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The North Hollywood shootout, also known as the Battle of North Hollywood, [2] was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and police officers in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles on February 28, 1997.
Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Decebal Stefan Emilian "Emil" Mătăsăreanu, a.k.a. "The High Incident Bandits", were a pair of murderous bank robbers and cop killers famous for perpetrating a deadly shootout with Los Angeles officers after robbing a bank on February 28, 1997.
Mar 17, 2023 · On the morning of February 28, 1997, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Matasareanu led one of the biggest gun battles in Los Angeles history after robbing a Bank of America, firing more than 2,000 rounds at police before they died.
May 16, 2022 · And after their first few jobs, they earned a nickname from authorities, too: the “High Incident Bandits. Their first robbery was an armored car job. It was June 1995, when Phillips and Matasareanu, armed with modified fully-automatic assault rifles, walked up to a Brinks truck parked outside a Bank of America in Canoga Park and shot the ...
Feb 28, 2022 · Larry Phillips and Emil Matasareanu opened fire on cops and bystanders after robbing a Bank of America in North Hollywood. The gun battle lasted 44 minutes. The robbers were armed with thousands of...
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Feb 28, 2017 · For 44 minutes, out-gunned officers engaged the bank robbers, dodging barrages of high-powered bullets, rescuing their wounded and peppering their targets with hundreds of shots that bounced off...
Jul 2, 2013 · Nicknamed the “High Incident Bandits” because of earlier heists they’d pulled, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Matasareanu, dressed in full body armor, enter the bank. They are spotted by two ...
