Fred Anderson was sentenced to death by the State of Florida for the murder of a bank teller during a robbery
According to court documents Fred Anderson decided to rob Mount Dora USB and in the process would shoot and kill bank teller Heather Young
Fred Anderson would shoot another woman who thankfully survived her injuries however would die 16 years later due to being shot
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Prosecutors will not file murder charges against a death row inmate after a second teller died 16 years from being shot during a 1999 bank robbery.
Marishia Scott had survived the shooting to testify from a wheelchair in 2001 against defendant Fred Anderson in the robbery of United Southern Bank in Mount Dora that left her co-worker Heather Young dead at the scene.
The jury convicted Anderson of first-degree murder in 2001 in Young’s murder and sentenced him to death.
However, Scott died from her injuries at 41 years old in 2015, which led prosecutors to consider filing murder charges in her death.
But Assistant State Attorney Rich Buxman said Thursday the family and law enforcement were against going through another murder trial because Anderson was “so far along” in the Young case and they didn’t want anything to slow it down.
“They didn’t want anything to interfere with it,” said Buxman, who replaced the now retired prosecutor in the case.
No execution date has been set for the 48-year-old Anderson.
Buxman added if something happens to take Anderson off death row in Young’s murder, there is no statute of limitations to keep them from filing murder charges in the Scott murder.
“Obviously we can charge him anytime,” Buxman said.
Scott’s lawyer couldn’t be reached for comment Thursday.
According to officials, Anderson had pretended to be a college student doing a research paper on banking in order to scout the bank’s security system on March 19, 1999. He had noticed the bank’s surveillance video cassette recorder on the bank manager’s desk.
Scott and Young were the only employees on duty when Anderson walked into the bank the following day to thank the employees for help with the research paper — only to draw a pair of stolen guns, herd the women into the bank vault and order them to fill a trash bag with cash
At some point Anderson asked, “Which one of you guys wants to die first?” and began shooting with two .22-caliber handguns in a robbery of about $72,000.
Young was pronounced dead at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds. The bullet went through Scott’s neck, leaving her a quadriplegic.