It had been stolen from a vehicle on his drive around New Years and not been seen again until the morning of the robbery. It would not be surprising that a round had found him when he hit that dirt median, video footage shows rounds striking around his body for upwards of an additional four seconds once he went down, so why is this relevant I hear you asking? You cant imagine how manipulative my brother was, he said. He was born under an alias, the brother said. Taking this into account we are left with the fact that Phillips was walking to his death at 09:56am carrying eight separate bullet strikes that had caused at least fifteen wounds (although only eleven wounds are recorded on the autopsy these do not account for entry/exit, entry/exit/re-entry style of wounds of which there were several). Forty nine miles to the southeast back at the Pepperdale Drive address a second search was conducted and this time bore more troubling fruit. When the robbers emerged, they were confronted by officers and tried to shoot their way clear with superior firepower. The robbers had five fully automatic weapons: three Norico 7.62-by-39-millimeter Chinese Model 56S-1 assault rifles; a Heckler and Koch .308-caliber Model 91; and a .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle, Model XM15-ES2. The shootout didn't end there for Caprarelli. But he never appeared for sentencing and remained a fugitive. At 9.16am, after months of preparation, the pair entered the North Hollywood Bank of America branch. When invited to join in the 'game', Matasareanu apparently hurried left the property with the laughter of the brothers chasing him to the gate. 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out AZ Movies. It is to this house we shall return momentarily. His left ankle had been broken by gunfire, as had his left knee, and like Phillips he had a large chunk of flesh (measured at some six inches long) chewed out of his wrist/forearm by gunfire, blinded in the right eye, with multiple gunshot wounds to his buttocks, hips and thighs it would be totalled that he was carrying twenty nine different wounds. Larry didnt like the way American women always talked back.. So here, Ill give you the money I was going to give her. He gave me five hundred-dollar bills, the elder Phillips said. Matasareanu, driving a leased 1995 Lincoln Town Car without insurance, got a speeding ticket on his way home from Las Vegas. On paper he appeared to have an upwardly mobile business, allegedly with seven employees and retaining government contracts according to the paperwork Matasareanu filled out. On Sunday, Los Angeles police added one new increment to the slowly emerging story, disclosing new details of the weaponry the two men carried in the North Hollywood holdup. Friday saw Phillips Sr interviewed in Denver. In that case, Matasareanu and Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. served less than four months in jail after striking a plea bargain that cut a conspiracy and weapons case to a handful of misdemeanors. Phillips address and Federico were still a thing of mystery to LAPD and FBI. He spoke of Jr's visit late the previous year, arriving in a black Town Car and taking him and his two daughters out to a local steak house for dinner. It was from the kiosk, once positioned directly across from the north bank door, where Zboravan had nicked Phillips with his shotgun. Weight: 130 pounds The bank was expected to have more than $750,000 to accommodate a Friday payday. The clock ticked relentlessly. He said, All you guys are alike, the system is all screwed up, Smith said. At 9:17 a.m., they pulled up to the North Hollywood bank and synchronized their watches to account for an anticipated 8-minute LAPD response time once they entered. Glendale again forwarded their suspicions to both the FBI and LAPD RHD (Robbery Homicide Division). The two men sprayed bullets at police and other people before they were fatally shot in a battle that left 16 officers and civilians injured and stunned the nation with its live, televised pictures. "For eight months, I didn't sleep during the night.". Shoot me in the head. Investigative teams got the wrong end of the stick and would pursue and investigate one Larry Santos from Decatur, Georgia who was a musician and had absolutely zero connection to the now infamous bank robber. He became an expert and programmed arcade and video games, eventually earning a degree from DeVry Institute, Nicolescu said. His first idol was his father, a Denver resident who authorities said has a long record of arrests. Though never charged locally for fraud, Phillips maintained a residence in Denver as well, and was convicted there in 1992 of a swindle in which he rented out vacant houses he did not own. He didnt like society.. Detectives and officer taking cover behind bullet-riddled black and white and detective vehicles. He said Phillips would take him on the drives to motivate him. All Rights Reserved |. Twenty years ago today, on Feb. 28, 1997, two men armed with fully automatic weapons and clad in heavy body armor did more than rob the Bank of America at 6600 Laurel Canyon Blvd. A civil-rights lawsuit later filed on behalf of Matasareanu's two young children alleged he was deliberately allowed to bleed to death. Although the brother said Phillips had a difficult childhood, the son still looked up to his father, and, on coming of age, changed his name back to Phillips. Characteristics: Caucasian female with brown hair and brown eyes. The North Hollywood siege ended at 10:01 a.m. As the gunfire suddenly ceased in front of her Archwood home, Anna Kazanchyan crouched inside with her two young children watching it play out on TV. Like drugged. He had a wife and two children. The gunmen in "Heat" had nothing on these two. . The robbers, clad in cut-up Kevlar, emptied their clips, sending hot rounds through concrete walls, iron fences, dozens of cars and through the walls of a nearby ice cream parlor and pizza joint. Sources disclosed that the FBI, even before Friday's incident, had been looking into the possibility that the two extraordinarily lucrative bank robberies in the San Fernando Valley last May were the work of an organized group with connections to political or terroristic groups. Lots more to come. "I think it's like a movie," said store manager Eim Tang. Zboravan says he testified in that trial. From this same property was also recovered an AR15, an AKM, a pistol grip shotgun, two 'bulletproof' vests and a selection of 'paramilitary literature', which is believed to have been publications from Paladin Press. One of the bandits, Emil Dechebal Matasareanu, had been upset because he and his wife had recently separated, and because he had been falsely accused of mistreating elderly and disabled people . A cache of weapons was also discovered. Clare Carey as Frank's Wife. Many aspects of the brothers assessment were echoed by Phillips father, Larry Eugene Phillips Sr., who spoke glowingly of his son in an interview with The Times on Sunday, calling him a criminal genius and the bravest man in the world, with a taste for the ostentatious and a hatred for police. ``He said, `I cant take it any more, this life. He did everything to succeed. Clothes, a dresser, a number of unassembled weapon parts (believed to be the AR-15 upper receivers later displayed), and in the garage, a dark blue 1995 Buick Century. Inside, they located the missing money that Larry and Emil had stolen in previous robberies. The brother, who asked that his name be withheld, described scary outings in which Phillips would drive him through the streets of wealthy neighborhoods and then park outside the homes of the well-known to watch them come and go, visualizing himself in their places. Eleven officers were wounded, but none killed. Or were they just setting the stage for what they would be getting into? Some SWAT members had been working out at the LAPD academy and arrived in gym shorts and bulletproof vests. The most obvious example is the 'armor piercing ammunition' myth which originated from Sgt. The first search of this property would reveal 500 rounds of ammunition of an undisclosed calibre, a revolver, stun guns and blank identification documents. It has never been proven but could seem to be a possibility; however the first robbery tentatively attributed to this pair was not until July 1993 so a further question must be asked: Were they active much earlier than ever believed? In a 1993 probation report, Phillips said his parents divorced when he was 10. They hadn't spoken since July. An injured Phillips took his own life and Matasareanu surrendered, but bled out at the scene. In it they found both more and less than they ever expected. For their heroism, 19 officers would receive medals of valor.Advertisement, One seriously wounded officer who later quit the force to become a minister said: "I heard the devil; he told me: 'You're gonna die, you're gonna die.' You must fight on. Tradesmen had worked all over the weekend patching the holes and damage, come Monday morning the only change to be noticed, apart from the cameras of the media, was the eight security personnel as opposed to the usual two. For his trouble, he later suffered nightmares and a nervous tic in one eye. When his gun jammed and he was no longer able to advance, he shot himself. The story of her Labrador, D.O.G, who was wounded in the muzzle during the heated gun battle was also published. This was apparently done out of deference for her son being killed only five days previous. They pointed out he wore a $500 suit, $200 shoes and a Rolex on his arm worth thousands of dollars, Phillips Sr. said. The bank was expected. The vehicle appears to have been partly modified for drag strip racing. There was little external evidence of the horrendous trauma that had been inflicted upon Matasareanu's body. The business had never taken off in any form, stories of Matasareanu schlepping his accounting software for budget prices whilst dressed in flip flops and baggy sweat pants have been given to us first hand. In various areas of the city certain people were pretty sure they had seen these two before. Despite having sustained some extraordinarily serious wounds during his final confrontation with the three SWAT officers his body appeared to be that of one in repose, except for the blood masking the right hand side of his face he genuinely looked like a person sleeping. "It was like the movie 'Heat,' bullets spraying everywhere," recalled Lantz, now a corporal, while revisiting the scene. Jim Carson of the Orange Police Department said Phillips showed no tension when disarmed and gave a plausible explanation, that he was picking up a large sum of money and needed protection. Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Matasareanu shot at everything in their path including police, bystanders, and a news helicopter in an attempt to get away. "We ran away from Iraqi bombs and came here.". Matasareanu's credit checks kicked back his mother's house as a last known residence (although he had resided at three other properties at least since moving out). The last eight months had brought a rash of troubles to Emil. The brother also became his victim, finding that his brother was using his name and Social Security number as his aliases. Jeanette would wait a little longer, her situation was a little more complex, but Monday March 3rd was the last day she paid rent on the Anaheim property. When Emil had left DeVry University in 1987 with his electrical engineering degree in hand he had gone straight to building a business. LAPD Commander, Tim McBride released a quote stating that Phillips and Matasareanu's potential ties to paramilitary groups was being investigated, a route that the FBI would also later explore, both explorations garnered zero results. I wouldnt say he was a criminal genius, the brother said, but he was very intelligent. Emil Dechebal Matasareanu, 30, was a scraggly haired, 283-pound native of Romania who suffered painful seizures after being struck in the head by a mental patient at his mother's home-operated day-care center. In recent years he lived with her on and off in her Glendale apartment, neighbors there said, but she moved into a rest home and died in 1994, having cut all contact with her nine brothers and sisters. Records show that young Phillips went on to leave a dizzying web of aliases and nonexistent addresses in an apparent effort to deflect anyone looking for him. During the robberies, they wielded machine guns and exhibited military tactics. 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We are sure it must have been investigated but any official register of such an investigation is beyond our view at this time. Even Matasareanus choice of a wife fell under Phillips influence, he said. Emil Decebal Mtsreanu era decis s lupte pn moare. Ten years apart, two people completely unconnected with each other who have never spoken to each other and were almost certainly never aware of each other's existence told us the exact same piece of information. The gun battle lasted 44 minutes. These are errant police rounds from during the SWAT engagement with Matasareanu. As previously mentioned it soon became apparent that the two 1996 takeovers in the southern end of the San Fernando Valley had been the work of these two, CCTV and modus operandi was a faultless match. . After dropping her daughter off at school she had returned home and started cleaning the house. Outside of the hive of activity that was the investigation into these two men, back in the public realm the previous day's chaos was on everybody's lips. Out back, their bullet-ridden getaway car, a destroyed LAPD black-and-white, and an armored car that helped rescue cops and civilians gathers crowds. Phillips walks point with Matasareanu dragging the laden money bag in the May 1996 Van Nuys robbery. The centre of the chest of his T-shirt bore a ragged hole, a reminder to anyone who looked of just how close Officer Richard Zielinksi's shot could have come to ending Friday's chaos. But while beating a retreat, he took a bullet in the knee and collapsed in the strip mall driveway. Denver Gestopo units terminate a man for no reason, then plant a gun to say he pointed a gun at them. "Who's the doctor? In anguished recollections, the brother characterized Phillips as a secretive, controlling figure who manipulated almost every aspect of Matasareanus life. A somewhat period photograph of the final house of Phillips & Federico. At the Los Angeles Police Museum in Highland Park, the robbers' stickup duds and guns are on display in what has proved to be its most popular exhibit. His business was going sour. Gomez also has a son, Steve, who was unable to attend because he is currently serving in the United States Navy. We put on these badges to help them. She said she hadn't spoken to her son since Christmas. The way it was told was critical too; it wasn't forced upon us to be part of the narrative but given in a casual, offhand way by both parties. She was released shortly afterward. Whether the correct Larry Santos was ever identified by authorities is unknown, although he too is believed to have no connection to Phillips & Matasareanu's criminal activities. Why had they undertaken such a reckless course of action? Branch 384, the target of such a violent assault only three days previous re-opened to the public. Photo Credit - LA Daily News. Noubar Torossian, the gentleman whose need for a cigarette was cut short when Matasareanu decided to carjack Bill Marr outside his house got his opportunity to speak to the L.A Daily News. The pair, drawn together by a love of weight-lifting and weapons, had planned for months, assembling the body armor and reinforcing it over vital organs. But my son never said, Hey Pop, look at this, holding up his arm.. He and Emil Matasareanu robbed two banks in Van Nuys and Winnetka, California in May 1996. He and Krulac were then hit by bullets. Phillips plan, he said, was to have so much money he could spend $100 bills by the handful. Investigators are asking anyone with information on Federico to call robbery-homicide detectives at 213-485-0780 or 213-485-2504. Its owner, Fred Abdo, was headed to work when he saw the bandits, in dark clothing and ski masks. 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 April 2nd, 1925 nineteen year old Elva Arlene Pullen married twenty-four year old Earl Robert Phillips of 2121 Avenue F, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa. Suspects: Foul play is not suspected in her disappearance. Police in suburban Glendale said the robbers were the same men arrested there in 1993 in a car full of high-powered weapons, smoke bombs and disguises. On a 1990 trip to Romania to bring back his grandmother, Matasareanu also brought back a Romanian wife, Christina. Details of the North Hollywood shootout belong in that article. ", Like the scars still left by the hail of bullets across North Hollywood, the gunbattle would transform the Los Angeles Police Department, boosting its reputation after the Rodney King Jr. debacle, while altering its response to what became known from then on as "an active shooting situation. "He cannot handle it anymore," she said. They would become famous when they robbed a Bank of America in Van Nuys on February 28, 1997. He came with his mother to Los Angeles. Photo Credit - LA Daily News, Tracy Fisher poses next to the police cruiser that provided her cover during the shootout. Emil wasnt even planning on getting married, and he did it because Larry said to, the brother said. She would stay in the house for roughly another two weeks, when Larry never came home that Friday her intuition was proven correct, and when his name and Glendale arrest photo was finally broadcast across the airwaves the reality was hammered home. He cant take it any more. B1, This story was reported by Times staff writers Doug Smith, Henry Weinstein and Nicholas Riccardi in Los Angeles and Louis Sahagun in Denver. Deputy District Attorney James Grodin, who supervised the prosecution of the case, said he initially charged them with conspiracy to commit robbery, but had to settle for several less-serious weapons charges because he lacked evidence to prove a conspiracy. The truth of it was that they were identified very quickly, from AFIS fingerprint matches taken at the scenes where both bodies lay. He said Pop, Im just like you. He didnt give me a number. "After North Hollywood, this was the most significant event that involved the most change to not only the LAPD, but police departments throughout the world.". Matasareanu was a Romanian immigrant, overweight, and estranged from his wife and child. The familys money troubles date to at least 1990, when the first of several state and federal tax liens totaling about $4,000 was filed. Officers found two bedrooms, one apparently belonging to each man. Map showing the location of the sites tied to Larry and Emil. Some of their arsenal was returned to the pair when Phillips probation ended in January 1996, with the notation that he had completed all conditions. Many miles away across the vast landscape of LA Emil's mother, Valerie Nicolescu, gave a rare public interview and gave a curious quote stating 'my son was in with a bad crowd'. Because it remained unchecked and unchallenged it STILL endures to this day. The two "bad guys" were Larry Phillips Jr, 26, and Emil Mtsreanu, aged 30. She may have dyed her hair blonde. Third, late in the day came another breakthrough. A golden retriever was shot in the nose while on the way to his vet. Both men were living in rental properties under fictitious names, Matasareanu's properties fell like dominoes, each coming to light in short order, quite how is open to debate but we believe that the LAPD/FBI were assisted by someone close to the family. If you wish to read more on this particular myth being dispelled then head over to that page. Larry Eugene Phillips Jr., 26, was a gruff-looking man with a pencil mustache, a former grifter once arrested for real-estate fraud. Police in suburban Glendale said the robbers were the same men arrested there in 1993 in a car full of high-powered weapons, smoke bombs and disguises. Matasareanu tried to hijack a pickup, but he was unable to get it started and then began a 6-minute gunbattle with police, until he collapsed from his injuries. Military veterans quickly recognized the telltale "blat" of the Russian-designed AK-47 assault rifle. . Larry Phillips was a slightly different matter; two addresses popped up immediately. The utterly bizarre attempted takeover of the armoured car on Fallbrook Avenue in 1996 was another 'maybe' file. And I'll never forget that sound. The large stellate wound under his chin from the suicide shot plainly visible to the room's occupants. ", GREG WILCOX: The home improvement store that served as our makeshift office during the North Hollywood shootout is still there, and so is the man who runs it. On Friday two men clad in ski masks and neck-to-ankle Kevlar armor stormed a Bank of America branch in the Los Angeles suburb of North Hollywood, toting an arsenal of guns. The two decided to team up. "Forgetting my wallet was the luckiest thing I ever did," said Lemus, 59, who still works at Mountain View Tire. The two men were later tied to two San Fernando Valley bank heists netting $1.67 million, as well as an armored truck robbery in which a guard was killed. The case went to trial in 2000 and resulted in a hung jury. Records indicate that Matasareanu had occasional income as a computer software consultant but that his primary source of income was Dechebal Inc., the board-and-care home his mother operated in a Pasadena building they jointly owned. Whilst the L.A Times interviewed Fisher, they also released the information that the two gunmen were in fact the same two men arrested in Glendale in October of 1993 with a trunk full of weapons. Emil Dechebal Matasareanu, 30, and Larry Eugene Phillips Jr., 26, were arrested in October 1993 after a routine traffic stop in Glendale, Calif., led to the discovery of a cache of weapons and . Matasareanu's mother said her son was a sharpshooter and computer whiz who had grown increasingly despondent in past months, causing her to fear he was suicidal and might hurt somebody. Police said the gunmen Friday were suspected of being what some media call the ``shoot em up bandits, a duo that held up at least two suburban banks last year while dressed for combat and terrorizing customers by firing shots into ceilings or a vault. It would appear that the Coroner's office somehow missed, or perhaps under instruction chose not to include this quite obvious wound. Matasareanu, 30, a Romanian emigre, and his alleged accomplice, Larry Eugene Phillips, 26, died in a gunfight Friday after a botched Bank of America holdup. Across Laurel Canyon Boulevard, Jose Haro had hit the floor in his locksmith kiosk, where Zboravan and three other police officers took cover. Results: Solved. Multiple credit agencies were polled, drivers licences, SSN's, every conceivable method of tracing a person's official footprint was explored. Had they been responsible for other crimes? Emil Dechebal Matasareanu had epilepsy. Six projectiles comprising of two .32 caliber copper jacketed 00 buckshot pellets, two unexpanded copper jacketed hollowpoints, one partially expanded copper jacketed hollowpoint, one expanded copper jacketed hollowpoint, were recovered from Phillips during autopsy, three from his body mass and one from his clothing and one from the autopsy table which is believed fallen from his clothing. Matasareanu and his wife and young son were living with Nicolescu and running a home-care service for the mentally disabled. Larry didnt bring anybody into his inner circle unless he had a plan for him, he said. Tim McBride. They were both killed by shots to the head, left unprotected by the body armor. He would look at a crime and analyze it to see how it could have been done better.. Investigative teams were now starting to peel back the lid on both men's lives, but more so on Matasareanu than Phillips. Phillips, he said, was motivated by money and control: He wanted to live the American dream. He hated cops because of what they did to me . Links: Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Three of these were classified as fatal (the submental suicide shot and the subclavian arterial wound) or 'potentially fatal' (C-8 spinal nerve). The 26-year-old Phillips is believed to be the other. The upper portion of the house had been converted into an unlicensed board and care facility, kind of, what the LAPD found was one very dirty and dishevelled Georgia Mayo, 44. And in a case of life imitating Hollywood, 14 months after the bank-robbing movie "Heat," the shootout laid siege to North Hollywood. He was shot four times before leaping through an exploding glass doorway. He knew that every time I came in contact with police something bad happened.. "LAPD shined that day," said Lantz, who has had three knee surgeries. Recently, after the first of a series of bank robberies that authorities believe Phillips and Matasareanu committed, his fortunes showed some improvement: Matasareanu and his wife rented a sprawling multilevel home in Rowland Heights. In the projected earnings for the business he estimated between $125,000 and $250,000. His body on the gurney cut a very different figure from that of his cohort. Matasareanu v. Daryl Gates, et al Federal Civil Lawsuit California Central District Court , Case No. Police investigators search and photograph the Granada Hills safehouse. Jeri, his son Matthew with his wife Adriana, and his daughter Jamie. In the hours that it took LAPD to secure the area and uncover possible accomplices, one gunman, Emil Matasareanu, shown on TV alive and lying handcuffed in the road not far from an LAPD. The M.O seemed to match, and so this became another 'maybe'. 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