Authorities are searching for a suspect who escaped with over $30,000 from an Orange County bank. On Oct. 17, deputies responded to reports of an armed suspect at a Chase bank near Portola and Bake Parkways in Lake Forest at around noontime.

Shots were fired during a bank robbery in Lake Forest Thursday afternoon, and now deputies are searching for the suspect. It happened just after noon Thursday, at the Chase Bank at the corner of Bake and Portola parkways,

Deputies were searching an area near a Chase Bank Thursday afternoon in the Foothill Ranch area where a shot was fired during an armed robbery, authorities said. Deputies responded to the south Orange County bank at about noon after a report of an armed robbery in progress.

Orange County sheriff’s deputies Thursday were looking for at least one suspect in a bank robbery with gunfire at a Chase Bank branch in Foothill Ranch.

A gunshot was fired during a bank robbery in Lake Forest, and a search was underway for the suspect, authorities said.