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  2. North Hollywood shootout - Wikipedia

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    The North Hollywood shootout, also known as the Battle of North Hollywood, [2] was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and police officers in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles on February 28, 1997. Both robbers were killed, twelve police officers and eight ...

  3. Kevin Gaines (police officer) - Wikipedia

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    1990–1997. Rank. Sworn in as an officer – 1990. Kevin Lee Gaines (February 6, 1966 – March 18, 1997) was an American police officer assigned to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums unit implicated in the Rampart scandal . Gaines had ties to Death Row Records and the Bloods, and dated Suge ...

  4. 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out - Wikipedia

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    It is a semi-fictional dramatization of the 1997 North Hollywood shootout, and follows the perspectives of bank robbers Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, as well as various Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers involved in the shootout. 44 Minutes premiered on the FX Network on June 5, 2003 to mixed reception.

  5. List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United ...

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    California (Los Angeles) North Hollywood shootout: 1997-02-28: Mătăsăreanu, Emil: California (Los Angeles) North Hollywood shootout: 1997-02-15: Hernandez, Salomon (28) California (Santa Rosa) Hernandez did not pay at the Coddingtown Exxon gas station, and police were called. Police say Hernandez tried to attack an officer with a screwdriver.

  6. Crime in Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    The 1997 North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and patrol and SWAT officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, California on February 28, 1997. It occurred when responding patrol officers engaged Phillips ...

  7. Police search for suspects after 7 wounded, 4 critically, in ...

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    Police on Sunday were searching for suspects in a late-night shooting that wounded seven people, four critically, in Long Beach, California. At least two gunmen were suspected of opening fire on a ...

  8. Frank Lyga - Wikipedia

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    Los Angeles Police Department. Service years. 1986–2014. Rank. Sworn in as an Officer – 1986. Detective I (1990) Frank Lyga (born c. 1957) is an American former police officer of the Los Angeles Police Department, who shot and killed officer Kevin Gaines. [1] The resulting LAPD investigation of Kevin Gaines helped lead to the Rampart Scandal .

  9. 1997 Detroit shootings - Wikipedia

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    1997 Detroit shootings. / 42.428056; -82.954167. On March 11, 1997, a shooting spree took place in Detroit, Michigan when 21-year-old Allen Lane Griffin Jr. killed three people and wounded two others with a 12-gauge pump shotgun before being fatally shot by police. The shootings took place predominantly at a Comerica branch bank in northeast ...