Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. Help contribute to IMDb. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Several officers additionally equipped themselves with AR-15s and other semi-automatic rifles from a nearby firearms dealer. In the initial shooting, Phillips wounded Sgt. Walter Kennedy remembered seeing Emil on several occasions sitting outside the front door of the Sinaloa house cleaning his weapons. Larry Phillips met Emil Matasareanu at Gold's Gym in Venice. Finally, when the assault rifle became permanently jammed, Phillips discarded it and opened fire with a 9mm Beretta Model 92FS semiautomatic pistol. Haynes and Officer Whitfield, who were both wounded and had only marginal cover behind trees across Laurel Canyon Blvd. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. The only thing that makes Emil relevant is his relation to the shootout, which has already been addressed. Viorel, went to work for a local Pasadena company, Gilbert Engineering. Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography: I still think this article shouldn't exist. North Hollywood shootout gunman Emil Matasareanu smiling for the camera, 1997. Soon, they began to move back to their Chevrolet Celebrity for their getaway; at that point, Mtsreanu was shot twice in the right buttock and the left forearm. Almost a month later, on May 31 at 10:05 a.m., Phillips and Mtsreanu robbed another Bank of America-owned bank and left with $794,200, leaving two bank tellers injured. Matasareanu, who was driving down Archwood Street and attempting to commandeer a passing pickup truck, was shot by SWAT officers about 9:55 a.m. Matasareanu was incapacitated by officers three blocks away and subsequently bled to death, before the arrival of paramedics more than an hour later. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. On February 28, 1997, at 9:15 AM, Emil Dechebal Matasareanu and Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr, walked into a Bank of America in Van Nuys, California on Laurel Canyon Boulevard not far from the Disney, Universal and Warner. On the year following the shootout, a total of nineteen officers involved in the shootout (including those injured by Phillips and Mtsreanu) received the Los Angeles Police Medal of Valor for their heroic actions and also met then-President Bill Clinton. Substituted at 14:25, 29 April 2016 (UTC). One of two bank robbers who perpetrated the infamous Bank of America robbery on February 28, 1997. Phillips' family was apparently well-functioning and normal, although Phillips Sr.'s association with small criminal enterprises affected the younger Phillips' life. This robbery, in which Phillips and Mtsreanu had a flaw in their initial plan, would later become a foreshadowing to the event that would happen in North Hollywood. Sometime on December, Phillips and Mtsreanu were sentenced to 99 days and 71 days in prison, respectively, plus 36 days of probation for each of the two. Smile though your heart is achingSmile even though it's breakingWhen there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by. The polices .38 and 9mm rounds were simply not able to penetrate the assailants armor. Arriving at the Bank of America-owned bank at 6600 Laurel Canyon Boulevard in a blue 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity that had been sprayed white, the two exited the car at 9:17 a.m. after taking phenobarbital, a muscle-relaxing drug that was prescribed to Mtsreanu as an anti-convulsant, to calm themselves and walked towards the bank, both armed with one Chinese-made Norinco Type 56 Sporter assault rifle each and wearing bulletproof body armor suits. A cinder block wall provided relative cover for several detectives shooting at Phillips with their 9mm pistols. It was. Larry Phillips and Emil Matasareanu during a 1996 bank robbery in Van Nuys, California But Phillips and Matasareanu had done far more than simply steal money. REAL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION 90s were wild. [citation needed], Mtsreanu's vehicle was rendered inoperable after two of its tires were shot out and the windshield covered in bullet holes. And that would be the next piece of the puzzle. Ambulances were unable to arrive and save him due to all out carnage in the area. The bank was expected. Phillips was shot 11 times, including his self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chin while Mtsreanu was shot 29 times.[4]. (Arabic) etina (Czech) Dansk (Danish) Deutsch (German) English (English) The two were arrested and identified through DNA fingerprinting. Meyer and her husband Steven later dropped by at the house to take a look at it when they ran into the owner, who confirmed the house wasn't for rent but was on sale and that the firm REMAX was the authorized seller. Police likely shot Phillips with their handguns while Phillips was still firing and taking cover near the four vehicles adjacent to the North wall of the bank (gray Honda Civic, Ford Explorer, white Acura Legend, and Chevrolet Celebrity). Mtsreanu boarded the Chevrolet and started its engine while Phillips decided to cover him with a Heckler & Koch M91A3 semiautomatic rifle. On May 2 of the same year, the two made their escalation to personally robbing banks instead of armored cars when they stormed into a bank owned by Bank of America at Los Angeles' Van Nuys sometime before 10:00 a.m., armed with, again, automatic weapons. I was living with one of them and I remember it like it was yesterday. [28], After LAPD radio operators received the second "officer down" call from police at the shootout, a tactical alert was issued. Pathology The rumblings in Romania had started some two years earlier in Brasov, a protest march in the middle of an achingly cold winter was staged by workers of Steagul Rou (The Red Flag truck factory). Mtsreanu fell and surrendered to authorities. The two robbers were confronted by LAPD officers when they exited the bank and a shootout between the officers and robbers ensued. 1997 North Hollywood Shootout Autopsy report on Larry Phillips Jr. & Emil Matasareanu They also dress in homemade bulletproof vests that are designed to protect them from standard caliber bullets. Phillips used the following firearms in order: A Norinco Type 56 S1 semiautomatic rifle converted to fire automatically with 75- to 100-round drum magazines and 30-round box magazines. September 20, 1970 (Phillips)July 19, 1966 (Mtsreanu) Movies. [15] The pair were dubbed the "High Incident Bandits" by investigators due to the weaponry they had used in three robberies prior to their attempt in North Hollywood.[4]. Page contents not supported in other languages. In an informal Q&A that we conducted with Kenny back in 2009 he had the following to say about Emil. The North Hollywood shootout was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mtsreanu, and members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in the North Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California, United States on February 28, 1997.Both robbers were killed, twelve police officers and eight civilians were injured, and numerous . In the same year, Sharon Santos had been impregnated with his own son. One particular firearm a short-barreled AR-15 with an aftermarket red dot sight was later released from evidence for use by a law enforcement agency. The business struggled to get off the ground, southern California was after all the playground for computer sciences with Silicon Valley being only three hundred miles to the north in San Francisco. I think he knew he was gonna die. Had his criminal career been more sustained, or had he achieved notoriety prior to the shootout, there would be a case for a separate article. Officer Farell issued a call on the radio: "15-A-43, requesting assistance, we have a possible 211 in progress at the Bank of America." Phillips and Mtsreanu both wore aramid-made body armor to withstand police gunfire. 'Trey' recalls one ocassion where Emil had applied to a Chuck 'E Cheese's (which was ShowBiz Pizza Place at the time) as a game repair technician and aced their electronics test, although it is unknown why Emil was never hired for the job. Was this the place that they met? who fitted a Bassani exhaust and a carburettor jet kit. However, due to a change in the bank's delivery schedule, the vault contained significantly less than the $750,000 the gunmen had expected. The accuracy of these facts are truly unknown, as the charges dropped varied depending on sources for NorthHollywoodShootout.com, Ages are listed as being at the time of the shootout, Real Criminals Referenced in Season Seven, 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out, National Geographic documentary on YouTube, Article about Phillips and Mtsreanu's deaths and the shootout, Article about the shootout's 20th anniversary, LAPD Online's list of 19 LAPD officers involved in the shootout awarded with the Los Angeles Police Medal of Valor, TheFreeLibrary.com article about Mtsreanu's final words to officers, RCDSA.org, a website about the Norco shootout. But the North Hollywood robbery was to be their biggest yet. He and Emil have took an interest in weightlifting and bodybuilding. They made a tv movie about this! Relocating to Los Angeles, California, the family instantly settled into the new, larger house, which Mtsreanu was especially fascinated with. He gained a membership at the Gold's Gym and maintained it for five years. They are: The second bank parking lot shootings by both shooters: The shootings along Archwood Street by Mtsreanu: Phillips and Mtsreanu both bear some similarities to five men who perpetrated a shootout with Norco, California police officers on May 9, 1980, in an event known as the "Norco shootout". He soon discarded the rifle after firing a few more times one-handedly and utilized a Norinco Type 56 S1 assault rifle. It was the 17th of December 1989. Officers rescue Officer Stuart Guy with one of the police cars. However, aramid body armor worn by Phillips and Mtsreanu covered all of their vitals (except their heads), enabling them to absorb pistol bullets and shotgun pellets, while Mtsreanu's chest armor, thanks to a steel armor plate, successfully withstood a hit from a SWAT officer's AR-15. Phillips and Mtsreanu had robbed at least two other banks using similar methods for entry past "bullet-proof" security doors, taking control of the entire bank, and firing weapons illegally modified to enable fully-automatic fire. It is known he had several close friends and many casual acquaintances at the time, why would they not attend if this event happened? Find family history information in a whole new way. Emil 'sort of laughed' and said he had been saving money. It was for firearms left in an unguarded state. Food rations, which were as low as 300 grams of bread per person per day at that point, were cut even further. Held at an initial bail of $1,000,000, Phillips was soon released from custody after his wife Sharon withdrew her life savings of $10,000, which resulted in the decrease of the bail amount. However, he had difficulties in riding the bike and was always "left in the dust" by Perez and his group of friends. Henricus Antonius " Han " van Meegeren ( Dutch pronunciation: [nriks ntonijs m vn mer (n)]; 10 October 1889 - 30 December 1947) [1] was a Dutch painter and portraitist, considered one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century. Eventually, Phillips walked out of the house and fled. This guy looks so much like a heavier Edward Furlong 68.43.111.52 10:01, 19 August 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], Shouldn't his birth name be included? When officers surrounded him, he called himself Pete and taunted them to kill him. Kennedy would later describe Emil as a 'misfit', as 'somebody who try as he might just could not blend into Californian culture' but thought of him as a 'pretty good guy.'. It doesn't appear in any feeds, and anyone with a direct link to it will see a message like this one. The robbers allegedly filled a jam jar with gasoline and placed it in the back seat with the intention of setting the car and weapons on fire to destroy evidence after the robbery. On February 28, 1997, Phillips and Mtsreanu committed the actions that gained them widespread infamy across the country. Either bullet may have been fatal. As he fell, Officer John Caprarelli shot him in the upper torso, severing his spine. 110 likes,TikTok-video van tefan cel Mare (@emil_matasareanu.1): "#matei_tatar #rxf #k_1 #pittbulatodiresei #interlopiromaniei #5pasidebine #flory#neveuovidiu". In 1983, Mtsreanu enrolled into the DeVry Institute of Technology, specifically a three-year course in Electronics Engineering. His interests eventually widened, exemplified when he purchased a red 1983 Kawasaki GPz-550 motorbike that was modified by local mechanic Kenny Perez. Read More Contact Emil Matasareanu's Phone Number and Email Last Update 11/8/2022 10:53 PM Email e***@tron.solar Engage via Email Contact Number Engage via Phone Mobile Number Get started U.S. Public Records Index. Police fired back and Phillips was soon shot in the right hand, causing him to accidentally drop his pistol. Emil Decebal Mtsreanu. Both men are released from court due to time served on remand, but both now have felony convictions on their record which would preclude them from firearm ownership, a point that would become important later on. The coroner's autopsy report gives his time of. As KCBS and KCAL helicopters hovered overhead, a patrol car driven by SWAT officers Donnie Anderson, Steve Gomez, and Richard Massa quickly arrived and stopped on the opposite side of the truck to where the Chevrolet was stopped. The Meyers carried it out the next day with the help of an undercover Detective Hogan, and when Phillips arrived, he was arrested. If the event was bigger and more complex then maybe there should be something about it here, but barring that then at most it should note he was one of the two involved. Certified Akashic Record Reader & Life Coach. Phillips Sr. continued to play a role in his son's life, taking him out to shooting ranges, wrestling matches, and the Rocky Mountains. Perhaps it was due to his immigration status, but we can only speculate. Shooting Dean Haynes, Officers Martin Whitfield, James Zaboravan, and Stuart Guy, and Detectives William Krulac and Tracey Angeles, as well as three civilians that had taken cover behind Sgt. No. The revolution was to end nine days later, on Christmas Day, after the Ceauescu's arrest and subsequent short lived trial in a school room and the summary execution minutes later by a four man military firing squad. [44] Also as a result of this incident LAPD authorized its officers to carry .45 ACP caliber semi-automatic pistols as duty sidearms, specifically the Smith & Wesson Models 4506 and 4566. [4], Mtsreanu, enraged at this development, argued with Villigrana and demanded more. Share 0. Birth Date They are: Four injured by a 128-degree arc of gunfire. A total of 32 customers and 10 employees were present in the bank when the two men entered it. Mtsreanu fired at Marr, wounding him and forcing him to flee on foot; he tried to get into the house of 69-year-old Dora Lubjensky, who thought he was an intruder and called police, leading them to briefly assume afterwards that Marr was a possible third gunman. [16] Mtsreanu wore only a Type IIIA bulletproof vest, but included a metal ballistic plate to protect vital organs. Preceding unsigned comment added by Kurtfetherolf (talk contribs) 20:22, 26 May 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply], I don't feel that the neutrality of this article is in question. Reply to this topic. sunet original - tefan cel Mare. Wikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography, 2017 Bishop International Airport incident, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Emil_Dechebal_Matasareanu&oldid=717753019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This redirect does not require a rating on the project's. During the North Hollywood shootout and presumably their other robberies, the two were armed with the following weapons: Crime scene photo of the Bushmaster XM15 E2S "Dissipator" rifle used by Mtsreanu. Phillips eventually took up a hobby of bodybuilding, planning to become "the next Arnold Schwarzenegger or Lou Ferrigno". He would soon develop anger and attitude problems from the issues going on around him; on one occasion swinging a chainsaw in his next-door neighbor's face because the neighbor's dog walked onto his lawn. Villigrana obliged and began to fill the robbers' money bag. 257; Robinson, pg. See who you know in common. One of two bank robbers who perpetrated the infamous Bank of America robbery on February 28, 1997. On February 28, 1997, at 9:15 AM, Emil Dechebal Matasareanu and Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr, walked into a Bank of America in Van Nuys, California on Laurel Canyon Boulevard not far from the Disney, Universal and Warner. 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