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Subject *Remembering Emil Matasareanu*
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Original Message Matasareanu's last smile after being shot 29 times:

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On February 28, 1997, at 9:15 AM, Emil Dechebal Matasareanu and Larry Eugene Phillips, Junior, walked into a Bank of America in Van Nuys, California, not far from the Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. studios. A total of 32 customers and 10 employees were present in the bank when the two men entered it. Both men were wearing all black, including ski masks, and both were also wearing high quality body armor. One of them (it is unclear which) ordered everyone onto the floor—"Cover your eyes!"— and soon after automatic weapons fire was heard. One man was hit in the head with a rifle butt because he couldn't keep his 2- or 3-month old baby quiet.

They did not order the plexiglass doors to the areas behind the counter opened; they simply obliterated them with automatic gun fire. It is unclear what happened after these incidents and when the LAPD arrived on the scene. But everything that occured after the arrival of officers is well documented.

The two men did indeed die at the scene. But not before they had fired over 1,100 rounds of 7.62x39 mm ammunition from both AK-47 and SKS rifles. For more than twenty minutes the two men held off police (eventually more than 200 officers were at the scene) with their gunfire, and ultimately advanced five city blocks. Their bullets were full metal jacket, and could pierce police body armor from over 200 yards away. Eventually, Mr. Phillips died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head; prior to that he had been shot 11 times. Mr. Matasareanu had ultimately been shot 29 times, and would have lived if he'd been given immediate and proper medical attention. Police let him bleed to death instead.

The late Mr. Matasareanu, 30, was born in Romania and grew up partly in Altadena. He turned to computers because he was teased for being chubby. After graduating from DeVry Institute of Technology in Los Angeles, he operated his own business, working as a computer technician and software designer, his mother, Valerie Nicolescu, told reporters.

He started having trouble with the law after authorities shut down a care center for the mentally disabled he ran with his mother, Nicolescu said. A few years ago, he went to Romania to get married and returned with his wife. She left with their two sons (Alexander and Emil Junior) six months before the robbery. Adding to his woes: brain surgery in July for epilepsy brought on by a blocked artery and the failure of his computer business.

Larry Eugene Phillips, Junior, left behind a widow, Jeanette Theresa Federico. She was reported to have been in Los Angeles the day of the robbery, but police were unable to contact here. She was profiled on Unsolved Mysteries not long ago. After seeing herself on television, she turned herself in.

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