Substitute Bank Teller Slain By Robber In Oregon

SHERWOOD, Ore. - A bank teller on a one-day assignment away from her usual branch died yesterday after she was shot in the face during a robbery.

Tualatin police, sheriff's deputies and the FBI arrested a Newberg man about 3 1/2 hours later in a field northeast of town. Randall Loyal Smith, 36, was seized after officers fired tear gas at him.

Kathy Demarest, 40, of Milwaukie was on a one-day assignment at the Key Bank of Oregon branch in Sherwood, a town of 2,900 people south of Portland. She normally worked at the Milwaukie office, bank officials said.

The FBI said the bank was robbed about 11:40 a.m. by a gunman who approached Demarest and demanded that she put money in a brown paper sack.

The man ordered the second teller in the office to approach him, but she refused. He fired a second shot as he fled the bank in a light blue van, the FBI said.

Washington County sheriff's deputies and Tualatin police officers stopped Smith on a road near Highway 99W about a mile northeast of Sherwood, the FBI said. Smith refused to surrender, holding police officers at bay until 2:55 p.m. when FBI and SWAT team members fired the gas and rushed him.