Keansburg Man Was Alleged Edison Bank Robber

Middlesex County officials have determined the identity of the would-be bank robber who shot and killed himself in Edison Wednesday when confronted by police.

Marck S. McMurry, 47, of Keansburg, was stopped from trying to hold up PNC Bank in the Tano Mall on Amboy Avenue yesterday by a guard who worked for an armored car company and who was in the bank during the attempted hold-up.

McMurry was brandishing a 9 mm pistol and demanded cash, said Jim O'Neill, spokesman for the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office.

The guard fired six shots and hit McMurry three times, in the arm, the back, and the neck. An autopsy found that none of the three wounds inflicted from those shots was fatal.

McMurry had escaped, after being shot, across the Tano Mall parking lot and fled into an A&P supermarket. He emerged at a rear entrance and was met by three Edison policemen. The robber then turned the gun on himself.

The autopsy determined that McMurry died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Authorities notified McMurry's family. The gunman was married and had been unemployed when he tried to rob the bank.

"There doesn't appear to be any criminal liability on the park of the guard," O'Neill said. No charges have been filed in the incident, but the investigation is ongoing, he said.