It was a quiet boxing day afternoon on Dib Lane East Leeds.

Parents strolled with children, dogs padded along on Leeds,

and the smell of fresh bread drifted from the corner shop.

Everything looked ordinary.

Sandy Russell walked past the bus stop near the Lodge Medical Centre, her dog Lexi at her side. A police car sat parked nearby. Then came a loud bang.

Just yards away, two traffic officers were facing a man armed, desperate and deadly.

The BMW he sat in was stolen.

Its plates were false.

The driver, David Bieber, had turned a routine stop into a nightmare.

Witnesses would later describe a man running down Dib Lane,

past terrified civilians firing wildly,

before hijacking a car and disappearing into the city.

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David Francis Bieber was born in 1966 in Fort Myers, Florida, a quiet city on the southwestern

coast of the state.

He grew up in a middle-class household.

His father was a high school principal. His

upbringing, by most accounts, was very normal. But from a young age, David showed a natural

drive, this competitiveness that set him apart from his peers. By the age of 13, David had already carved out a reputation in the intense,

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