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in North Hollywood. Their body armor and illegally modified assault rifles gave them a huge

advantage over local patrol officers and detectives. After a sustained gun battle, the robbers

began their escape.

They moved away from the bank and into a residential neighborhood.

Their plan, whatever it had been, started to collapse.

It was the closing phase of the robbery-turned shootout.

At about the same time, three members of the Metro Division SWAT team arrived with assault rifles of their own.

Their first job was to provide cover for a group of rescuers who were going to collect

the severely injured officers and civilians.

While the rescuers worked, one of the robbers, Larry Phillips, suffered two fatal gunshot

wounds. One was self-inflicted, though it was hard to tell if it was on purpose or an accident. But if his own bullet hadn't killed him, he would have died as the result of a bullet that struck him in the back of the neck and was fired by one of the officers at the scene. One gunman was down, the one who was responsible for most of the destruction.

But the second gunman, Emil Matasaranu, was still on the loose.

He was trying to escape in a 1985 Chevy celebrity that had been shot to hell.

On the LAPD radios, the command was given for SWAT to handle the takedown of

Matasarano. The three SWAT officers finished their work with the wounded, piled into a police car,

and gunned the engine. The final standoff would take place on Archwood Street, a simple residential

street in the San Fernando Valley that most people

had never heard of before February 28, 1997. But on that day, a Friday, it was the center

of the nation's attention. While the LAPD brought the situation to a close, the nation watched

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