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At 9: 17 am, Larry Phillips, Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu entered and robbed the North Hollywood Bank of America branch.
Phillips and Mătăsăreanu were confronted by LAPD officers when they exited the bank and a shootout between the officers and robbers ensued.
The two robbers attempted to flee the scene, Phillips on foot and Mătăsăreanu in their getaway vehicle, while continuing to engage the officers.
The shootout continued onto a residential street adjacent to the bank until Phillips was mortally wounded, including by a self-inflicted gunshot wound ; Mătăsăreanu was killed by officers three blocks away.
Phillips and Mătăsăreanu carried illegally modified fully automatic AKMs and an AR-15 rifle with high capacity drum magazines and ammunition capable of penetrating police body armor.
Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. ( born September 20, 1970 and standing at 6 ' 4 ) and Emil Decebal Mătăsăreanu ( born July 19, 1966 in Romania and standing at 6 ' 2 ) first met at Gold's Gym in Venice, Los Angeles, California in 1989.
In October 1993, Phillips and Mătăsăreanu were arrested in Glendale, northeast of Los Angeles, California, for speeding.
Phillips and Mătăsăreanu were dubbed the " High Incident Bandits " by investigators due to the weaponry they had used in three robberies prior to their attempt in North Hollywood.
On the morning of February 28, 1997, after months of preparation, including extensive reconnoitering of their intended target — the Bank of America branch located at 6600 Laurel Canyon Boulevard — Phillips and Mătăsăreanu loaded five rifles, one handgun, and approximately 3, 300 rounds of ammunition in box and drum magazines into the trunk of their vehicle: two modified Norinco Type 56 S rifles, a modified Norinco Type 56 S-1, a semi automatic HK91 and a modified Bushmaster Dissipator.
Phillips and Mătăsăreanu, driving a white 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity, arrived at the Bank of America branch office at the intersection of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Archwood Street in North Hollywood around 9: 17 A. M., and set their watch alarms for eight minutes, which they estimated was the average police response time.
As they entered the bank, Phillips and Mătăsăreanu forced a customer leaving the ATM lobby near the entrance into the bank and onto the floor.
Phillips and Mătăsăreanu opened fire into the ceiling to scare the approximately 30 bank staff and customers and to discourage resistance.
At around 9: 32 a. m., Phillips exited the bank through its north doorway and Mătăsăreanu through its south doorway.
Officers shouted repeatedly for Phillips and Mătăsăreanu to drop their weapons, but none of the officers fired.
Phillips and Mătăsăreanu began to engage the officers, firing rounds into the patrol cars that had been positioned on Laurel Canyon in front of the bank.
The patrol officers were armed with standard Beretta 92F and Beretta 92FS 9mm pistols and Smith & Wesson Model 15. 38 caliber revolvers, Officer James Zaboravan also carried a 12-gauge Ithaca Model 37 pump-action shotgun, but the body armor worn by Phillips and Mătăsăreanu was strong enough to resist penetration.
Multiple officers and civilians were wounded in the seven to eight minutes from when the shooting began to when Mătăsăreanu entered the robbers ' white sedan to make a getaway ; He ushered Phillips to get into the vehicle as well, however Phillips remained outside of it, retrieved a HK91 from the trunk, and continued firing on officers and helicopters while crouching behind the cars in the parking lot, possibly providing covering fire for Mătăsăreanu.
Scale map of the area around the bank ($), final locations of Phillips ( P ) and Mătăsăreanu ( M ).
At 9: 52 Phillips, who had been using the getaway vehicle as cover, split from Mătăsăreanu, turned east on Archwood Street, took cover behind a parked truck, and continued to fire at the police with his AKM.
Most of the incident, including the death of Phillips and the death of Mătăsăreanu, was broadcast live by news helicopters, which hovered over the scene and televised the action as events unfolded.
By the time the shooting had stopped, Phillips and Mătăsăreanu had fired about 1, 100 rounds, approximately a round every 2 seconds.

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( C ) 1983 Acorn Computers Ltd. Thanks are due to the following contributors to the development of the Electron ( among others too numerous to mention ):- Bob Austin, Astec, Harry Barman, Paul Bond, Allen Boothroyd, Ben Bridgewater, Cambridge, John Cox, Chris Curry, 6502 designers, Jeremy Dion, Tim Dobson, Joe Dunn, Ferranti, Steve Furber, David Gale, Andrew Gordon, Martyn Gilbert, Lawrence Hardwick, Hermann Hauser, John Herbert, Hitachi, Andy Hopper, Paul Jephcot, Brian Jones, Chris Jordan, Computer Laboratory, Tony Mann, Peter Miller, Trevor Morris, Steve Parsons, Robin Pain, Glyn Phillips, Brian Robertson, Peter Robinson, David Seal, Kim Spence-Jones, Graham Tebby, Jon Thackray, Topexpress, Chris Turner, Hugo Tyson, John Umney, Alex van Someren, Geoff Vincent, Adrian Warner, Robin Williamson, Roger Wilson.
Other reactions to natural theology are those of Wittgensteinian philosophers of religion, most notably D. Z. Phillips.
According to Phillips, the question of whether or not God exists cannot be " objectively " answered by philosophy because the categories of truth and falsity, which are necessary for asking the question, have no application in the religious contexts wherein religious belief has its sense and meaning.
In the early 1950s workers at Phillips Petroleum discovered that chromium catalysts are highly effective for the low temperature polymerization of ethylene, which launched a major industrial technologies.
" Hearing about a suicide seems to make those who are vulnerable feel they have permission to do it ," Dr. Phillips said.
There are also instances in which an existing band added a prominent new member or members, where the resulting group might have been considered a supergroup had it not kept its original band name, such as Van Halen after recruiting Sammy Hagar and Gary Cherone, and the Eagles after hiring Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit, and Styx, hiring Lawrence Gowan, and Ricky Phillips.
There are four Canadian citizens within the Canadian Royal Family: Two married into it: In 1988, Sylvana Jones ( née Tomaselli in Placentia, Newfoundland ) wed the Earl of St. Andrews, a great-grandson of King George V, and, on 18 May 2008, Autumn Kelly, originally from Montreal, married Queen Elizabeth II's eldest grandson, Peter Phillips.
Phillips and Williams later noted that compounds of silicon, germanium, arsenic and antimony with the poor metals, ' are probably best classed as alloys '.
* 1960-7 school minister and teacher of religion at Phillips Exeter Academy ; daughters are born
The Chapel and Lovelace Hall at Marion Military Institute, First Congregational Church of Marion, the Henry House, Marion Female Seminary, Phillips Memorial Auditorium, President's House at Marion Institute, Siloam Baptist Church are all individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Among them are Frank Sinatra, Congressman Sonny Bono, Alice Faye, Phil Harris, " Papa " John Phillips, Jane Wyman, Dinah Shore, George Montgomery, Cameron Mitchell, Harold Robbins, Busby Berkeley, William Powell, Betty Hutton, Guy Madison, Buddy Rogers and many more.
The Mayor is Jack Longino and the council members are Ward 1, Ambrose Clay, Ward 2, Tracey Wyatt, Ward 3, Joseph A. Carn and Ward 4, Charles E. Phillips Sr, Esq.
Members of the Borough Council are Council President John R. Phillips, Vincent Bigley Jr., Carol Heller, Noralie Lafevre, Donald Pursell and George A. Sniffin.
The positions are currently held by Sharon Angelaccio, Lauren Phillips, Thomas Kelley, J. Adam Matlawski, and Joseph Mastronardo, respectively.
There are also some three thousand students in Borger at the community college, Frank Phillips College.
Early American examples are the prestigious preparatory schools of Phillips Andover Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy and Deerfield Academy.
Two influential papers that incorporate a New Keynesian Phillips curve are Clarida, Galí, and Gertler ( 1999 ) and Blanchard and Galí ( 2007 ).
There are at least two different mathematical derivations of the Phillips curve.
There are several major explanations of the short-term Phillips Curve regularity.
Supply shocks and changes in built-in inflation are the main factors shifting the short-run Phillips Curve and changing the trade-off.
New forms of concrete / visual poetry are still being created, such as the interactive and puzzle poetry by Jennifer Kathleen Phillips.
There are two distinct mechanisms involved, called after their proponents, Phillips and Miles.
She and her sister are the only granddaughters of the Queen to hold the title of Princess of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the style Her Royal Highness: although their cousin, Lady Louise Windsor, is legally a princess, in accordance with Letters Patent issued by King George V, she is not styled as such at the request of the Queen and her parents ; their other female first cousin, Zara Phillips, is the Queen's granddaughter through the female-line, therefore allowing her only the title and style of her father, who has none.
The Issedones are " placed by some in Western Siberia and by others in Chinese Turkestan ," according to E. D. Phillips.

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