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- LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- A blaze of automatic gunfire ripped through a crowded neighborhood after several heavily-armed gunmen dressed like commandos botched a bank robbery. Two of the five suspects were killed and another was wounded and taken prisoner. Five policemen and three bystanders were wounded in the shooting.
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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.
Feb 24, 2017 · On a February morning 20 years ago, two men covered in Kevlar sprayed hundreds of bullets from automatic assault weapons at police after a robbery at a North Hollywood Bank of America.
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Feb 28, 2017 · Two armor-clad figures standing calmly outside a bank were spewing machine gun fire at a swarm of police officers shooting back with pistols from behind car doors and trees.
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- Doug Smith,Kate Mather
- The Bungled Robbery of The North Hollywood Bank of America
- Inside The 44-Minute North Hollywood Shootout
- The Enduring Legacy of The North Hollywood Shootout
At 9:17 a.m. on Feb. 28, 1997, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Matasareanu arrived at the Bank of America in North Hollywood. They synchronized their watches, took muscle relaxers to calm their nerves, and entered the building. According to MEL Magazine, one witness recalled: “I heard gunshots and screaming voices — men’s voices — yelling, ‘This is a h...
Though Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Matasareanu were outnumbered by the L.A.P.D., they had much more powerful weapons than the officers, and they wore so much body armor that it was nearly impossible to take them down. Per the Los Angeles Daily News, they also carried more than 3,300 rounds of ammunition. Given their advantage, the robbers opened fi...
Despite the fact that more than 2,000 total rounds were fired during the North Hollywood shootout, Phillips and Matasareanu were the only fatalities. Eleven officers and seven civilian bystanders were injured in the exchange of gunfire, as reported by ABC 7, but all of them recovered. Of the scores of L.A.P.D. officers who responded, 19 of them rec...
Mar 2, 2023 · The armored vehicle robberies netted the pair only $122,000 while the bank robberies garnered them over $1.5 million. During the robberies, the men used automatic rifles and body armor to shock and overwhelm the victims.
Feb 28, 2023 · As the two heavily armed men got into a gun battle with LAPD officers after the botched bank robbery in North Hollywood, the suspects fired armor-piercing bullets from fully automatic weapons.
Feb 28, 2017 · On the morning of February 28, 1997, two heavily armed men wearing body armor burst into a Bank of America branch, took a little more than $300,000 and fired their way out. Larry Phillips Jr. and...
