According to police, a man opened fire in a bank in Waterbury, a western Connecticut city, on Wednesday injuring one person.

Shortly after the robbery a car crash occurred and was believed to be connected with the robbery.

The attack on the bank happened after 11 a.m. at a Webster Bank on Highland Avenue, police said.

They said they already had one suspect in custody but were searching for another one after the car crashed occurred.

During the bank robbery one person was shot. The victim was Felix Sambuco, a 22-year veteran and battalion chief of the Waterbury Fire Department, who was wounded in the right leg. He was taken to a hospital to be treated for non-life threatening injuries, MSNBC reports.

A few minutes after the robbery, a car which matched the description of the one which fled from the scene was involved in an accident on a Route 8 not far away from the scene of the accident, according to state police Lt. J. Paul Vance.

Police were searching for the suspect who fled from the car.

Authorities didn’t know if money were taken out of the bank.

Police locked eight schools in the area as a precaution because the suspect was armed.

The robber fled on foot.