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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.
Phillips, and later also Mătăsăreanu, exits the bank and begins shooting at the police, damaging cars and destroying a locksmith's shed in the parking lot. The police return fire, but find their 9 mm caliber Beretta 92 pistols cannot penetrate their body armor, and are unable to aim for weak points due to the robbers' heavy suppressive fire ...
Shooting spree in which five were killed and 18 injured at 8 crime scenes [50] 39: Yountville shooting: Yountville: 2018-03-08: 5: Murder-suicide shooting at Veterans Home of California [51] 40: Thousand Oaks shooting: Thousand Oaks: 2018-11-07: 13: Mass shooting at Borderline Bar and Grill [52] 41: Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: Gilroy: 2019 ...
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The prior largest cash robbery in Los Angeles was on Sept. 12, 1997, with the theft of $18.9 million from the former site of the Dunbar Armored facility on Mateo Street. Those behind the incident ...
Johnny Madison "The Shootist" Williams Jr. (born January 19, 1951) is one of the most successful bank robbers in American history. After his arrest on July 9, 1994, Williams confessed to 56 bank robberies across the states of California, Texas, and Washington state over an eight-year period, beginning in 1986, usually with the help of his wife, Carolyn, usually known as Carol.
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