The manhunt for Mario Edward Garnett ended at just after 10 am in Phoenix when he was shot by a police detective in a shootout in a Phoenix bank after he had taken cash from the bank's vault and was attempting to flee.

The shootout in Phoenix ends the hunt for the man suspected of at least three bank robbberies in the last week. Garnett’s crime spree, according to authorities, kicked off with an attempted bank robbery in Atlanta.

In that botched hold-up, Garnett would after hold up a man outside the bank at the ATM machine. Then hours later on December 23rd, Garnett robbed a bank in Tupelo, Mississippi, where it is alleged that he shot two police officers following the heist. One of the officers died from his wounds.

A $200,000 reward was placed on Garnett after the robberies and killing. But, it was not enough to curtail Garnett’s bank robbing efforts and he would continue on his spree. But his spree came to an end as he left the Phoenix bank with loot in hand and fired on a police officer. A second officer, this one undercover, returned fire killing Garnett at the scene.

Garnett is the same individual who threatened President Obama in 2010. During that incident, Garnett posted on the White House online website that “If you order a strike on Iran, I’m going to come up there and blow your brains out on national TV,” As a result of that threat, Garnett was sentenced to eight months in prison and was barred from owning a firearm. Garnett was also subject to three years of supervised release, that release ended in July.

Although Garnett’s participation as yet hasn’t been confirmed in all of the robberies, authorities say that the suspects in the robberies were wearing similar clothes, used the same terminology, and cell phone records show that Garnett was in the immediate area of all the robberies.