As always, thanks for reading and please feel free to leave a comment down below. If you have questions many of the links in the article have a bounty of information that I was unable to include in the article. The story of the North Hollywood Bank shootout has many complex and intricate details, many of which I was not able to include for brevity’s sake. I hope that this brief breakdown of the facts has been informative and enjoyable to read. Today weapons like these can be considered “standard issue” by many police departments. This thought process led to the Department of Defense giving 600 surplus M-16 rifles to the LAPD which were then issued to each patrol sergeant. If anything this incident proves just how ineffective standard patrol weapons (pistols and shotguns) can be against those with heavier firepower. This single incident in which two heavily armed and highly motivated men chose to rob a bank at high risk proved to be one of the motivating factors to standard patrol officers being armed with more lethal weapons.
LAPD SWAT brought AR-15 rifles to bear and commandeered a nearby armored truck to extract the wounded civilians and officers from the area. LAPD SWAT arrived 18 minutes after the shooting had begun and were much better armed than the patrol officers. After discarding several empty ammunition drums Phillips and Mătăsăreanu exited the bank both carrying the large money bag. This portion of the battle would go on between officers and Phillips until he decided to return to the bank Phillips may have been struck several times by both LAPD officers and detectives with 9mm rounds as several officers engaged him from multiple angles. Phillips turned to engage the officer and those around him and eventually wounded officer Zboravan with one round striking his lower back and other striking his hip and exiting through his thigh. Zboravan used his Ithica Model 37 and two blasts of buckshot to hit Phillips from the rear with 9 total projectiles but only one managed to injure Phillips by striking his right buttock which was unprotected by armor. Phillips was initially shot by officer James Zboravan. A Breakdown of the Infamous 1997 North Hollywood Bank Shootout
0 kommentar(er)
