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). Photo Credit: LA Daily News. In short order the L.A Times and the L.A Daily News conducted interviews with Detective John Krulac (the officer that came under withering fire in the Hughes parking lot with Officer James Zboravan and ended up in the dentist's stairwell). He was a follower, he said, echoing the words of the mans mother, Valerie Nicolescu, who told reporters after the shootout that her son was corrupted by Phillips. Respect for privacy and personal property certainly went downhill in North Hollywood that day. 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. He was driving down the road with his wife and John Chase, an accomplice, in the car, along with several weapons, when he passed a car of FBI agents going the other way. During an interview Sunday in his cramped Pasadena apartment, Viorel Matasareanu recalled playing soccer with the boy and teaching him math. He was a criminal genius.. Cook seemed to be prepared, even eager it seemed to accept that Phillips and Matasareanu's deaths would at last close the file on her husband's murder that had remained unsloved for the previous two years. He hated cops because of what they did to me . Larry and Emil were intercepted as they left the bank. The discovery of this address must have come late in the day, as the search warrant for it was slated to be executed the following day. The entire country witnessed the raging gun battle that lasted half an hour, and left ten police officers and six civilians wounded. 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. Together, they lived with his mother in a home where she ran a "home care service for the mentally disabled." But after a neighbor alleged that Matasareanu abused one of the residents under her care, his mother kicked him out. He and Emil Matasareanu robbed two banks in Van Nuys and Winnetka, California in May 1996. At 10:30am Emil Matasareanu's body was also wheeled out from cold storage. James Zboravan, then a rookie, recalls the North Hollywood shootout. Before becoming a full-time bank robber, he began suffering from seizures. The younger Matasreanu had difficulty realizing his vision of the American dream. Despite the threat, Phillips avoided prosecution for the illegally concealed handgun taken from his waistband as he was arrested with a forged $25,000 note. He had brain surgery months before his death and was estranged from a wife and two kids. As Los Angeles read the column inches over their morning coffee, Dr Susan L. Selser and five RHD detectives stood in an examination room at North Mission Road, the home of the Coroner's office. Its owner, Fred Abdo, was headed to work when he saw the bandits, in dark clothing and ski masks. They said he was a serious bodybuilder who would never ingest a harmful substance. Based on a real event that took place in February 28th 1997 when two heavily armed men wearing body armor decided to rob the Bank of America in North Hollywood. It was not a million miles removed from people dipping handkerchiefs in the blood of John Dillinger when he was finally assassinated by Federal Agents outside the Biograph theatre. Nicknames: Jean Malta, Jeanette Phillips 1997 North Hollywood Shootout Autopsy report on Larry Phillips Jr. & Emil Matasareanu. That address does not exist today; the land parcel and those surrounding it were restructured sometime around 1956. West Harriet St and West Loma Alta Drive also in Altadena. The North Hollywood gunmen took more than money. Details: Jeanette Federico is the wife of serial bank robber Larry Phillips Jr.. They pointed out he wore a $500 suit, $200 shoes and a Rolex on his arm worth thousands of dollars, Phillips Sr. said. On the morning of February 28, 1997, two heavily armed men wearing body armor burst into a Bank of America branch, took a little more than $300,000 and fired their way out. The detectives who went to deliver the next of kin notification were met by his mother, whose anguished screams could be heard outside in the road when she was informed of her son's death. LOS ANGELES - The parents of a bandit gunned down by police during a botched bank robbery say that their son had an "attitude problem" and that his brazen assault was "like suicide. Results: Solved. The brother also became his victim, finding that his brother was using his name and Social Security number as his aliases. n cele din urm, Mtsreanu a fost mpucat de 29 de ori, dar nc tria cnd poliitii l-au imobilizat. It would appear that the Coroner's office somehow missed, or perhaps under instruction chose not to include this quite obvious wound. A cache of weapons was also discovered. 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? (1.6M/43 sec . Like drugged. His own fatherly advice, he said, was: Dont trust anybody. , On his sons last visit, the father asked for his phone number. 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 lesson is, very plainly: "Just because you're shot doesn't mean you're going to die. As a result, police departments in Los Angeles County and beyond now have access to more powerful weapons, including assault rifles and shotguns with plug rounds. As the day wore on various entities gave interviews to the media, amongst them was Sgt Haynes whose black and white had been the first target for Phillips, and Judy Cook; the widow of Herman Cook who was executed by an unknown gunman back in 1995. Silverman and Stampede's Lisa Zambri will produce. Clare Carey as Frank's Wife. Matasareanu was a Romanian immigrant, overweight, and estranged from his wife and child. His failure to disclose that conviction on a 1990 application disqualified him from obtaining a California real estate license, records show. Weight: 130 pounds In it they found both more and less than they ever expected. 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. But he said, I promise Ill be in touch. , Reflecting on the horror of viewing the news footage of his sons violent end, Phillips Sr. said, I watch it and watch it, thinking its going to make me strong. They were making off with cash when police arrived and the gunfight erupted. Viorel Matasareanu and his son became distant in 1990 in a dispute over education and the father's belief that Emil had married too early. He would look at a crime and analyze it to see how it could have been done better.. He said, All you guys are alike, the system is all screwed up, Smith said. "I saw their faces. Katrina Law as Kate. Phillips, he said, was motivated by money and control: He wanted to live the American dream. The large stellate wound under his chin from the suicide shot plainly visible to the room's occupants. But my son never said, Hey Pop, look at this, holding up his arm.. By the end, Larry and Emil were both dead; Emil was shot and killed by police while Larry committed suicide. Scary," said Abdo, an Armenian immigrant from Iran. Eldstriden i North Hollywood var en vpnad konfrontation mellan tv bankrnare (Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. och Emil Dechebal Matasareanu) och LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) och SWAT-enheter den 28 februari 1997. One such tale recounted but unsubstantiated (and never likely to be substantiated either) speaks of Larry and Denis shooting each other whilst wearing body armour, a continuation of their childhood 'tests of manhood' that had been inflicted upon them by their grandfather and uncles. There exists on the internet a couple of pictures of Phillips body that show in enough detail what appears to be a wound low centre of Phillips forehead, just to the right of his left eyebrow. LaChasse will join Los Angeles and federal officials today at the North Hollywood police station for a 20th anniversary tribute in honor those who stopped the North Hollywood bank bandits. He just said to me that he wanted to die. The Herman Cook murder back in 1995, also at the Winnetka branch was a folder that was pulled and tentatively attributed to them, and whilst never publically laid at their feet the intimation was made that they were being looked at for that crime. Photo Credit - LA Daily News, Tracy Fisher poses next to the police cruiser that provided her cover during the shootout. Because it remained unchecked and unchallenged it STILL endures to this day. he said. 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. They would become famous when they robbed a Bank of America in Van Nuys on February 28, 1997. He had moved into a rental property on E.Drake Avenue in Anaheim Hills, a spacious property situated on the northern side of the road, four houses into a long cul-de-sac. Even Matasareanus choice of a wife fell under Phillips influence, he said. A property he had rented under an assumed name since December 1996. Emils mother, Valerie Nicolescu, said she hadnt spoken to him since Christmas. B1, This story was reported by Times staff writers Doug Smith, Henry Weinstein and Nicholas Riccardi in Los Angeles and Louis Sahagun in Denver. Phillips Sr told the detectives that Jr had handed him a pre-paid pager, and had also given him his own pager number so that they may remain in contact. Campaigns to allow officers to '''up-gun' themselves had lain dormant for many months due to them being a political 'hot potato'. 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. Forty nine miles to the southeast back at the Pepperdale Drive address a second search was conducted and this time bore more troubling fruit. With a what-did-you-expect shrug, he added: "He grows (up) here. LAPD had found the 'safe house'. Characteristics: Caucasian female with brown hair and brown eyes. The shootout didn't end there for Caprarelli. He characterized his brother as a glib, fancy-dressing bodybuilder who could be charming and caring to his longtime girlfriend but who harbored dark dreams. They were both killed by head shots that bypassed their body armor. A worker patches up bullet holes on the north side of the bank. Alex Meneses as Nicole. An injured Phillips took his own life and Matasareanu surrendered, but bled out at the scene. He says to me that he wants to die. Sr would give the detectives a few leads to go on but ultimately he gave up nothing extraordinarily revealing about his son. Larry Eugene Phillips Jr., 26, was a gruff-looking man with a pencil mustache, a former grifter once arrested for real-estate fraud. 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. He was shot four times before leaping through an exploding glass doorway. Were they washing stolen money through the business? Larry Phillips Jr. and. ``He said, `I cant take it any more, this life. He did everything to succeed. This is where the trail for us goes cold on this property, we can find no reference to any law enforcement visit, any search warrant. Currently, she is only wanted for questioning. Although never charged with real estate fraud, a civil action later ended in a judgment ordering Phillips to pay nearly $140,000 in principal, interest and court costs to two title companies. There's so much going on. Authorities believe the men might have robbed as many as five other banks in the past four years and they are trying to determine what happened to the millions in loot. And in a case of life imitating Hollywood, 14 months after the bank-robbing movie "Heat," the shootout laid siege to North Hollywood. 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. A somewhat period photograph of the final house of Phillips & Federico. 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. 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. 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out AZ Movies. . Phillips walked down Archwood Street, continuing his gunbattle with police. He separated from the wife he had brought back from Romania, and she took their son with her. For his valor, he would receive an award from the county. He used his brains. Today would be a day of searches, secondary searches and seized vehicles. A comprehensive look at the 1997 North Hollywood Shootout detailing the lives and crimes of Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Matasareanu They do know, however, that Matasareanu and Phillips had been acquaintances since at least Oct. 23, 1993, when police caught them with a carload of weapons and military gear, including AK-47s, 9-mm handguns, six smoke grenades, two homemade explosives and a gas mask. That would not be known until over six weeks later when his wife surrendered herself after driving from the family home to a friend's in Thornton, Colorado, she would lead detectives to the house her and Larry had shared, until that time the police had no leads. Quite how they magically came up with this address is beyond our capability to dig out, and remains somewhat suspicious to us to this day. Police Identify Suspected Widow of Slain Robber, With Wife of Slain Robber Missing, Probe of Bank Shootout Falters, Wife of Northern California Gunman Held in Colorado, Gunman's Widow Leads Police to Guns and Cash, Widow of Slain Robber Free After Leading Cops To Money. Larry Phillips was a slightly different matter; two addresses popped up immediately. Occupation: Unrevealed . The cash was never found. Detective Tracey Angeles spent some time with the L.A Daily News recounting her minutes of sheer horror in the Hughes parking lot and attempting to get aid to the injured Officer Stuart Guy. The interior of the Bank of America branch the Monday morning after the shootout. He dismissed as a motive the financial problems of Matasareanu, whose immigrant mother--a defector from the Romanian state orchestra--saw her state board-and-care license revoked because of alleged patient neglect and fire violations and who had been dogged by tax liens in recent years. An engineer by training and a political dissident who had been jailed, he pushed the boy in school. Nonetheless, he pursued real estate illegally, using sophisticated scams and sometimes bald threats, authorities and those who did business with him allege. But authorities are investigating whether the gunmen in Friday's incident had funneled money from a pair of earlier robberies - which netted at least $1.3 million - to subversive paramilitary or criminal organizations. Military veterans quickly recognized the telltale "blat" of the Russian-designed AK-47 assault rifle. It's not a macho thing. The nation then watched the terror unfold on live TV as news helicopters broadcast the battle now known as the North Hollywood shootout. All Rights Reserved |. Police search the trunk of the 1995 Buick Century found in the Granada Hills safehouse. Copy of original search warrant, house number redacted for owner privacy. The most obvious example is the 'armor piercing ammunition' myth which originated from Sgt. Suspects: Foul play is not suspected in her disappearance. A question developed amongst the media information of how to better protect law enforcement; the scale of Friday's event was without precedent. That would change dramatically as the autopsy progressed. Matasareanu was from Romania, and in 1993, he brought his wife and son to the U.S. as well. 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. 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. ", Copyright 2023 LAPPL Who were these men? That same night, bad dreams and the beginnings of. 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. A sunny, scorching afternoon brought Marie Joseph and her neighbors to Lafayette Park -- four kids and a few . in North Hollywood. Apparently enraged to find only $350,000 in its coffers, they beat a bank branch officer. He idolized the wrong people, the brother said. Those folk who wanted to come see the place where this event had happened, to poke their fingers in the bullet holes, hunt for stray casings and touch the places where these men had fallen. 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. Then in what can only be described in one of the most stunning pieces police ingenuity ever recorded they managed to get on to Emil's final property. That plan, however, was foiled Friday largely because an LAPD officer spotted the gunmen in full body armor carrying automatic weapons into a Bank of America branch. I have decided to remove it from this portion of the text and it can be found on the Myths page as it becomes a rather in depth study of Phenobarbital which we don't have the space for here. Jeanette's story has never yet been fully told, but it has been explored by a collaborative project we are associated with and as such we are at liberty to disclose a little more than has ever been previously told. He knew that every time I came in contact with police something bad happened.. The brother said Phillips was so secretive and so effectively compartmentalized his life that associates in his real estate scams probably were not even aware of his budding relationship with Matasareanu, a social misfit and fellow gun lover he met about 1989. He cant take it any more. Map showing the location of the sites tied to Larry and Emil. The house was, at the time, the largest on the street and it was to be Emil's final home. Emil wasnt even planning on getting married, and he did it because Larry said to, the brother said. Had they been responsible for other crimes? 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. Mortgage broker Larry Newfield said that when he told Phillips he was going to police, Phillips said, Ill kill you.. But things had begun to unravel by 1993. "After everything was over, I saw the bullet holes in my kiosk, and my arms started to swell," Haro, now retired and in ill health, told the Daily News a decade ago. They say she has been known to frequent Southern California's San Gabriel Valley and has ties in Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada. They had Kalashnikov rifles filled. The gunmen in "Heat" had nothing on these two. Details of the North Hollywood shootout belong in that article. 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. Ash Street shootout : The night that changed Tacoma's Hilltop 20 years ago, a tense Hilltop neighborhood erupted in hundreds of gunshots as gangsters fought Army . They looked like zombies, no emotion. He faced business and personal difficulties that came to a head in recent months. ", "Never I heard that he fight with someone," Viorel Matasareanu, 77, said yesterday of his son, Emil Dechebal Matasareanu, whom he brought with him from Romania. The robbers were armed with. Denver Gestopo units terminate a man for no reason, then plant a gun to say he pointed a gun at them. Investigative teams were now starting to peel back the lid on both men's lives, but more so on Matasareanu than Phillips. Perhaps inspired by the epic shootout scene in the 1995 film "Heat," they were . A pedestrian was robbed at gunpoint around 10 p.m. Tuesday in West Hollywood , according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Sunday's session would only be attended by two RHD detectives, and only one of those had been present on the Saturday session. ---. And it was at the key shack that he dove atop Detective William Krulac and Officer Tracey Angeles as Phillips returned fire. The next year the service was closed because of an allegation made. This was apparently done out of deference for her son being killed only five days previous. The victim's phone was stolen. Mayo was removed to Huntington Memorial Hospital for evaluation, and Pasadena police conducted only a brief interview with Nicolescu, choosing to label her only as a 'possible suspect' in an illegal board and care establishment. Comparison of the bank's exterior a couple days apart. Frequently fighting back tears, Phillips Sr., who said he is now unemployed and raising two young daughters alone in his cluttered apartment, painted a dreary picture of Phillips childhood. Please do not message us and ask for them as refusal often offends). One of two bank robbers who perpetrated the infamous Bank of America robbery on February 28, 1997. Eleven officers and six civilians were injured before the two suspects were killed in a gunfight. Emil (Mtsreanu) Pete (Mtsreanu) Gender Both male Birth Date September 20, 1970 (Phillips) July 19, 1966 (Mtsreanu) Place of Birth Los Angeles, California, U.S. (Phillips) Timioara, Romania (Mtsreanu) Date of Death February 28, 1997 (both; aged 27 and 30) Place of Death North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. Job 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. All rights reserved. With that both women parted ways, and to this day appear to have never crossed paths again. It had been stolen from a vehicle on his drive around New Years and not been seen again until the morning of the robbery. 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. Jeanette turned herself in to authorities in Colorado as a result of the broadcast. The 26-year-old Phillips is believed to be the other. He had a wife and two children. Plink plink. Walter Milosevic (the gentleman who was removed from his home when LAPD believed from a tip that there was a third gunman hiding in Milosevic's outbuilding). Privacy tarp hangs from the safehouses' garage door. It should also be noted that the bullet holes in his house were not caused by Matasareanu for he never fired in the direction of this house (SE from the direction the Celebrity's hood). In 1990 father and son became distant in a dispute over education and the fathers belief Emil had married too early. 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. Copyright 1997 by United Press International. "LAPD shined that day," said Lantz, who has had three knee surgeries. Real Name: Jeanette Theresa Federico Nicknames: Jean Malta, Jeanette Phillips Location: Los Angeles, California Date: February 28, 1997 Bio Occupation: Unrevealed Date of Birth: August 7, 1968 Height: 5'3" Weight: 130 pounds Marital Status: Widowed Characteristics: Caucasian female with brown hair and brown eyes. Matasareanu and his wife and young son were living with Nicolescu and running a home-care service for the mentally disabled. Torn by guilt about his inability to help his brother go straight, by fear for the future of the Burbank business he owns and by concern for his familys privacy and safety, the brother has resisted persistent offers to go on national TV, but he said he decided to tell his story to The Times to dispel misguided speculation. Glendale again forwarded their suspicions to both the FBI and LAPD RHD (Robbery Homicide Division). Everything he did was completely thought out. But we all have families to go home to.". We will be back in late September/early October with a rewrite of Matasareanu's history and then we move forward into a large reshuffle/rewrite of the site. 10 years ago, Fall River's Lafayette Park pool was the scene of a horrific drowning. It is to this house we shall return momentarily. 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. Of their nearly 4,000 rounds of ammo, many were armor-piercing. The man, who said he has been interviewed by police and the FBI and is not a suspect, declined to talk about several significant points in the case, saying he was admonished that his comments could impede the investigation. The 2026 N. Sinaloa address was Emil's mother's house at the time. Date of Birth: August 7, 1968 The media had a field day, so many people to interview, so many stories to tell, who was where, who did what, and who felt what. When his gun jammed and he was no longer able to advance, he shot himself. Photo Credit - LA Daily News. West Harriet was the address he had shared with his mother in the early 1990's, it was now devoid of all connection to the Phillips family. Walter Kennedy, Matasareanu's previous neighbour on Sinaloa Ave was interviewed by USA Today recounting the story of Matasareanu's graduation and how nobody had showed up. In fact at the time of the North Hollywood debacle he had been living fifty miles south of the crime scene in Orange County. Makeup Department Production Management Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Art Department Sound Department Special Effects by Visual Effects by Stunts Camera and Electrical Department Casting Department Costume and Wardrobe Department Editorial Department Location Management Music Department Script and Continuity Department AR15, det vapen som anvndes av Matasareanu. Valerie Nicolescu said her son was a man haunted by demons. Larry Phillips and Emil Matasareanu opened fire on cops and bystanders after robbing a Bank of America in North Hollywood. "He said, 'Oh man, it's my lucky day.' Matasareanu's autopsy would be conducted over both days of that weekend. "He told Emil not to marry an American woman," the brother said. During the robberies, they wielded machine guns and exhibited military tactics. Phillips is recorded as standing at 71 inches tall (5ft 11 inches), weighing 193lbs and appearing in good health with no underlying medical issues. Matasareanu and his wife and young son were living with Nicolescu and running a home-care service for the mentally disabled. A civil-rights lawsuit later filed on behalf of Matasareanu's two young children alleged he was deliberately allowed to bleed to death. 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. What else? Yet the day was not all media based, three critical events happened on this day. One entry of the wound count potentially came post mortem when Phillips was downed on Archwood and still under a hail of police gunfire (the right tricep wound). Mobster Jimmy the Gent Burke, who according to published reports was the long-suspected architect of the crime, died last year without ever having been charged. "For eight months, I didn't sleep during the night.". . A Pasadena police department report said Mayo's room had a nauseating odour of faeces and urine, with only a bucket being present to serve ablutionary needs. The Argentine immigrant then sprinted to a nearby cleaners, where he pulled a woman to safety just as bullets shattered a window. After dropping her daughter off at school she had returned home and started cleaning the house. 23 West Harriet St., Altadena, CA 244 West Loma, Altadena, CA In a 1993 probation report, Phillips said his parents divorced when he was 10. The kiosk would take 150 rounds, some of which are visible today. 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