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The memorandum contains many details about the shootout including badge numbers of officers and detectives, where they positioned themselves in the perimeter around the robbers with distances of fire, and how many rounds they fired from their weapons.
Not a single shot is fired. Based on true events, The Helicopter Heist tells the story of the meticulous planning, ingenuity and nerve that went into pulling off one of the most daring crimes in history.
Feb 28, 2023 · Forty-four minutes later, hundreds of rounds had been fired by the robbers carrying high-powered rifles and LAPD officers, most of whom were armed only with their handguns.
- Jonathan Lloyd
- 13 min
May 16, 2022 · State and federal officials watched as the violence of each heist began to escalate, culminating in the now infamous North Hollywood robbery and a 44-minute shootout with the LAPD that would forever change the shape of policing in America.
Apr 30, 2020 · In total, he was shot over 20 times in the legs although the two fatal shots were from his left thigh.
Feb 28, 2017 · For 44 minutes, out-gunned officers engaged the bank robbers, dodging barrages of high-powered bullets, rescuing their wounded and peppering their targets with hundreds of shots that bounced...
At 10:01 AM, February 28, 1997, a shootout between two heavily armed bank robbers and officers of the Los Angeles police department came to an end after more than 2,000 rounds were fired. It is considered amongst one of the bloodiest shootouts in the history of the United States police force.
