Casefile Revisited: North Hollywood Shootout

*** Content warnings: Gun violence *** When Larry Phillips Junior and Emil Mătăsăreanu entered the North Hollywood branch of the Bank of America on February 28 1997, no one could have predicted the chaos that was about to ensue. What followed was 44 minutes of pure mayhem. Casefile Revisited features newly re-recorded versions of classic episodes, revisiting the stories with enhanced production, fresh narration, and updated research where possible. --- Narration – Anonymous Host https://www.instagram.com/caseys.snaps/ Research & writing – Anonymous Host https://www.instagram.com/caseys.snaps/ & Elsha McGill Production & music – Mike Migas http://mikemigas.com/ Audio editing – Anthony Telfer Sign up for Casefile Premium: Apple Premium https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/casefile-true-crime/id998568017?ign-itscg=30200S&ign-itsct=casefile_podcastsSpotify Premium https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/9gSwcv7USsbPatreon https://www.patreon.com/casefileFor all credits and sources, please visit https://casefilepodcast.com/casefile-archives-11-north-hollywood-shootout The North Hollywood Shootout episode was originally released in May 2016. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  As Case File continues into its 10th year, we're currently taking a very short break from new episodes. Brand-new cases will be returning on May 23 for premium subscribers and May 30 for the regular feed. But, in the meantime, we're continuing our special bonus series, Case File Archives, a collection of releases revisiting the earliest years of the show, along with previously unreleased premium episodes. Rest assured that these are additional bonus releases and will not replace our standard schedule. We will still be delivering the same number of new episodes this year as we did last year. Case File Archives is simply a way to mark the 10th year, revisit some older episodes,

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  and share stories that newer listeners may not have heard before. For the re-release episodes, we fully edited, polished, rerecorded, and freshly produced them from start to finish to match our current production standards. They are not complete rewrites. Our aim isn't to reshape the cases or alter the original storytelling, but to preserve them as they were first told while bringing them up to the level of production the show has today. Where appropriate, updates have been added, but the core structure remains faithful to the originals. Because of this, these episodes may sound a little different to our recent work.

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  Today's re-release is The North Hollywood Shootout, originally aired as Case 18 on May 8, 2016. I still remember sitting on the floor of my childhood lounge room glued to the TV as footage of this shootout played on the evening news. Even in the days before the 24-hour news cycle, social media, and the kind of instant global coverage we see today, it was major news here on the other side of the world, and those images are still burned into my mind nearly 30 years later. Now, here is Case 18 from Case File Archives, The North Hollywood Shootout.

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  Our episodes deal with serious and often distressing incidents. If you feel at any time you need support, please contact your local crisis centre. For suggested phone numbers for confidential support and for a more detailed list of content warnings, please see the show notes for this episode on your app or on our website. Case file would like to acknowledge northhollywoodshootout.net, a website dedicated exclusively to this case, which offers the most comprehensive and factual account you will find online. This episode could not have been created without the use of that resource. If you would like to know more, check out northhollywoodshootout.net for images, timelines,

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  original newspaper articles, detailed analyses, and much more.

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  February 28, 1997 was a regular Friday for Los Angeles Police Officers Lauren Farrell and Martin Perrello as they made their way down Laurel Canyon Boulevard in North Hollywood. But as they drove their patrol car past the Bank of America branch at the intersection of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Archwood Street, they noticed something out of the ordinary. Two large figures were entering the bank. Both were dressed in black and wearing ski masks. Most alarmingly, both were carrying automatic rifles.

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  Fifty day forty, speed question assistance, we have a possible 211 in progress at the Bank of America, Bank of America, Laurel Canyon, north of Kittredge, we have shots fired.

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  Thirty-nine, show it responding, code three.

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  All units, officer needs help, at the Bank of America, Laurel Canyon, north of Kittredge, officer needs help, Bank of America, Laurel Canyon, north of Kittredge.

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  Before we get to the bank, we go back to 1967. Larry Phillips Sr. was just one year out of high school when he was sent to jail for what some reports claimed to be grave desecration. He was apparently involved in a drunken prank where he tried to dig up a grave and remove the head of a corpse. Larry Sr. was paroled in January 1968, but just three months later, he was sent back to jail for robbing a gas station. He spent three months behind bars before being transferred to a state-run psychiatric facility in Colorado. The reason for his transfer is unknown, but 10 months later, on April 18, 1969, Larry Sr. escaped.

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  A warrant was immediately issued for his arrest, but in the meantime, he picked up his girlfriend, Dorothy Clay, who reportedly had a criminal record of her own and had also spent time in jail. The couple went on the run, using numerous aliases to successfully avoid detection for the next few years. Very little is known about what happened to them during this time, but at some point, Larry Phillips Sr. and Dorothy Clay made their way to California. And it was at the California Hospital in Los Angeles on September 20, 1970, that Larry Phillips Jr. was born. However, it would be many years until he would be known by this name.

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  Given that his parents were still on the run, they used fake names and addresses when registering Larry Jr.'s birth, listing him on his birth certificate as Larry Eugene Warfel.

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  By September twenty-two, nineteen seventy-six, Dorothy and Larry Junior were living in a small town near Denver, Colorado. Although Larry Senior was no longer living with them, he came over to celebrate Larry Junior's sixth birthday. Shortly after he arrived, seven FBI agents stormed through the house and placed him under arrest. It's unknown who tipped them off, but he was sent back to jail to serve the rest of his sentence for the gas station robbery after seven years on the run. No doubt, that was an experience Larry Junior would not forget.

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  In the years that followed, Larry Phillips Senior and Dorothy Clay divorced. But during his sporadic visits with his son, Larry Senior passed on his anti-police and anti-establishment views. By nineteen eighty-six, Dorothy decided to move to Los Angeles. Sixteen-year-old Larry Junior went with her, having already quit high school in the ninth grade. He had developed a love of bodybuilding, and as soon as he got to California, he bought a five-year membership to the world-famous Gold's Gym at Venice Beach. Like so many before him, Larry Junior had plans to make it big. He wanted to be the next Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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  Gold's Gym was a two-hour trip from where Larry Junior was living, but he remained committed. It was only after a few years that he realized he wasn't going to make it as a professional bodybuilder, and he let his gym membership expire. Looking for other avenues to find his fortune, in nineteen ninety, Larry Junior looked to cash in on Los Angeles's booming property market. To receive his real estate license, he had to undergo a background check. He provided a fingerprint, which revealed his first and only arrest in nineteen eighty-nine for shoplifting four hundred dollars' worth of clothes.

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  With his bodybuilding dreams shattered and his chance at real estate success taken away due to his criminal record, Larry Junior became down and out. Instead of taking responsibility for his own actions, he blamed everybody else and started to resent society and its rules. Larry Junior moved back to Denver with his high school sweetheart turned wife Sharon and their two children.

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  Determined to strike it rich, Larry came up with a new plan. In 1992, he contacted local real estate agents pretending to be a prospective buyer. When the agents took him to inspect a house, he watched as they accessed the lockbox which contained the keys to the house and he memorized the combination.

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  Using a fake name, Larry then placed ads in the local paper claiming to have several rental properties available. He took prospective tenants to inspect the properties, claiming they had just been sold and that the new owners wanted to rent them out as soon as possible. Larry would then accept down payments for rent and security deposits. The scam didn’t last long. Larry Phillips Junior was soon arrested but released pending a sentencing hearing in which he faced a possible two years in Denver County Jail whilst also participating in a work release program.

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  In the lead up to the hearing, Larry walked out on Sharon and their two kids and they never saw him again.

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  When the day of his sentencing hearing came on March 26, 1993, Larry was nowhere to be seen. A warrant for his arrest was issued immediately, but like his father before him, it appeared that Larry Junior had gone on the run.

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  Back in 1989, while working out at Gold's Gym in Venice Beach, Larry Phillips Jr. had made a friend. Born on July 19, 1966, Emil Matusaranu was a Romanian immigrant who had moved to the USA at the age of 11. While he was the victim of bullying during his years at Pasadena High School, Emil went on to complete a three-year electronics engineering degree at university. He opened his own computer business in 1988, but it failed to get off the ground. He got married and had a son, but the marriage didn't last either.

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  Emil and Larry Jr. had bonded over their shared interest in bodybuilding. Emil was also passionate about firearms. After Larry fled from his charges in Colorado, he returned to Los Angeles and talked back up with his buddy. Both fresh off their failed endeavors, they started discussing ways they could make it rich. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say that Larry tried to work out how Emil could help make him rich. Larry had big dreams of living an extravagant lifestyle. He sometimes drove to affluent neighborhoods and parked outside of houses he liked to picture himself living in.

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  He didn't bring anyone into his inner circle unless he thought he could use them to his advantage. He was the type who tried to break others down just so he could build them back up and then control them. Larry was the manipulator, while Emil was more the follower. He did whatever Larry wanted.

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  On July 20, 1993, the pair successfully committed their first robbery, ambushing an armored car outside a branch of First Bank in Littleton, Colorado. The police were unable to identify any suspects, and the pair got away with it. Three months later, on October twenty-nine, nineteen ninety-three, Larry and Emil were driving through Glendale, California, when they were pulled over by Sergeant Ian Grimes.

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  Larry was driving and Emil was in the front passenger seat. When questioned, Larry said he had left his licence at home and he gave a false name. Sergeant Grimes then asked whose car it was, to which Emil replied, "It was Larry's mother's car."

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  Sergeant Grimes had already done a check and he knew the car was actually an airport rental. He asked Larry to step out of the vehicle and then patted him down, finding a Glock pistol with an extended thirty-three-round magazine. A loud thud then came from inside the car. It was the sound of Emil dropping his own pistol underneath the passenger seat. Sergeant Grimes called for assistance and covered Larry and Emil until backup arrived. A subsequent search of the car uncovered a semi-automatic rifle and a Springfield pistol belonging to Larry, as well as a semi-automatic rifle and a Colt pistol belonging to Emil. Police also found:

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  sixteen hundred and forty-nine rounds of thirty-nine-millimetre ammo, nine hundred and sixty-seven rounds of nine-millimetre ammo, three hundred and fifty-seven rounds of forty-five ammo, six smoke bombs, two improvised explosive devices, one gas mask, two sets of body armour, two police scanners, sunglasses, gloves, wigs, ski masks and a stopwatch, two spray cans of hair colour, three different sets of Californian licence plates, and sixteen hundred and twenty dollars in cash. The police were convinced they had just stopped a bank robbery from happening. And given what was to come, they were quite obviously right.

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  Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Matisaranu were taken to the Glendale Police Station, where they were both charged with conspiracy to commit robbery and unlawful weapons activity. Larry was also charged with grand theft auto, carrying a loaded concealed firearm and felony perjury, while Emil was charged with carrying a loaded firearm in a vehicle.

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  At their preliminary hearing, the grand theft auto and the perjury charges against Larry were dropped, but the two men still faced eight years jail on the remaining charges. The problem was, neither Larry nor Emil said a word, and the police had no other information to go on. Despite the arsenal and disguises they were found with, it was difficult to prove they were going to commit a robbery.

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  At their arraignment, Larry and Emil claimed the disguises were for an upcoming Halloween party. As for the weapons and ammo, they said they were headed to a shooting range.

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  In exchange for early guilty pleas, the district attorney dropped the conspiracy to commit robbery charges and allowed Larry and Emil to plead to much lesser offences. On December 27, 1993, Larry was sentenced to 99 days in jail, while Emil was sentenced to 71 days, and both were given three years probation. Both men were released immediately due to time already served.

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  Larry was still wanted in Denver on the rental property scam, but for unknown reasons, Denver authorities didn't pursue him. Without being extradited back to Colorado to face punishment, he was essentially a free man.

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  Just under a year and a half after Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Madasaranu were released on June 14, 1995, a 52-year-old security guard named Herman Cook was doing his rounds as an armored car guard for a cash handling company called Brink's. It was Herman's job to drop off and pick up cash for various banks. At around 12:25 PM, he had just made a drop-off at the Bank of America branch on Roscoe Boulevard in the quiet Los Angeles neighbourhood of Wenetka. Herman was walking back to the armored car with an empty money bag when gunshots suddenly rang out. Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Madasaranu were firing high-powered rifles from behind a

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  wall in an adjacent parking lot. Herman was shot multiple times. He staggered to the front of the car and collapsed. Herman's partner Felipe Cortez was in the armored car at the time. Emil opened fire on the vehicle while Larry made the approach. Felipe managed to take out his own firearm and shoot one of the offenders, but they only staggered, indicating they were wearing body armour. Larry reached into the car and grabbed a bag of money. The two men then escaped, making off with around $122,000. Felipe was shot in the attack but survived.

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  Herman wasn't so lucky. He died from the gunshot wounds. After that, Larry and Emil decided to change tactics. Ten and a half months later, at 10 AM on May 2, 1996, they burst through the doors of the Bank of America branch on Woodman Avenue in the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Van Nuys. Both armed with automatic rifles, they yelled at everyone in the bank to get on the fucking floor. Emil then started shooting through the armored teller door. Due to the type of weapon and calibre of bullet, the door opened easily.

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  Emil forced the manager to open the vault and then started filling up a large bag with cash.

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  Larry remained in the main area of the bank, keeping an eye on the customers and other staff members.

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  In just six minutes, they managed to get away with $755,000.

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  Twenty-nine days later, at 10 a.m. on May 31, 1996, Larry and Emil burst through the doors of the Bank of America on Roscoe Boulevard in Winnetka.

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  It was the same branch they had targeted almost a year earlier when killing Brink's security guard Herman Cook. Again, the two men yelled at everybody to get down. Emil shot his way through the teller door, striking two bank employees with ricochets in the process. Emil grabbed the manager, forced her to open the vault, and screamed at her to fill up his bag. When he saw how much money was in the vault, he became agitated.

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  "Where's the rest of it?", he screamed, before threatening to kill the manager. Emil was expecting a much larger amount. He and Larry had done surveillance on the bank and saw what they thought to be a cash delivery from an armored car. But what they had actually seen was a cash pickup. Despite being disappointed in the haul, they still managed to escape with over $794,000, though there were several marked bills amongst it.

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  The two employees who were struck by ricochets survived.

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  Emil and Larry got lucky that day. One of the tellers had managed to hit the silent alarm before diving onto the floor, but the police were thin on the ground and it took them much longer than usual to respond to the alarm. Larry and Emil had been in the bank for close to eight minutes. On a typical day, the police would have been able to respond within this timeframe, and it was likely they would have been caught.

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  The police had no suspects for the robberies at the time, but they did give the unknown criminals a title: the High Incident Bandits. It would be nine months before they struck again.

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  Branch 384 of the Bank of America is located at 6600 Laurel Canyon Boulevard in North Hollywood. Larry and Emil had studied the bank closely. They learnt its layout, observed armoured car drop-offs and pickups, and carefully formulated a plan.

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  At around 9:15 on the morning of Friday, February 28, 1997, Emil drove a white 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity Sedan with blackened-out windows into the northern parking lot of the bank via Archwood Street. The pair weren't mucking around. To protect himself, Larry wore a Kevlar body armour vest, a groin protector, and makeshift armour for his shins, thighs and forearms that he'd crafted out of additional vests. All up, the body armour weighed around 43 pounds, or 20 kilos. Larry also wore a load-bearing vest that contained ammunition pouches,

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  as well as a belt that contained several canteen pouches filled with ammunition drums for the automatic rifles. He also carried a pistol in a shoulder holster. Over his armour, Larry was dressed in long black pants, a long-sleeved shirt and a black jacket. He wore black gloves, with a watch face glued to the back of the left one. Emil was similarly dressed, right down to the glued-on watch face on the back of his glove. However, he wasn't wearing quite as much body armour as Larry, with his legs and arms unprotected. Given their shared interest in bodybuilding, both men were largely built.

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  As if they didn't already look intimidating enough, they topped things off by wearing black ski masks. Between the pair, they had three AK-47-style fully-automatic assault rifles with 100-round ammo drums, as well as two other assault rifles which had been illegally modified to fire fully-automatic, two 9mm handguns, a 38-calibre revolver, close to 3,000 rounds of ammo, including armour-piercing rounds. These were weapons that were designed for war.

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  By listening to police radios, Larry and Emile had learnt that the average response time for police was eight minutes. At 9:17am, they set their watches for eight minutes and made their move.

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  The northern doorway to the bank was about 32 feet from where the men had parked. They each grabbed an AK-47 and a handgun, leaving the other assault rifles in the Chevrolet, along with a police radio, and ran for the door. At that very moment, a Los Angeles Police Department patrol vehicle occupied by Officers Lauren Farrell and Martin Perrello was driving down Laurel Canyon Boulevard on a routine patrol. By pure luck, the officers were in the right place at the right time, or the wrong place at the wrong time, depending on which way you look at it. After seeing Larry and Emil, the officers swung the police car into the southern parking

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  lot of the Bank of America and took up positions behind their patrol car. Officer Farrell then made the first broadcast.

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  584, it's the question assistant. We have a possible 211 in progress at the Bank of America. Bank of America. Laurel Canyon, North of Kirkland, we have shots fired.

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  Thirty-nine shows responding code three.

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  All units, officer needs help. At the Bank of America Lower Canyon, north of Kittredge. Officer needs help. Bank of America, Lower Canyon, north of Kittredge.

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  At the northern entrance of the bank was a foyer containing three ATMs. A customer was using one of the ATMs when he felt somebody approach him from behind. Turning around, he got quite the shock when he saw Larry and Emil. Larry ordered, "Okay, motherfucker, let's go." Not about to argue, the customer did as he was told and walked into the bank with the two men. Upon their entrance, Emil started firing his rifle into the roof, yelling, "Everyone down." "This is a fucking holdup," Larry declared. "Everyone down, motherfuckers."

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  There were about thirty customers in the bank at the time, including five of whom were in the safety deposit box room. Everybody complied, although one of the tellers was able to hit the holdup alarm before diving to the floor.

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  The suspects are inside the bank. They're in progress inside the Bank of America, lower Canyon, north of Kittredge. The suspects are inside of the bank. It's a chill of an in-progress inside the Bank of America, lower Canyon, north of Kittredge. The suspects are inside of the bank.

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  Like in the previous bank robberies, Emil approached the teller door and shot his way through it. The door was bullet resistant and designed to stop any pistol round, but it was no match for Emil's high-powered automatic assault rifle. Once he got through the door, Emil yelled, "Get the money, or we will kill you." Joe Villagrana, the branch's assistant manager, got up and made himself known. Emil aimed the rifle at him and told him to open the vault. As they made their way there, Emil struck Joe in the back of the head with the rifle. When they passed the safety deposit box room, Emil shot more rounds into the roof

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  and screamed at the people inside to get out. Larry remained in the lobby, keeping control of the customers and other employees.

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  Meanwhile, Officer Farrell kept the radio transmissions coming, telling the other police where he wanted everyone set up.

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  Eight three, I want a unit on the north side, I want a unit on the south side, and I want a unit on the far, if possible.

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  Fifteen eight thirty-nine, this is Spun in Car Three, Laurel Canyon, north of Petridge. Fifteen eight three, want the unit on the north side, on the south side, and on the rear.

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  Eight three, we want someone to position themselves safely to lock the front door. We don't think the suspects know we're here. Fifteen now forty-two.

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  Fifteen now forty-two is requesting a unit to safely position themselves in front of the front door. Self suspects possibly do not know the PD is there.

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  The next officers to arrive on scene were Detectives Tracy Angeles and William Krulak. At nine nineteen AM, they pulled into a parking lot opposite the bank's entrance on the western side. Sergeant Larry Haynes was next on scene. He blocked off the intersection of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Archwood Street, which was north of the bank. This gave him a view of the door that Larry and Emil had entered through. To the best of their knowledge, the offenders had no idea they were outside at this time. There were a few civilian witnesses hanging outside the bank, and they each approached Sergeant Haynes to report what they'd witnessed.

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  L forty-two advisors, we got two witnesses over here. I'd say there's possibly two and three suspects in size, possible AK forty-sevens, who are wearing ski masks and dark clothing.

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  Fifteen now forty-two advisors, there are two correction witnesses at the location. Advisors, two to three suspects inside the bank, wearing ski masks and AK forty-sevens.

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  Less than thirty seconds later, seemingly now realizing that the police were there, Larry exited the bank through the northern lobby. Sergeant Haynes released another broadcast.

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  Peter advisors, I think somebody just came out of the front door of the Bank of America.

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  An advisor's unknown person has exited the bank.

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  Outside, Larry casually looked around and surveyed the scene. He didn't look concerned at all. From his position, it's likely he would have only been able to see Sergeant Haines' patrol car, so it might not have looked that bad. After having a look around, Larry turned around and calmly walked back inside the bank. Shortly after this, Officer Martin Whitfield arrived and parked next to Sergeant Haines.

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  Meanwhile, Emil had gained entry to the vault. But progress was slow due to the cash being stored in several separate locked boxes. This was specifically designed to slow down bank robberies, and it was working. Emil forced the assistant manager, Joe Villagrana, to open the boxes and fill his bag with the cash.

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  In the lobby, Larry walked over to a security guard who was lying face down on the floor. Larry put his foot on the guard's neck, pointed his rifle at him, and said, "If you move, motherfucker, I will kill you. When I tell you, I want you to move all of these people to the vault." The security guard nodded. Larry then walked off, shooting his rifle into the roof while screaming, "Nobody look at me, or I will kill you."

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  Back inside the vault, Emil was becoming furious. There was nowhere near the amount of money he'd anticipated. Unbeknownst to him, due to the large number of recent robberies, including the two at Van Nys and Wenecker that Larry and Emil had committed, the Bank of America had changed its delivery schedule. Much to Emil's outrage, the North Hollywood branch still hadn't received their cash delivery that morning. Emil started firing his weapon in frustration. Due to the large amount of gunfire being let off and the fact there were hostages inside the bank, specialist police were needed.

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  The call was put in for SWAT to attend.

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  Four shots are being fired from the suspect.

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  Eighteen or forty more shots are being shared from the suspects at Laurel Canyon north of Kittredge at the Bank of America.

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  This is Al-10, requesting SWAT response at this location, requesting a team for SWAT.

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  By this point, police had the bank surrounded. Officers Haynes and Whitfield were still at the intersection of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Archwood Street, giving them a good view of the northern doorway. Officer Brantlinger was east of their position, covering the northeastern side of the bank. First officers on the scene, Farrell and Parello, were still in position in the southern parking lot. Detectives Krulak and Angeles had been joined by Officers Zaboravan and Officer Guy in the parking lot opposite the bank on the western side. And, there were still plenty more police officers on the way. Back inside the vault, Joe had placed three hundred and three thousand, three hundred

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  and five dollars inside Emil's bag. But amongst all that cash, were three diapacks. Emil walked out of the vault towards the teller door. Larry yelled at a bank employee to, "Open the door, open the fucking door." She complied. Larry then yelled at the security guard, demanding, "Move these people to the vault, now."

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  The customers and employees made their way inside the vault.

• 37:35Speaker 00

  The time was nine twenty-four AM. Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Madasaranu had been inside the bank for over seven minutes. Larry burst through the northern door of the bank, looking straight up towards the intersection of Archwood Street and Laurel Canyon Boulevard, where Haynes and Whitfield were positioned. Without a second of hesitation, Larry opened fire. First, he aimed for Officer Haynes's patrol car.

• 38:04Speaker 00

  Three civilian witnesses were still there, and immediately dove for cover. Officer Whitfield was behind his patrol car next to Haynes. Larry took aim and unleashed on him as well.

• 38:18Speaker 00

  The bullets ripped through the car with ease, wounding Whitfield in the process.

• 38:31Speaker 04

  All units, I know United, there's large shots fired, 500 block of Lower Canyon.

• 38:37Speaker 04

  Fire by anyone on that ground. All units, officers requesting help, Lower Canyon, North of Kittredge, at the Bank of America, shots are being fired. All units, officer requested help at the bank. Fire by anyone on that ground. Stay down. They're shooting AK-47s. All units, at the Bank of America, stay down, shots are being fired, automatic fire. Code three. Squad is being notified, code three, all officers stay down, shots are being fired from AK-47s. There is an officer down. Hey, let me see, officer down, officer down. All units, officer needs help, Lower Canyon and Kittredge, officer down, officer needs help, Lower Canyon and Kittredge, officer down.

• 39:14Speaker 00

  As Larry was firing north, he effectively had his back turned to other officers who were positioned to the southwest, taking cover behind a locksmith's kiosk. Officer Zaborivan was among them, and he saw an opportunity. Zaborivan stepped out and fired two shots from his pump-action shotgun. Some of the pellets struck Larry in the back. One even found a gap in his body armor and struck him directly. The hit caused Larry to stumble, but he didn't fall. He turned around to face Zaborivan, who had resumed his position behind the cover of the locksmith kiosk.

• 39:57Speaker 00

  Larry opened fire on the kiosk, shooting over 100 rounds into the building. The cover was flimsy, and bullets penetrated the walls easily and ricocheted all over the place. The officers hit the ground.

• 40:13Speaker 00

  Officers Zaborivan and Gaia had body armor on, but detectives Krulak and Angela's did not. Realizing this, Zaborivan placed his body over the top of Detective Angela's. A few seconds later, he was struck twice and started bleeding heavily.

• 40:31Speaker 04

  We need help finding which officers down, get us, get us a good attack armor here. Any of you that know how many officers are down, we have one. More than one, more than one. There's more than one officer down, squad is being notified to air lift. 15, 90, Roger. Code forty.

• 40:59Speaker 04

  I've been hit. 5:40, one officer has been hit, attack alert is being declared. 5:40, one other officer has been hit, we are declaring attack alert, RA is in route, squad is being notified to air lift.

• 41:13Speaker 00

  After unloading on the locksmith kiosk, Larry turned back to the north, towards Officers Whitfield and Haynes and the three civilian witnesses.

• 41:23Speaker 00

  Haynes was broadcasting on the police radio when Larry opened fire again, striking Haynes in the upper left arm. The patrol car was being quickly destroyed by bullets and offering minimal protection. Civilian Tracy Fisher could see her cover dwindling away. Panicking, she decided to run, but as she tried to get away, she was shot in the foot. Tracy dropped back down behind the patrol car.

• 41:52Speaker 00

  Another civilian, Michael Horan, had also been struck. Together with Officer Haynes, this left three wounded people behind the patrol car.

• 42:05Speaker 00

  Back behind the locksmith kiosk, Detective Krulak asked Officer Zaborivan if he was able to run. Despite being shot, Zaborivan said he could. The two tried to get to safety using vehicles in the parking lot as cover, but Larry spotted them and unleashed more bullets. Both men were hit with glass and other fragments as Larry's bullets damaged the surrounding cars. Detective Krulak was also shot in the right ankle. The pair spotted a dentist's surgery nearby and made a run for it while Larry continued peppering them with bullets. When they got to the dentist's door, they didn't have time to stop and open it.

• 42:49Speaker 00

  Instead, they just dove right through the glass.

• 42:54Speaker 00

  Using the cars in the parking lot as cover, Detective Angela's and Officer Guy tried to escape as well. Larry turned his attention to them and sprayed them with bullets. By this point, Larry had been firing at the police for around three minutes. During that time, he had fired approximately 300 rounds and wounded several officers and civilians.

• 43:20Speaker 00

  At 9:27 a.m., Larry walked back inside the bank.

• 43:26Speaker 00

  The police struggled to explain the onslaught. One officer put it best when he said: "I was in the wrong place with the wrong gun." The bullets the police were using were incapable of penetrating Larry's body armour, and given that most of his body was protected, the police basically had no chance. Larry, on the other hand, had an automatic assault rifle with armour-piercing rounds that were going through cars and walls with ease. It wasn't a fair fight.

• 44:02Speaker 00

  From inside the dentist office, Officer Zaboravan called out for help. The dentist on site, Dr Jorge Montez, tended to him right away, but he really needed a hospital. Outside, more and more officers arrived at the scene and took positions around the perimeter. At 9:30 AM, Larry walked back outside. This time, Emil was with him. They both carried the bag of money through the door and stood in the entrance way, which gave them a level of protection. They then opened fire, aiming towards the position where Officer Guy and Detective Angeles were taking cover.

• 44:47Speaker 00

  Upstairs in the dentist office, Zaboravan was looking out and could see what was going on. He yelled into the police radio:

• 44:57Speaker 04

  "Help! Officer Guy, it's a building! Officer Guy, it's a building behind you!"

• 45:02Speaker 00

  Zaboravan was trying to direct his colleague to safety, but Officer Guy was pinned down by the heavy fire. The bullets ripped through the car he was taking cover behind, and he was struck in the right thigh. Officer Guy took his gun belt off and used it as a tourniquet, which would ultimately save his life. Detective Angeles was also wounded.

• 45:27Speaker 00

  The police were basically helpless at this point. Most of the original responders had been wounded and the SWAT team still hadn't arrived. They had actually been on a training exercise at the police academy when the call came through. Larry and Emil continued to fire at anything that moved. Despite being completely surrounded, they calmly left the entrance of the bank and walked out into the open. Wounded officers Haynes and Whitfield were still behind their patrol cars with the three civilians when they realised that Larry and Emil were moving towards them. The officers made a decision to try and protect the civilians by drawing the fire away from them.

• 46:11Speaker 00

  Officers Haynes and Whitfield got up and ran so that the shooters would target them instead. Haynes managed to reach a nearby tree line and took cover, but he was wounded again, this time in the left shin. Whitfield also tried to take cover behind a nearby tree, but not before being shot through the thigh. The bullet shattered his femur, putting him in really bad shape, but he managed to crawl his way behind the tree. Not satisfied with badly wounding him, Larry and Emil continued to fire. Officers were going down everywhere.

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• 49:19Speaker 03

  I need an R and D unit, please help. In front of the building before the parking lot.

• 49:24Speaker 04

  Officers requesting help in the building and pouring parking lot. There's possibly also a motor officer down at Victory and Archwood.

• 49:37Speaker 04

  Are you the checkpoint overnight? Yes, sir, I'll get back. Yes, I just requested help. What is your location? The builder's parking lot? Affirmative, affirmative. South of Hughes, in the parking lot, in the building. Multiple officers hit. Multiple officers hit in the building, south of, south of Hughes Market. Multiple officers hit. They're sending in a tank for the officers.

• 50:00Speaker 04

  He's in, he's in, he's on the, uh, north side of the bank. On the north side of the bank. Oh, yeah, this is a citywide tack alert. We are now on tack alert due to an unusual occurrence in North Hollywood Division. A citywide tack alert at this time, until further notice.

• 50:16Speaker 00

  Media helicopters had started to arrive and were capturing the first pictures of this madness that would soon be broadcast around the world. A police helicopter also circled above, giving updates on what they could see from the air. Larry carried the bag of money to their Chevrolet while Emil covered him by continuing to shoot. By this point, the dye packs had exploded inside the bag, but a lot of the money remained untainted. Larry dropped the bag next to the car and grabbed some more ammunition, with Emil close behind.

• 50:53Speaker 04

  They're going to north, they're going to the front, out north. The suspect are exiting through the north front. Yeah. Suspect on the north side of the building, just walking around like nothing. They got AK-47s, two of them, they're dressed in all black, heavy body armor.

• 51:09Speaker 04

  The suspect are exiting the bank on the north side of the building, armed with AK-47s, wearing heavy body armor.

• 51:18Speaker 04

  Yes, uh, all right, uh, these guys are firing at the officers. All officers, stand back. These guys are firing at officers. All officers, get back to the air unit. The suspects are firing at all officers. Stay down, party air unit.

• 51:31Speaker 00

  As Emil made his way to the car, a bullet grazed him above the right eye. The wound was only a few millimeters away from killing him. Emil dropped to one knee behind the Chevrolet while he assessed the damage. He also had a gunshot wound to the calf. Once he realized he was okay, Emil jumped into their vehicle.

• 51:56Speaker 00

  Larry didn't seem too interested in getting in. He was still shooting at anything and everything. Many more officers had arrived on the scene and they were shooting at the offenders from multiple positions. Larry was shot at least three times in this exchange, but the body armor continued to protect him.

• 52:17Speaker 03

  This guy was getting ready to get in. One suspect has entered a white vehicle.

• 52:22Speaker 04

  One suspect has entered a white vehicle.

• 52:25Speaker 03

  Uh, the white vehicle that's, uh, the west, the white vehicle that's on the west side of, uh, the bank. One suspect is still firing at the officer to the rear location.

• 52:38Speaker 04

  All officers, stay down. One suspect is still firing at officers in the rear of the bank. One suspect has entered a white vehicle on the west side of the bank.

• 52:45Speaker 00

  While waiting for the SWAT team to arrive, the North Hollywood Watch Commander put a call out for any available officers to go to a B and B gun store and get some bigger guns that would have the ability to get through Larry and Emil's body armor.

• 53:00Speaker 03

  There's nothing we have that can stop him. To any unit that is available, to go to B and B and pick up some weapons.

• 53:09Speaker 04

  They're requesting someone to go to V A D and pick up weapons.

• 53:13Speaker 03

  15-10, do you have any body available to go to B and B guns?

• 53:17Speaker 04

  Hang on, SWAT unit, come in.

• 53:18Speaker 03

  15-41 is going to get B and B guns. Special agent, just go in.

• 53:23Speaker 04

  15-41 is going to get guns.

• 53:25Speaker 00

  A detective unit and a crash unit responded to the call. The store was closed when they arrived, but they managed to get staff to open up. The shop owner instructed his staff to give the LAPD whatever they wanted.

• 53:42Speaker 00

  As police reinforcements continued, Larry was taking more and more fire. He made his way back to the Chevrolet and swapped weapons.

• 53:57Speaker 04

  The suspect is retrieving additional weapons from the vehicle and shots are being fired. The suspect is walking along East of the bank, he's a dying devil to come after him. He's got additional weapons, the truck has opened on his vehicle.

• 54:09Speaker 00

  Why Larry didn't get into the car to start the getaway at this point, nobody knows. Instead, he took a knee in front of the Chevrolet, aimed upward, and started firing at the media helicopters.

• 54:24Speaker 00

  Larry was shot again, but the body armour was still holding up. He continued firing non-stop.

• 54:32Speaker 00

  Emil opened the passenger door, beckoning for Larry to get in, but Larry slammed the door shut. He was intent to stay outside the vehicle and provide covering fire.

• 54:45Speaker 04

  This guy is standing, if somebody has a shot, take it, suspect dead. One suspect is walking east of the bank, fifteen L ten advised, if someone has a shot, take it. Take it, this guy is not going down, he's got heavy body armour. Go for the head. The suspect has heavy body armour, the officers are firing at him and he's not going down.

• 55:05Speaker 00

  Despite taking multiple hits, Larry wasn't going down. The body armour was too effective. That left only one place for the police to aim. The call was put out, to aim for the head.

• 55:21Speaker 00

  Officer Whitfield had been keeping radio contact, but it was starting to get touch and go.

• 55:28Speaker 04

  We have an officer down Victory, west of Laurel Canyon, he needs help, call three, he is passing out.

• 55:36Speaker 04

  West of the one seventy freeway at Victory, the officer needs help immediately.

• 55:43Speaker 00

  Two officers who took action in response to the officer down calls were Anthony Kubunik and Todd Schmitz. While responding to Officer Whitfield's call, they instead came across Detective Angela's and Officer Guy, both wounded and still taking cover in the parking lot opposite the bank. Officer Kubunik grabbed Officer Guy and pulled him into their car, while Detective Angela's was able to get in herself. Officer Schmitz then reversed harshly out of the parking lot to get medical help.

• 56:16Speaker 00

  The SWAT team had arrived by this point and immediately got to work rescuing the other injured officers and civilians. They got hold of an armored car to assist in the rescue.

• 56:29Speaker 03

  120 advise units on the perimeter that the officer has rescued. Fire department has set up command post at fire station 89 and bringing in a helicopter to take about.

• 56:38Speaker 04

  Bring the officer when he's rescued to fire station 89, they have units standing by. Officer has been arrested down at Archwood and Lowell Canyon. He appears to be unconscious, he is down on the west side of the street.

• 56:54Speaker 04

  Officer that's down at Lowell Canyon, Archwood is unconscious.

• 57:02Speaker 04

  Shots are being fired still, the officer is down at Archwood and Lowell Canyon. 40 yards north of Archwood on Lowell Canyon, he's hiding about... Thirty yards north of Archwood on Lowell Canyon, the officer is down unconscious. 40 yards, the officer is behind the tree and he's got cover. The officer that's down has got cover behind the tree, the R S being notified, we're trying to get someone in for him.

• 57:28Speaker 04

  Truck coming in with... Stand by, everybody stand by. Everyone stand by, there's an armored car coming in full of police officers.

• 57:39Speaker 00

  Emil put the Chevrolet in motion, deciding it was time to attempt to leave.

• 57:48Speaker 04

  Suspect vehicle is moving.

• 57:50Speaker 00

  Slowly, Emil drove out of the parking lot with Larry walking alongside the vehicle and firing non-stop. Emil turned right onto Archwood Street and headed east while Larry was hit twice more.

• 58:06Speaker 00

  He sought refuge behind a large truck with a long trailer that was parked on the side of the road. Emil completely lost sight of Larry and continued driving east.

• 58:18Speaker 03

  We've got one suspect driving the white vehicle eastbound from the north parking lot. We've got one suspect on foot. The suspect on foot is behind a long, uh, trailer, truck trailer rig.

• 58:29Speaker 04

  Fifty out there, advise you, SWAT, moving in at two feet. SWAT is moving in. There's one suspect eastbound from the north side of the parking lot in a vehicle. The other one is on foot near the long trailer. SWAT is en route to sixty-six hundred Lowell Canyon across from Del Taco for the officer. The suspect is moving eastbound. They're moving eastbound near Archwood. The suspect is moving eastbound, eastbound near Archwood.

• 58:51Speaker 00

  Officer Torres had a clear shot of the Chevrolet and fired twelve bullets into it, prompting Emil to drive off, leaving Larry behind. One of Larry's gunshot wounds was bad enough that it would turn fatal if he didn't get help soon. To add to his problems, Larry's rifle had also jammed. He pulled out his Beretta pistol and started walking east.

• 59:17Speaker 04

  I go, suspect walking, walking at, uh, towards One Street east of, uh, Lowell Canyon. The suspect is walking towards One Street east of Lowell Canyon from Archwood.

• 59:28Speaker 00

  Way up ahead, Larry could see Emil in the Chevrolet, but Emil wasn't waiting. He had his own problems being pursued by other officers. At least seven officers stood in the path between Larry and the Chevrolet. He continued firing at the police with his Beretta, but he was shot yet again.

• 59:50Speaker 00

  By this point, he had suffered eleven gunshot wounds. The latest one struck him in the hand, causing him to drop the pistol. He picked it up off the ground, put it under his chin, and shot himself in the head.

• 1:00:06Speaker 00

  He died instantly. Larry Phillips Jr. was twenty-six years old.

• 1:00:18Speaker 00

  Meanwhile, up the road, Emil was still under fire himself, being closely followed by police on the ground and helicopters in the air. The Chevrolet was leaking fuel and its tyres were flat. Realising it wouldn't be drivable for much longer, Emil needed to swap cars. He was still driving east on Archwood Street when a red Ford sedan drove towards him. Seeing the shot-up vehicle with Emil behind the wheel, the red Ford started to reverse. Emil got out of his car and motioned for the red Ford to come back. It didn't, so Emil started firing at it.

• 1:01:00Speaker 03

  The suspect is in the white vehicle at Lamp, he's out of the vehicle, he's shooting at civilians.

• 1:01:06Speaker 04

  The suspect is out of the vehicle at Lamp, shooting at civilians.

• 1:01:10Speaker 00

  All of this was being caught on camera. Times were getting desperate for Emil and a getaway was looking close to impossible. He got back into the Chevrolet and just sat there, doing nothing. He did nothing for over ten seconds, before putting the Chevrolet into drive and continuing east along Archwood Street.

• 1:01:33Speaker 03

  The suspect is back in the white vehicle, he is now moving slowly east down between Lamp and back.

• 1:01:39Speaker 00

  Emil then found another target, a 1962 Jeep Gladiator being driven by a man named Bill Maher. Emil started firing through the windscreen of his vehicle into Bill's Jeep. This was enough for Bill to stop the Jeep and get out and run. Emil pulled up next to the Jeep. He got out of the Chevrolet, dumped all of his weapons and ammo into the Jeep, and then jumped behind the wheel and attempted to drive off. But, he couldn't get it started.

• 1:02:21Speaker 04

  The suspect took a citizen vehicle in a town car westbound on Archwood. Westbound, Archwood in a black truck.

• 1:02:27Speaker 00

  A police car containing three SWAT officers, Don Anderson, Steve Gomez, and Richard Masser, sped east down Archwood Street. Emil sat in the Jeep, facing west, meaning the officers were approaching head-on. Officer Anderson was driving. In an incredibly brave move, he drove straight at Emil, pulling the car up at an angle directly in front of the Jeep. When Emil saw the SWAT team pull up, he jumped out of the Jeep and took cover behind the Chevrolet. This put a distance of about thirty feet and three cars between him and the SWAT officers. A fierce gun battle ensued.

• 1:03:10Speaker 04

  Westbound, Archwood. They're firing, shots are being fired. More shots are being fired, shots are being fired. Shots being fired, trying to avoid them. Watch for crossfire! All units, watch for crossfire.

• 1:03:24Speaker 03

  On Archwood between Rappert and Heinz, Metro is engaging the suspect. All units, stay back.

• 1:03:30Speaker 04

  On Archwood between Rappert and Heinz, Air Unit advised all officers, stay back, watch for crossfire.

• 1:03:35Speaker 00

  Emil was struck several times, but his body armor saved him yet again. The SWAT team quickly realized that if they fired underneath the vehicles, they would be able to hit Emil in the legs, which weren't protected by armor. Their plan worked. Emil was shot multiple times in the legs, with one bullet actually shattering his leg. Still, he refused to give up and continued firing. But it was clear that SWAT were winning the battle. Emil was hit several more times, and eventually, he collapsed to the ground, dropping his weapon in the process. The SWAT team pounced on him.

• 1:04:19Speaker 00

  The entire exchange had lasted just under two minutes.

• 1:04:41Speaker 00

  The time was ten oh one AM. The North Hollywood shootout was over.

• 1:04:49Speaker 00

  But the scene was obviously still chaotic. Injured officers and civilians were everywhere. And the LAPD still wasn't entirely sure if all the gunmen had been caught or if there were others still on the loose. They started checking the scene and the surrounding area for more shooters, a job that would ultimately take them twelve hours to officially clear.

• 1:05:14Speaker 00

  All up, Emil had been shot twenty-nine times, but he was still breathing. Two detectives stood guard over him while other police cleared the area. But after sixty-five minutes, with an ambulance unable to get to him in time, Emil Madassaranu died at the scene. He was thirty years old.

• 1:05:37Speaker 00

  Later that same year, Emil's family filed a civil suit against the LAPD and specifically the two detectives who guarded him as he lay dying. The court case alleged that paramedics had been making their way to attend to Emil but had been turned away by police. It also alleged that an officer had cancelled the call for more paramedics and that ultimately, the police had deliberately let Emil die.

• 1:06:06Speaker 00

  In their defence, the LAPD explained that it was standard procedure not to allow any paramedics into what they called a "hot zone" as it put their lives in danger. Given that they believed there were more active shooters in the area at the time, the LAPD said they couldn't allow paramedics to attend to Emil for their own safety. The jury couldn't reach a verdict and the case resulted in a hung jury. After that, Emil's family ended up dropping the civil suit.

• 1:06:40Speaker 00

  During the North Hollywood shootout, over 300 police officers had responded to the citywide tactical alert, and 32 officers had fired their weapons. All up, Larry and Emil had fired about 1,100 rounds between them, while the police had fired around 650. Seventeen officers were awarded the Medal of Honour for their actions and bravery. A total of 11 police and seven civilians were injured during the shootout, but by some miracle, they all survived. The only people who lost their lives were Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Madassaranu.

• 1:07:24Speaker 04

  Our police units we have here are unusable, the black and whites are all blown up. All the black and whites at the location are unusable, they have shots fired.

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