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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. Both robbers were killed, twelve police officers and eight ...
North Hollywood shootout: North Hollywood: 1997-2-28: 2: 20: Bank robbery and subsequent shootout Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting: Granada Hills and Chatsworth: 1999-08-10: 1: 5: anti-Semitic terrorist attack by Aryan Nations member 2001 Nevada County shootings: Nevada County: 2001-01-10: 3 3: Shooting spree Santana High School ...
The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and both SWAT and patrol officers in North Hollywood on February 28, 1997. It began when responding North Hollywood Division patrol officers engaged Phillips and Mătăsăreanu leaving a ...
North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States: 2 [note 2] 20 22: Cameras on helicopters, news cameras North Hollywood shootout: Two heavily armed bank robbers opened fire on LAPD units following a botched robbery of the North Hollywood branch of Bank of America, injuring 12 police officers and 8 civilians. One of the bank robbers ...
Jackson and Taylor were killed by a police officer during a shootout with a man wielding a rifle, who police believed was Jackson. Police were unable to recover their bodies for more than an hour. [205] Taylor, Anthony (31) 1992-04-29: Harrison, DeAndre (17) California (Los Angeles)
A still from police body camera footage of a shootout between a suspect and Volusia County, Florida sheriff's deputies in 2019. A shootout, also called a firefight, gunfight, or gun battle, is an armed confrontation entailing firearms between armed parties using guns, always entailing one or more intense disagreements between the involved parties.
The 1997 North Hollywood shootout had a profound effect on law enforcement agencies. Local patrol officers at the time were typically armed with their standard issue 9×19mm pistols or .38 Special revolvers, while some had a pump-action 12-gauge shotgun available in their cars.
XM-15 rifles were also used in the 1997 North Hollywood shootout, [20] the 2018 Nashville Waffle House shooting, [21] and the 2022 Buffalo shooting. [22] An XM15-E2 was captured from Islamic State fighters in Sinjar Mountains by Peshmerga during the Iraqi Civil War. [1]