"They were asking for a helicopter"

The Daily Crime

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4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Thirty years ago, on April 4, 1991, four armed men entered an electronics store in South Sacramento, sparking one of the largest hostage situations in the history of the United States. ABC10's Brea Love spoke shares what happened. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:01.1	And that opened the door, allowing a sniper to get a pretty clear shot at one of the gunmen,
0:07.7	but they missed and it shattered the glass window.
0:11.0	And that's just when the firing started.
0:14.0	For Vault Studios, I'm Reid Redmond.
0:16.0	You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:19.0	On April 4th, 1991, 30 years ago, listening to the Daily Crime.
0:27.9	On April 4th, 1991, 30 years ago, four armed men entered the Good Guys electronic store in South Sacramento, sparking a more than eight-hour standoff.
0:31.8	They're looking at a live picture from the Good Guys store in South Sacramento.
0:36.0	They've set off concussion grenades.
0:37.8	They're making their move.
0:41.0	Brea Love, anchor and reporter with ABC 10 in Sacramento.
0:44.1	You recently reported a story for the 30th anniversary of the Good Guys hostage situation.
0:50.0	Take us back to April of 1991.
0:52.5	How does this whole horrific series of events start?
0:55.7	Absolutely. It was just a typical day there on April 4th. People were shopping at the
1:01.9	electronic store and foremen would enter, armed, and take everyone in the store hostage at the
1:08.0	time. And from what I've talked to to survivors and former law enforcement,
1:13.6	that the demands that they made would be called bizarre. They were asking for a helicopter
1:19.7	to take them back to Vietnam, which was their home country of the four men that came in.
1:25.0	They were asking for guns, bulletproof vest, and a lot of money,
1:29.4	which was something that just wasn't feasible for that time. So this would turn into an eight
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