A pair of confused robbers who were trying to escape through a Luke Air Force Base roadblock were shot late Monday night. News report from Glendale, Arizona reported on Associate Press and on CBS wires services said that Captain Jerry Gonzalez, speaking for the Air Force Base, reported that their security forces opened fire killing one of the robbers and injuring another because the driver failed to stop even when he saw the Air Force blockade. The security team opened fire when they feared for their own safety, according to Jerry Gonzales.

The robbers somehow were confused that they were on an Air Force Base used to train F 16 pilots.

Mariocopa County Sheriff’s deputies were following the escaping robbers at the intersection of Litchfield and Cactus Roads according to Glendale police office, Karen Gerado. Security at the Air Force had no way of knowing that the robbers were trying to crash into the base to escape from the police. There were other passengers whose number has not been reported also in the same vehicle.

The robbers did not know that Base Security had been notified and had set up the road block and kept on going even when they saw it in front of them.

The confusing circumstances of crashing into an Air Force base in full view of a security blockade was made even more complex with the information given by Sheriff’s deputies from Maricopa County that the confused robbers were somehow connected to another vehicle that they had pulled over just minutes before Air Force Base Security opened fire killing one of the passengers. All escaping passengers were arrested.