Look Who it Was Random video

Gun Pulled Inside Bank, Suspect Cuffed Barely Clothed

1,675 views · Published 6 August 2012 · 2:27 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2012 · News & Politics

Watch on YouTube

by Karen Zatkulak  A gun, a bank, and a suspect stripping as she runs from cops - that was the scene Thursday afternoon in downtown Chattanooga.  Police tell us it all stemmed from a domestic dispute with one of the bank's employees...     It was just before one o-clock when police say Zoya Zakwan walked into the Capitol Mark Bank.  They say she pulled out a gun, then took off down Broad Street.  Witnesses tell us she was taking off her clothes as she ran.Laura Jane Walker tells us, "I heard some passerbys saying I think she was taking her clothes off, not what you would expect to see on broad street on a thursday."That's how the unusual scene on Broad Street ended Thursday afternoon, with Zoya Zakwan, handcuffed and barely clothed. Walker tells us, "I couldn't tell if she had pants on or not, she was barefoot, but I don't know if the pants were actually on."Walker was walking back from lunch when she saw Zakwan, and the pile of clothes a few feet away.  But what police say happened just a few moments earlier was even more concerning.  They say Zakwan walked in to the Capital Mark Bank, and pulled a gun on an employee inside.  Then, witnesses say she took off down Broad Street, while taking off her clothes.  Mindy Gonzales works across the street and saw Zakwan get cuffed.  "There was like 7 police cars outside and a lady was arrested over here wearing not many clothes."Suspicions then began circling the suspect's motives.  Gonzales says, "We were told she had run into the bank possibly stoned with a gun."Walker says, "People came back with different stories, it was a robbery, she was there to get vengence and it was some sort of domestic case."We spoke by phone with the mother of the woman targeted in the bank.  She said Zakwan is now married to her daughter's ex-husband, and says it was a dangerous attack.Zakwan is now charged with two counts of aggravated assault and unlawful possession of a weapon.  Capital Mark Bank had no comment on the incident, but said they were just glad no one was hurt.

More from this channel