The Yuletide Bandit by Mike McIntyre

Author:Mike McIntyre
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: true crime; Manitoba
Publisher: Great Plains Publications
Published: 2016-06-22T22:46:59+00:00

Michael Syrnyk was drifting in and out of consciousness as a Pink Floyd tape played in the background. The last 12 hours were somewhat blurry, an intense mix of pain and pleasure the like he’d never experienced before. There were moments Syrnyk felt like he was about to die as he watched the pulsating blood ooze from his wound. But he knew a doctor or hospital was out of the question. There were other moments he felt more alive than ever before. He would see a light and feel safe. On some cryptic level, Syrnyk was enjoying himself. The wound was gruesome, a small hole visible through his ankle near the Achilles tendon, indicating a point of entry and a point of exit. Clearly, it was going to leave a permanent scar. Syrnyk would have to be even more careful in the future.

He was literally a marked man.

The burning had subsided, having been numbed somewhat by peroxide, rubbing alcohol and medical bandages. At first, Syrnyk had wrapped duct tape around his leg, a band-aid solution if there ever was one that would have to do until he had his supplies. Syrnyk vowed to never tell anyone about how he was nursed back to health – but his good friend, Marlene Griffin, had come through when he needed her most.

Syrnyk flashed back to the shooting, his mind retracing every single detail. He saw a clear image of the man who shot him, his face remarkably calm during Syrnyk’s ambush. He was so cool, thought Syrnyk. Cooler than me anyways. Syrnyk knew he would be laid up for a while, his ability to put pressure on his leg becoming more difficult by the hour. The money he’d grabbed from Polo Park would make the recovery easier. “This is going to lay me up for six months. But it’s not going to stop me,” he vowed to himself.

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The Polo Park mayhem certainly had the media’s attention now. Winnipeg radio and television stations had broken in with live coverage of the dramatic robbery. Both daily newspapers went all out in their morning editions, devoting several pages to stories and images that captured the magnitude of the brazen and shocking event. “Panicked shoppers screamed and dove for cover while a robber and an armoured car guard exchanged gunfire at Polo Park Shopping Centre shortly after noon yesterday,” the front-page Winnipeg Free Press story began. “The robber, who police link to several Christmas-time armoured car heists in Winnipeg since 1998, left a trail of blood when he escaped with a bag of cash. Miraculously, nobody else in the bustling mall was hurt.” “I’m still shaking,” said an elderly woman who was in the bank at the time of the heist. I saw him through the window shooting and running and there was all this broken glass. He left blood all over the floor. It was very scary,” the story continued. “I saw this guy with a gun and I heard shots,” said Henry, who was eating

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