FORT WAYNE, IN (Indiana's NewsCenter) --- The man who a Fort Wayne police officer shot and killed Wednesday near Memorial Coliseum had been put in prison two years ago for threatening a spree of violence in his hometown of Bluffton.

Anthony Taylor clearly had a troubled past with law enforcement.

Police say Taylor robbed an Avilla bank Wednesday with an assault rifle, and then ignored police orders to surrender on Fort Wayne's northside that evening, taking a bullet in the chest when he turned toward officers with a replica or fake gun in his hand.

Back in 1996, Taylor committed armed robbery at a Warren Indiana motel, firing a shot at a police officer during an ensuing chase.

He was given a 16-year prison sentence.

He served half, which is the norm, before being released in 2005.

But a little more than a year later, he was back in prison on a probation violation.

Tammy Schaffer/Bluffton Police Chief: " He had made threats to a probation officer in the courthouse and had threatened to commit a bloodbath on the 4th floor of the courthouse, so we were very concerned about him. He would come and go a lot. There were times that we could converse with Anthony and he was fine, and then there were other times we just couldn't."

We were also allowed to hear a recording from an emergency call to Bluffton police back in September of last year, in which a woman was frantically asking for police aid, because Anthony Taylor was running stop signs and ramming cars at a high rate of speed.

He was awaiting trial on new felony charges from that incident, when he died Wednesday night.

Bluffton Chief Tammy Schaffer says in December, Taylor’s mother reported him missing.

Three days later, he was found at a Marion truck stop, passed out in his own car.

Schaffer says he suffered some degree of frostbite.

She says a Bluffton officer recommended to Marion authorities that Taylor undergo a mental evaluation.

It’s not clear if that actually happened, before his fatal run-in with Fort Wayne police on January 14th.

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