![[e-mail]](http://wwwcache.wral.com/presentation/v2/images/header/email-15x10.gif){kind=small}
Subscribe
![[e-mail]](http://wwwcache.wral.com/presentation/v1/images/icon_email-story.gif){kind=icon}
Get News Alerts to your Email & Cell Phone
KINSTON — March 4, 1996 - 1:20 p.m. EST
An employee holed up in the vault of Kinston's main Wachovia Bank office following an attempted robbery Monday morning has been freed. Police rescued the unidentified woman from the vault.
Authorities now are searching for a woman with a gun who also may be inside.
Police say the woman with the gun came into the bank at 8 a.m., about an hour before it was scheduled to open. The woman said she wanted to make an early withdrawal. What happened next is unclear. Police at the scene tell the Free Press of Kinston that the bank employee wound up in a vault -- where she talked by phone to police. Police say other bank employees have been accounted for. What they don't know is whether the woman with the gun is still in the bank.
City and county authorities and the Highway Patrol are surrounding the building, and a one-block area was cordoned off.
Watch WRAL-TV5's First News at 5 O'Clock for the latest developments
![[SLIDESHOW]](http://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/share/2012/02/09/10711513/4f348e7981bb5-51x75.jpg)
![[SLIDESHOW]](http://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/news/local/2012/02/12/10719414/thumbnail-100x75.jpg)
![[SLIDESHOW]](http://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/entertainment/out_and_about/2012/02/04/10712136/pics_agunn53833-100x75.jpg)
![[SLIDESHOW]](http://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/entertainment/2012/02/11/10719067/10719072-1329050037-100x75.jpg)
![[SLIDESHOW]](http://wwwcache.highschoolot.com/asset/content/2012/02/11/10717011/10717011-1328936455-100x75.jpg)
![[SLIDESHOW]](http://wwwcache.highschoolot.com/asset/content/2012/02/11/10717059/10717059-1328939591-100x75.jpg)
WRAL.com welcomes your comments on this story. All comments are moderated prior to publication based on our posting guidelines. Please review them prior to posting and if your message is not approved.
This story is closed for comments. Comments on WRAL.com news stories are accepted and moderated between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Friday.