Police have identified the man who died in a shoot-out during an attempted robbery at a Niles bank on Friday.

Berrien County police say 22-year-old Devarence Damon Kimbrough from Elkhart was shot and died during surgery Friday.

Police say two men went inside the Berrien Teachers Credit Union Friday morning and announced they were robbing the place.

Police say the robbers and a security guard exchanged fire inside and outside the bank.

The men took off in a getaway car, driven by another suspect.

Kimbrough later turned up at South Bend's Memorial Hospital but died during surgery.

The same bank was robbed just a few months ago, causing people in this Niles neighborhood to compare notes--

Both happened around the same time of day and there were similar circumstances. In October, three black men walked into the bank armed, while a getaway driver waited outside.

The same thing happened Friday but this time, only two black men walked in and one ended up dead.

Just as they start to forget about the scene three months ago, people who live and work near the Berrien Teacher's Credit Union see it again.

Danny Schultz says, “It's kind of shocking especially now that they're shooting guns you know. Right now, I'm thinking about the people in the bank and what they're going through, the trauma.

Shultz used to work behind a cash register. He says he's glad he doesn't anymore

Tina Young, who works at a gas station steps away from the bank agrees.

Young says, “I sort of watch to see who comes here and if someone looks suspicious I lock the door and go get one of the guys.”

Skeeter Hargreaver, who works with Young says, “I think they're should be a guy because sometimes when you think somebody is going to come in, if they see a guy present they might think a little different.”

Young says nothing scares thieves and they seem to like this area.

She says, “The most recent one happened at a Marathon station.”

Shocked and scared is the obvious reaction to a robbery close to home but, what really has people talking is how the robbery ended here.

Hargreaver says, “Movies, yeah sometimes your bank robbers end up dead there.”

This time it happened it Niles.

He says, “I figure usually they get the money and go.”

They did go. Now, one man is dead and two men are somewhere out there armed.

Shultz says, “It's kind of scary that they could come back and do it over.”

A number of people we talked to say they believe the people responsible for this robbery are the same men who got away in October.

Again, police haven't confirmed whether the two are related.

Witnesses say they saw them leave in a four door gray sedan with Indiana plates.

If anyone has any information, they are urged to contact the Berrien County Sheriff’s Department Detective Bureau.

Stay with NewsCenter 16 for more on this developing story.