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 valor, he would receive an award from the county. They were both killed by head shots that bypassed their body armor. He would say, Why dont you visualize yourself in that house? When his gun jammed and he was no longer able to advance, he shot himself. South of the bank, Carlos Lemus, an employee of the Goodyear tire shop, was walking toward its ATM when he realized he'd forgotten his billfold. ---. 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 Photo Credit: LA Daily News. Even Matasareanus choice of a wife fell under Phillips influence, he said. One of two bank robbers who perpetrated the infamous Bank of America robbery on February 28, 1997. It was also noted that an old muscle car bearing the licence plate 1EMIL1 was parked at the rear of the property and covered with a tarpaulin. In Phillips case his residence would not be identified until some weeks later when his wife, Jeanette Federico, finally surrendered herself in Colorado. 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.' Matasareanu and his wife and young son were living with Nicolescu and running a home-care service for the mentally disabled. A search of Nicolescu's Sinaloa Ave property, Valerie's Villa, was conducted and only a small box was removed by police, which they declined to comment about what it contained. 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. Matasareanu and his family had quietly occupied this house with Emil moving out to the Pepperdale Drive house in December 1996. West Harriet St and West Loma Alta Drive also in Altadena. Dean Haynes, and was perpetuated by the media. Sr would give the detectives a few leads to go on but ultimately he gave up nothing extraordinarily revealing about his son. Clare Carey as Frank's Wife. (213) 251-4554, 20 years after the North Hollywood shootout, echoes of the terror remain, Sgt. Who were these men? Denver Gestopo units terminate a man for no reason, then plant a gun to say he pointed a gun at them. It would appear that the Coroner's office somehow missed, or perhaps under instruction chose not to include this quite obvious wound. Respect for privacy and personal property certainly went downhill in North Hollywood that day. If you wish to read more on this particular myth being dispelled then head over to that page. So far, investigators have released few details about the pair. In the projected earnings for the business he estimated between $125,000 and $250,000. Larry was just young.. Jeanette Federico, Larry's widow, had seen the shootout on the news. He and Emil Matasareanu robbed two banks in Van Nuys and Winnetka, California in May 1996. Alex Meneses as Nicole. 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. After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes. And it was at the key shack that he dove atop Detective William Krulac and Officer Tracey Angeles as Phillips returned fire. The first search of this property would reveal 500 rounds of ammunition of an undisclosed calibre, a revolver, stun guns and blank identification documents. The FBILA Bank Squad received information that Matasareanu had been a patron at a Northridge gun store, where he was well known for purchasing 7.62x39mm ammunition. But the North Hollywood robbery was to be their biggest yet. The bullets then whizzed through Mr. Jiffy's Pizza, narrowly missing a driver before bouncing off a warming oven. Investigators are asking anyone with information on Federico to call robbery-homicide detectives at 213-485-0780 or 213-485-2504. The truth appears to have been vastly different; the business was all but abandoned, residing in an unfinished basement at the East Orange Grove Boulevard address and consisting of nothing more than a few boxes of long forgotten parts and with, as far as we can make out, no 'employees' bar himself, and as a cherry to top the cake One must ask the question, why such an increase on the projected earnings? He became an expert and programmed arcade and video games, eventually earning a degree from DeVry Institute, Nicolescu said. We only knew what happened when we saw it on the news.". On February 28, 1997, at 9:15 AM, Emil Dechebal Matasareanu and Larry Eugene Phillips, Junior, walked into a Bank of America in Van Nuys, California, not far from the Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. studios. 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). After the bodies were removed under SWAT escort to the Coroner's office at North Mission Road, detectives would attempt to contact both men's families, with varying degrees of success. Friday saw Phillips Sr interviewed in Denver. . You must fight on. With that both women parted ways, and to this day appear to have never crossed paths again. Marital Status: Widowed Weight: 130 pounds Matasareanu's autopsy would be conducted over both days of that weekend. The M.O seemed to match, and so this became another 'maybe'. Matasareanu's final house (2015). He was shot four times before leaping through an exploding glass doorway. Armed to the . 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. Finally the answer to those campaigns would be forthcoming. She said health authorities forced Matasareanu out of the home. 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 next year the service was closed because of an allegation made that Matasareanu abused one of the six residents. Beretta 92F, det vapen som anvndes av Phillips. An in-depth discussion on this issue, which needs to be finally understood and eradicated from this event can be found on our 'Myths' page here. The next year the service was closed because of an allegation made. "More than one, more than one,'" responded a frantic officer recorded on audiotape. Some SWAT members had been working out at the LAPD academy and arrived in gym shorts and bulletproof vests. Glendale police department stated publically that after the two 1996 jobs that they had given their file on Phillips and Matasareanu to the FBI, the FBI gave no return quote to confirm or deny this. . 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 . He hated cops because of what they did to me . Valerie Nicolescu said her son was a man haunted by demons. 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. The gunmen in "Heat" had nothing on these two. The shootout featured on most LA television channels and Jeanette speaks of watching the shootout unfold and a shocked realization of exactly who was under those black knit ski masks. A property he had rented under an assumed name since December 1996. Larry Phillips was a slightly different matter; two addresses popped up immediately. He said, All you guys are alike, the system is all screwed up, Smith said. The last eight months had brought a rash of troubles to Emil. 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. Dale Dye as SWAT Lieutenant. 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. PASADENA, Calif. (AP) _ The parents of a bandit gunned down by police during a botched bank robbery say their son had an ``attitude problem and that his brazen assault was ``like suicide., ``Never I heard that he fight with someone, Viorel Matasareanu, 77, said Sunday of his son Emil Dechebal Matasareanu, who he had brought with him from their native Romania. Officials also were looking for ties between the men and organized crime. 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. 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. Matasareanu's body would be formally identified by a family friend, not his wife, not his mother, a family friend. The Argentine immigrant then sprinted to a nearby cleaners, where he pulled a woman to safety just as bullets shattered a window. 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. ". 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. For his trouble, he later suffered nightmares and a nervous tic in one eye. Emil Dechebal Matasareanu had epilepsy. The truth of it was that they were identified very quickly, from AFIS fingerprint matches taken at the scenes where both bodies lay. During the weekend of 1st/2nd March 1997, Cristina Matasareanu visited the house at Drake Ave; she wanted to speak with Jeanette, to find out what she should do. 340 37 37 comments Best Add a Comment mafoo 10 yr. ago The media continued in their hunt for information. The reason is society tells you you have to have a 9-to-5 job until you retire at 65. That wasnt for him. He idolized the wrong people, the brother said. 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. Very quickly the two May 1996 jobs of Winnetka and Van Nuys were attributed to the two bodies that had lain in the streets of North Hollywood; and eleven miles away certain entities within Glendale Police Department were absolutely sure that the two men who had gained worldwide notoriety earlier the previous morning were the same men they had sat in their interview rooms nearly three and a half years ago. 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. Apparently enraged to find only $350,000 in its coffers, they beat a bank branch officer. Photographs published with permission of homeowner. 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. 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? There had been many high profile shootouts with police in California over the years yet rarely had there been one where responding officers had been so utterly at the mercy of the assailants. The 26-year-old Phillips is believed to be the other. 1983, against Willie Williams, the City of Los Angeles (" defendant City" ), and 50 unknown members of the Los Angeles Police Department (collectively " defendants" ). Matasareanu, 27, and Phillips, 31, were believed to have pulled off a number of earlier bank heists in the area. It is curious to note that we have found no official communiqu naming Phillips and Matasareanu as the perpetrators; the media seem to be the first people to use their names, and the LAPD followed suit some time later. She would later pose next to the bullet ridden passenger door of Sgt Haynes' cruiser. 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. Dr. Jorge O. Montes, who would receive an award, risked his life to treat the wounded cops. First came the news that Los Angeles Sheriff's Department had authorized the immediate deployment of AR15 rifles to all field supervisors. A property allegedly unknown to his mother who had said she had not spoken to her son in a couple of years, yet it is widely known she had a conversation with him in December 1996. 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. Another time, the son showed up looking for his longtime girlfriend after learning that she had been through two evictions. Map showing the location of the sites tied to Larry and Emil. Other than that scene, the only known forewarning of the deadly turn in the two mens friendship was their 1993 arrest for possession of illegal automatic rifles after a Glendale police officer stopped them for speeding. Suspects: Foul play is not suspected in her disappearance. Second, both LAPD and LAFD commissions confirm that an investigation into why Matasareanu did not receive timely aid had been opened on the behest of the LAPD Command. According to the Coroner's report Phillips had nineteen firearms related wounds, inflicted by eleven separate gunshot strikes. 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. 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. . LAPD spokesman Jason Lee said all three weapons resemble the AK-47 and that it is illegal to possess any of these rifles in California. "He cannot handle it anymore," she said. Phillips address and Federico were still a thing of mystery to LAPD and FBI. His known life of crime began with a 1989 petty theft of $400 in merchandise from the Alhambra Sears. The story of her Labrador, D.O.G, who was wounded in the muzzle during the heated gun battle was also published. In various areas of the city certain people were pretty sure they had seen these two before. There was little external evidence of the horrendous trauma that had been inflicted upon Matasareanu's body. 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. i aa s-a i ntmplat. With a what-did-you-expect shrug, he added: "He grows (up) here. A comprehensive look at the 1997 North Hollywood Shootout detailing the lives and crimes of Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Matasareanu Zboravan says he testified in that trial. 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. Reaching further back to 1993 RHD found a takeover conducted by three men of an armoured car in Littleton, Colorado; an area very close to Phillips 'home turf' and the town that would become tragically famous only two short years later for the massacre at Columbine High School. Matasareanu v. Daryl Gates, et al Federal Civil Lawsuit California Central District Court , Case No. Phillips had taken on a lifestyle of quiet paranoia, living under aliases, multiple identities, driver's licences, at least five SSN's, and in the infancy of cellular telephones it was believed that he had stuck to the old and tested pager for remote contact method, although that may not have been the whole truth as we shall later discover. When police last week searched a Pasadena commercial building owned by Matasareanus mother, they were shocked to discover a 44-year-old mentally disabled woman locked in an underground bunker without food or water. 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. Who's the doctor? Of their nearly 4,000 rounds of ammo, many were armor-piercing. 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. Forty nine miles to the southeast back at the Pepperdale Drive address a second search was conducted and this time bore more troubling fruit. He also refused to speculate on a possible source of their weapons, the identities of others they knew, or the whereabouts of an estimated $1.3 to $1.7 million they are believed to have taken in earlier Bank of America branch robberies in the San Fernando Valley on May 2 and May 31 last year. Larry Eugene Phillips Sr., 48, who still lives in Denver, said in an interview with The Times on Sunday that Larry is the way he is because of my lifestyle. The North Hollywood gunmen took more than money. 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. 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. "It sounded like a war, like death," said Lopez, 58, who is now retired. Perhaps inspired by the epic shootout scene in the 1995 film "Heat," they were . On initial inspection the property's location seems nothing special, but a closer look sees that it is sited on a road with only one access point, and the house has a commanding view of the road that anybody approaching 'his' street would have to take to get near the house. An injured Phillips took his own life and Matasareanu surrendered, but bled out at the scene. The most obvious example is the 'armor piercing ammunition' myth which originated from Sgt. The interior of the Bank of America branch the Monday morning after the shootout. Eleven officers and six civilians were injured before the two suspects were killed in a gunfight. Preceding . 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. 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. 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. Matasareanu was a Romanian immigrant, overweight, and estranged from his wife and child. Like drugged. 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. ", At another nearby shop, Miguel Lopez was installing a battery in the car of an off-duty police officer when the shooting started. Tucked away on Ludlow Street in the far north of the San Fernando Valley in Granada Hills on a quiet street sat an unassuming house, rented by Matasareanu under the name of Michael Dilbek in April 1996. So why the hike in the projected earnings, again we return to that question. They believe that she can clear up several important facts in this case, including: the number of robberies Larry and Emil committed; the location of the missing money; and the possibility of accomplices being involved. A quote I once read about this event comes back to me now and if I recall it correctly it went something like this: 'The neighbourhood suffered two assaults, the first by the two masked men and the second a day later by the looky-loos and the press'. 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. They were also believed to have robbed an armored car in June 1995; during that robbery, a guard was killed. The case went to trial in 2000 and resulted in a hung jury. Campaigns to allow officers to '''up-gun' themselves had lain dormant for many months due to them being a political 'hot potato'. Or were they just setting the stage for what they would be getting into? Location: Los Angeles, California They were both killed by shots to the head, left unprotected by the body armor. His partner, Officer Dean Schram, saved his life by drawing returning fire. Larry Phillips and Emil Matasareanu attempted to rob the North Hollywood Bank of America. Inside, they located the missing money that Larry and Emil had stolen in previous robberies. 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. 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. He bled to death while police, concerned about reports of a third masked gunman, searched the area. Walter was not a happy man, there had been substantial damage to his property (which exists to this day, the hole that the V100 bulldozed through his rear wall has been left and turned into a vehicle entry), he was waiting to hear back from the city and was upset that nobody so far had been in contact. Date: February 28, 1997. Nothing appeared to have moved in it for nearly a week. Jeanette turned herself in to authorities in Colorado as a result of the broadcast. Jeanette was reported as being in Los Angeles that day, but she could not be found when the police went looking for her. Real Name: Jeanette Theresa Federico 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. Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Matasareanu didn't stop as they slowly made their defiant way through city blocks, in a small white car, its hood open, heavy guns firing, as LAPD units fought back.. Glendale again forwarded their suspicions to both the FBI and LAPD RHD (Robbery Homicide Division). After dropping her daughter off at school she had returned home and started cleaning the house. 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. Wounded and bleeding, they sprinted toward the doorway of an upstairs dentist office, between a defunct Builders Emporium and Hughes Market, in what is now a Smart & Final and a Ralphs. 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. Occupation: Unrevealed The FBI has not yet identified the two men, though Matasreanu's mother confirmed her 30-year-old son was one of the men killed. Larry Phillips was a slightly different matter; two addresses popped up immediately. The reality is that they found a dusty basement, staffed by some old weight training equipment and two computers. But my son never said, Hey Pop, look at this, holding up his arm.. But things had begun to unravel by 1993. We put our lives on the line. 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. His business was going sour. 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. The brother also became his victim, finding that his brother was using his name and Social Security number as his aliases. Phillips Sr. said his sons feelings about law enforcement were shaped on his sixth birthday when FBI agents came to the house, guns drawn, to arrest the father. As the night-time hours blanketed the Southland the previous haste to identify and contain other potential suspects had now abated. New York City Gestopo units exicuted a black man for taking out his billfold to show ID. 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. He had brain surgery months before his death and was estranged from a wife and two kids. 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. Both Phillips father and brother said they are certain he didnt use drugs. 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