Bond Set at Over $1M for Brittany Harper of Crime-Spree Duo

Fitzgerald and Harper were wanted on robbery and kidnapping charges in Alabama in a crime spree that began in Tuscaloosa on Sunday morning when authorities say they kidnapped a night clerk at the Microtel Inn and Suites.

A two-week, multistate manhunt for an allegedly armed couple likened to a modern-day “Bonnie and Clyde” has ended with one suspect dead and the other in a hospital awaiting her arrest.

Harper is in the process of being charged with home invasion robbery, grand theft auto and false imprisonment.

Authorities believe the couple’s alleged crime binge began around January 22 with a home break-in in their hometown of Joplin, Missouri, in which guns were stolen.

“Actually, it scares me a little more because the way they acted with Kyle”, the clerk said of what her co-worker told her of his encounter.

Over the next few hours, Fitzgerald and Harper would run from authorities, at one point, holding a Penscola couple hostage at their home and stealing their truck.

“Thankfully, no innocent member of the public has been physically harmed by this modern-day Bonnie and Clyde, but the couple is armed and unsafe, and has a history of violent crimes and a string of new charges”, U.S. Marshal Martin Keely of the Northern District of Alabama said in a statement released earlier this week.

The couple reportedly committed an armed robbery at a Famous Footwear in Pensacola, FL.

Officials have planned a press conference for 9:30 a.m at the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office in Pensacola.

They fled and about two and a half hours later, police spotted their vehicle, chased them and ultimately lost them.

On Friday, Morgan said he didn’t want to glamorize the couple as a Bonnie and Clyde. She was later released unharmed, the U.S. Marshals said in a statement.

“An armed standoff ensued for approximately fifteen minutes, the suspects refused to surrender”, Sheriff Morgan said. State Attorney Bill Eddins says that Escambia County is “Gonna keep her”, and may not give her up for extradition to Missouri, Alabama or Georgia, but that is yet to be sorted out.

On Wednesday, officials said the couple committed a robbery in Walnut Hill, Ala., which is just south of Atmore, and then, allegedly robbed again in Destin, Fla. Six of his deputies are on administrative leave after the shooting while an investigation is being conducted by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE).

Prior to those incidents, the couple is believed to have robbed and kidnapped a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, hotel employee and stolen from a McDonald’s manager at gunpoint.

Police opened fire at that time, hitting and killing Fitzgerald and wounding Harper.