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'. "I saw their faces. Emil Dechebal Matasareanu had epilepsy. You cant imagine how manipulative my brother was, he said. All rights reserved. "Larry didn't like the way American women always. 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. But while beating a retreat, he took a bullet in the knee and collapsed in the strip mall driveway. The final entry regarding Phillips autopsy is one I have wrestled with for a long time, a matter of writing it firmly enough to show what we can see and have been told, yet delicately enough to not appear accusatory. An injured Phillips took his own life and Matasareanu surrendered, but bled out at the scene. Valerie Nicolescu said her son was a man haunted by demons. A penultimate entry regarding the autopsy that should be here is that of his toxicology screen, what exactly had he ingested? 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. 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. 2009-2021 Bears in the Beehive. 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. "He told Emil not to marry an American woman," the brother said. The victim's phone was stolen. Investigators are asking anyone with information on Federico to call robbery-homicide detectives at 213-485-0780 or 213-485-2504. Marital Status: Widowed One party was a serving police officer at the scene of Phillips body; the other was a family member who visited Phillips body at North Mission Road. 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. They pointed out he wore a $500 suit, $200 shoes and a Rolex on his arm worth thousands of dollars, Phillips Sr. said. A lawsuit was filed against the LAPD and involved officers by the family of deceased robbery suspect Emil Matasareanu, claiming that officers let the wounded robber die by delaying medical care. By the end, Larry and Emil were both dead; Emil was shot and killed by police while Larry committed suicide. Yet within that reporting, and a lot of it was exceptional work, certain viewpoints and false information was allowed to exist. In 1995 Matasareanu and his mother borrowed heavily on their home, and soon after that Valerie Nicolescus license was suspended by the state Department of Social services over accusations that two developmentally disabled clients were improperly left at a hospital. Clare Carey as Frank's Wife. 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. The former Altadena residents had once served a brief stint in jail for possessing what Glendale police said was virtually a bank-robbery kit. 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). The last eight months had brought a rash of troubles to Emil. A worker patches up bullet holes on the north side of the bank. Inside, they located the missing money that Larry and Emil had stolen in previous robberies. Inside the Bank of America, the two gunmen shot out the tellers' windows and forced their way into the vault. It ended in a deadlocked jury, with the city ultimately agreeing to pay $50,000 in legal fees. in North Hollywood. Matasareanu and his wife and young son were living with Nicolescu and running a home-care service for the mentally disabled. Yet despite the files stacking up of possible crimes there was thing that nobody could find, was where Phillips had lived. Larry was a pretty gifted kid; thats all I can say. Larry Phillips was a slightly different matter; two addresses popped up immediately. 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. Occupation: Unrevealed During the robberies, they wielded machine guns and exhibited military tactics. The father said he knows nothing of the money his son allegedly took. 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 If you wish to read more on this particular myth being dispelled then head over to that page. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Nicolescu said she did not believe her son was involved with any underground political or terrorist group. The Real Housewives of Atlanta The Bachelor Sister Wives 90 Day Fiance Wife Swap The Amazing Race Australia Married at First Sight The Real Housewives of Dallas My 600-lb Life Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. He decided to go about it the wrong way.. It would appear that the Coroner's office somehow missed, or perhaps under instruction chose not to include this quite obvious wound. Characteristics: Caucasian female with brown hair and brown eyes. With that both women parted ways, and to this day appear to have never crossed paths again. Unsolved Mysteries Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Larry Phillips and Emil Matasareanu opened fire on cops and bystanders after robbing a Bank of America in North Hollywood. Both Phillips father and brother said they are certain he didnt use drugs. We put on these badges to help them. 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. 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. Extra Notes: This case first aired on the April 11, 1997 episode. Phillips was a mess, his face swollen and contorted from being laid on his left side on the Archwood dirt median for twelve hours, fluids had pooled in the lowest points of his body and left his blood soaked face frozen in a grimace, his mouth half open baring blood stained teeth. "Does any unit know how many officers are down?" She may have dyed her hair blonde. Hard to fathom if it is true. 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. The North Hollywood gunmen took more than money. Nothing was overlooked. 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. Shoot me in the head. Real Name: Jeanette Theresa Federico 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. When Emil had left DeVry University in 1987 with his electrical engineering degree in hand he had gone straight to building a business. Even Matasareanus choice of a wife fell under Phillips influence, he said. The children of slain North Hollywood bank robber Emil Matasareanu are willing to drop their civil rights lawsuit against the city and two police officers provided the officers are barred from. This California farm kingdom holds a key, Im afraid for her life: Riverside CC womens coach harassed after Title IX suit, Six people, including mother and baby, killed in Tulare County; drug cartel suspected, These are the 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles, New Bay Area maps show hidden flood risk from sea level rise and groundwater. Photographs published with permission of homeowner. According to the Coroner's report Phillips had nineteen firearms related wounds, inflicted by eleven separate gunshot strikes. Emil Matasareanu's DUNS report about his business was returned, and it gave investigators a subtle glimpse into the kind of man they were investigating. She would later pose next to the bullet ridden passenger door of Sgt Haynes' cruiser. Postulation on whom he may have been searching for could go on forever, we happen to believe although it is not provable that it was for his half brother Denis Franks and Sharon Santos, the mother of his two sons. He said Phillips would take him on the drives to motivate him. She was charged with custodial interference as a result of an incident that had occurred in Santa Fe, New Mexico. "More than one, more than one,'" responded a frantic officer recorded on audiotape. Plink plink. 2:97-cv-02445 District Judge Christina A. Snyder, presiding No tags have been applied so far. 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). Laid out on his back with his head turned to the left, his Galco shoulder holster was removed; followed by his ammunition carrying vest revealing the blood and sweat soaked grey Honors T-shirt that covered his body armor. 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 text would be a constant rehashing of what had happened on Friday interspersed with known facts and any nuggets of developing information. 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. Yet the day was not all media based, three critical events happened on this day. Interestingly this vehicle was never seized under Federal Asset Forfeiture. During the standoff, frustrated police ran into the now-defunct B&B Gun Shop to grab high-powered weapons and ammo. Nonetheless, he pursued real estate illegally, using sophisticated scams and sometimes bald threats, authorities and those who did business with him allege. 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. n cele din urm, Mtsreanu a fost mpucat de 29 de ori, dar nc tria cnd poliitii l-au imobilizat. The brother also became his victim, finding that his brother was using his name and Social Security number as his aliases. 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. An engineer by training and a political dissident who had been jailed, he pushed the boy in school. Matasareanu and his family had quietly occupied this house with Emil moving out to the Pepperdale Drive house in December 1996. No weapons, no bag full of banknotes, nothing. Emil Matasareanu and Larry Phillips were scum, but the only difference between them and the cops is that the government pays the cops. 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. Over $1.5million was still missing, both women knew they would have to face the authorities soon enough, to disclose what they each knew of their husband's activities and what they knew of the missing volume of Bank of America's cash. Lots more to come. The truth of it was that they were identified very quickly, from AFIS fingerprint matches taken at the scenes where both bodies lay. Currently, she is only wanted for questioning. They had Kalashnikov rifles filled. No further information was ever released as to what this may have been, although this was not the last time this substance would be found as we will soon see. Remnants of Emil's previous past-times. Forty nine miles to the southeast back at the Pepperdale Drive address a second search was conducted and this time bore more troubling fruit. 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. 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. 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. "I can't forget that day," said Kazanchyan, now 49. They were also believed to have robbed an armored car in June 1995; during that robbery, a guard was killed. It had been stolen from a vehicle on his drive around New Years and not been seen again until the morning of the robbery. He started rambling. he said. A lot of times youll run across people and there will be something about their expression or body language that will really trip you that says, Watch out for this guy, Carson said. 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? The FBI has not yet identified the two men, though Matasreanus mother confirmed her 30-year-old son was one of the men killed. ``The way they struck and the way they handled their weapons, one would have to expect that they got some training somewhere, said Los Angeles Police Cmdr. The first search of this property would reveal 500 rounds of ammunition of an undisclosed calibre, a revolver, stun guns and blank identification documents. That piece of information? PHOTOS: North Hollywood shootout 20th anniversary - a look at the past and present. The boys mother, Dorothy Clay, served 10 years for drug possession, and while in prison stabbed a guard with a shank, he said. Matasareanu v. Daryl Gates, et al Federal Civil Lawsuit California Central District Court , Case No. Matasareanu's final house (2015). Silverman and Stampede's Lisa Zambri will produce. Mayo who had been moved to the property at the beginning of February, had allegedly been left alone, locked in a single dark room within the property for at least the previous week during which time she had had no access to her medicines or food. 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? Had they been responsible for other crimes? 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. 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. The robbery occurred near the 900 block of Kings Road. Matasareanu was a Romanian immigrant, overweight, and estranged from his wife and child. 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. On a 1990 trip to Romania to bring back his grandmother, Matasareanu also brought back a Romanian wife, Christina. With Michael Madsen, Ron Livingston, Ray Baker, Douglas Spain. Outside, LAPD Officer Bill Lantz was five days out of the police academy when he and his training officer cowered behind their cruiser in the intersection. 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. When Matasareanu was 8, bullying by schoolmates caused him to turn to computers as a refuge, she said. Denver Gestopo units terminate a man for no reason, then plant a gun to say he pointed a gun at them. LAPD had found the 'safe house'. 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. 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. 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. They looked like zombies, no emotion. 2. Map showing the location of the sites tied to Larry and Emil. For 44 thunderous minutes, they marched through a neighborhood under siege, spraying stores, homes and cars with 1,100 armor-piercing bullets, wounding 11 police officers and six bystanders. "It sounded like a war, like death," said Lopez, 58, who is now retired. Sergeant Gomez is the last of three SWAT officers who directly engaged in a close-combat gun battle with suspect Emil Matasareanu. 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. He had told his father he was moving back to Denver, probably in the coming April, when his father gave him the wise mans nod and told him to be careful Jr responded 'I might be dead by then'. The kiosk would take 150 rounds, some of which are visible today. 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