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The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily-armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips, Jr. and Emil Matasareanu, and patrol and SWAT officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, California on February 28, 1997. Phillips and Matasareanu engaged responding patrol officers in a firefight when they attempted to leave the bank they had just robbed; sixteen officers and civilians were wounded before both of them were shot down.
Phillips and Matasareanu arrived at the Bank of America branch office at the intersection of Laurel Canyon Blvd. and Archwood St. in North Hollywood around 9:17 a.m., and set their watch alarms for 8 minutes, which was the amount of time they estimated it would take for law enforcement officials to respond. (Phillips had been using a radio scanner to listen to police transmissions.)10 As they walked into the bank, however, dressed in dark clothes from head to toe and armed with an assault rifle each, a patrol car of the LAPD was driving down Laurel Canyon—and the officers in the car radioed in a possible 211, code for an armed robbery.11 Inside the bank, Phillips and Matasareanu forced the assistant manager to open the vault; they fired at least 100 rounds to scare those inside the bank so that there would be no resistance.12 They were able to get just over $300,000, since that day's money delivery had not yet arrived.8 At 9:38 a.m., Phillips exited the bank through its north doorway, Matasareanu exited through its south doorway, and they encountered dozens of LAPD patrol officers who had arrived after the first-responding officers radioed a "shots fired" call.13
Phillips and Matasareanu engaged the officers in a firefight, spraying armor-piercing (full metal jacket) rounds into the patrol cars that had been positioned on Laurel Canyon in front of the bank. The patrol officers were armed with standard Beretta 92FS 9 mm pistols and .38 caliber revolvers, and some also carried Ithaca 12-gauge pump-action shotguns, but the body armor worn by Phillips and Matasareanu was strong enough to withstand them.8 Multiple officers and civilians were wounded in the 7 minutes between when the shooting began and Matasareanu entered their white sedan to make a getaway; Phillips remained outside of the vehicle and continued firing upon the police.8 A TAC (tactical) alert was issued, and 18 minutes after the shooting had begun, a SWAT team—armed with automatic weapons—arrived in response to the alert and engaged Phillips and Matasareanu; they also commandeered an armored truck which they used to extract wounded civilians and officers who were pinned down.8 A nearby gun shop, B&B Sales owned by Bob Kahn, provided the outgunned officers with multiple rifles, including Colt AR-15s, the civilian version of the American M-16 rifle. None of the borrowed rifles were used in the shootout, however they were not immediately returned to the store either.14
Map of the area around the Bank of America (blue) and events during the shootout. A red "X" marks the spot where Phillips and Matasareanu were shot down.
Map of the area around the Bank of America (blue) and events during the shootout. A red "X" marks the spot where Phillips and Matasareanu were shot down.
At 9:51 a.m., Phillips, who had been using the getaway vehicle as cover, split up from Matasareanu, turned east on Archwood St., and continued to fire at the police with his AKM.15 He reloaded the assault rifle with a 100-round drum magazine shortly before he was shot in the left thumb, which may have prevented him from removing the shell that caused a stovepipe malfunction in his AKM.8 He set it down, pulled out a Beretta pistol, and continued firing at the police with his unwounded right hand. He dropped the pistol and picked it up, and shortly thereafter, Phillips placed the muzzle of his pistol under his chin and apparently shot himself while a round from a police sniper's rifle simultaneously severed his spine.16 The question remains as to whether Phillips intentionally committed suicide or accidentally squeezed the trigger when his spine was severed while attempting to reload his weapon one-handed.17
Matasareanu's vehicle was rendered nearly inoperable after its tires were blown out.8 At 9:56 a.m., he commandeered a pickup truck on Archwood, three blocks east of where Phillips was shot down, and transferred all of his weapons and ammunition from the getaway car to the truck.18 However, Matasareanu was unable to start the truck since its owner had taken the keys with him when he fled.8 A patrol car driven by SWAT officers quickly arrived—Matasareanu left the truck, took cover behind the original getaway car, and engaged them immediately. At least one SWAT officer fired his M-16 below the cars and wounded Matasareanu in his unprotected lower legs, and he soon surrendered.8 The police radioed for an ambulance, but Matasareanu succumbed to his wounds by the time the ambulance had reached the scene.
Most of the incident, including the death of Phillips and the capture of Matasareanu, was captured on tape by news helicopters that hovered over the scene and televised the action as events unfolded.19 Over 300 various law enforcement officers had responded to the city-wide TAC alert.20 By the time the shooting had stopped, Phillips and Matasareanu had fired about 1,300 rounds.8 Phillips was hit 11 times, including the self-inflicted shot to the head; Matasareanu was hit 29 times, and died from shock caused by blood loss.19
The North Hollywood Shootout happened on my birthday.
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The North Part of Orange County CA that is considered "ghetto" to south OC residents because the average home price is only 600,000$ but to most of the world this is still expensive. There are generally lower income areas such as westminster, garden grove, placentia, buena park, and anaheim. BUT NOT ENTIRELY TRUE. the wealthy communites in north OC include Seal Beach, Rossmoor(where i live), Yorba Linda, Parts of Anaheim(hills), Tustin and Parts of Orange and Parts of Huntington Beach. I would rather live in North OC because it is closer to all of the things that are in LA county.
North OC RULES!
South OC resident : So where do you live?
Me: I live in North Orange County.
South OC resident: oh isn't that Ghetto?
Me: You're a Dumbass...
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land of the ooga boogas who still use leaves to wipe
did you hear about the mongs on the north sentinel island
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The North End Connections are a musical group, call them rap if you want... but they are just a bunch of natives, singing songs about how drunk, dirty and stupid natives are. They are from Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, native central.
Their name comes from the area of town that most dirty natives come from, the North End, the shittiest part of Winnipeg, besides Transcona.
Their most popular song is "The RCMP always chases me", it talks about the every day activities of a stinky native, huffin gas, robbin shit, curb stompin white kids, shaking babies and so forth.
If you want to hear this hilarity go on Limewire and search them up, songs are; "the RCMP always chases me", "Imtermission" and "100 natives runnin".
North End Connections
The RCMP always chases me:
Once apon a time
it happened last week,
oh yeah....
(police sirens....)
You hear something?
ah fuck, Dammit!
fuckin busted again
...okay what did i do?
Whatever fuck!
The RCMP is always chasin me and i have no fuckin clue why,
Jesus Fuck!
The more the more the more gas that i huff it fuckin makes me insane,
and then i do these stupid things and have nobody to blame;
like robbing liquor stores and fuckin punchin old ladies, curb stompin whities, slappin bitches and shakin their babies!-
-Cause im an indian, thats right hundred percent creee
i hang out downtown in a bus shack always drinkin OV,
Nice fuckin shoes you dont mind if i try them on, HOLY SHIT THE FUCKIN FIT - naii boy consider em gone!
I put the nate back into native i dont know my own name
drunk as a skunk cant even walk and always feelin the same
im always puking cause im hammared passin out on a bench
Holy Jesus fuckin god what is that stench...? me.
The RCMP always chasing me cause im a smelly fuckin native and i cant even see!
The RCMP always chasing me cause i beat up my wife with the branch from a tree!
The RCMP is always chasing me cause i stole six cases of Mr. Clean!
The RCMP always chasing me becasue i stink. naii.
Naiii Boy........
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Sanford North Carolina is a town you’ve probably passed through to get to either Raleigh, Southern Pines, or Fayetteville. If you’re a local teen there, your exciting saturday night consists of going to walmart to literally just walk around, go to one of the 3 mcdonalds within the same 5 mile vicinity, or going to smoke weed in the kiwanis park parking lot. you’ll find plenty of mexicans and inbreds while in sanford. the local hipsters like to drink shitty coffee at karmas and take aesthetic pictures in depot park. the rednecks can be found in the kendale parking lot smoking weed, cigarettes, and revving up their trucks for no reason. fine dining in sanford is either elizabeth’s or san felipe. lee senior is the bigger highschool with all the gay kids and theatre nerds and ghetto kids. southern lee is full of inbreds and privileged white kids from west lee county.
“Where can I find some real life cousin fuckers?”
“Sanford, North Carolina.”
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A school in St. Charles, Missouri. It is filled with drugs and horrible atrocities. Some even say that the school was used in the 1940s as a Japanese internment camp. It is said you can still hear the screams of the dead. It also literally got a shooting threat from a furry.
Francis Howell North: Drugs, Death, and FUCKING FURRIES.
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The act of stuffing a mouse up your ass and running through a cotton field
"Man, I tried the North Carolina Mouse yesterday and it was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had!"
"I herd that he tried the North Carolina Mouse. Man, I wish I was that daring"