Even his parents reportedly had no idea he had relapsed into heroin use , which had plagued his youth . Spafford had reportedly spiraled into addiction as a high school senior back in Salt Lake City , but kicked the habit before moving to Seattle in 2010 for a new start . In Utah , the drug use led to seven arrests and months in jail - while he even robbed his own mother and forged checks in her name so he could get high , according to the Metropolitan . But after a rehabilitation program , and a promising career change in Seattle 's burgeoning oyster bar culture , the addictions of the past was seemingly behind him . The magazine hinted that 'the occasional joint ' of marijuana was part of the lifestyle at The Walrus and The Carpenter - but never a hint of hard drugs . Co-owner Jeremy Price told the Metropolitan : 'None of us had experience with someone who was addicted to heroin ' . Spafford was due to leave Seattle to take up a head chef 's post at a French restaurant in Salt Lake City - but never made the trip after his fatal run-in with police less than a month before his start date .
Cody Spafford , last April , held up a Wells Fargo in Seattle , Washington , 26 . Crashed his car in escape attempt and was shot seven times by police . New profile says he had relapsed into heroin addiction before the crime . Pipe and syringe found in car he flipped over during escape attempt . Had also been behaving erratically at work and burning through savings .