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Hollywood Shootout | National Geographic


00:00:11philipson matter sera knew what access

00:00:13to the vault and they know from their

00:00:16months of reconnaissance which man holds

00:00:18the keys

00:00:19assistant manager John Villa grana he’s

00:00:25crouching behind the counter to get to

00:00:29him

00:00:29mater Serrano has to blast his way

00:00:31through a bulletproof security door it’s

00:00:36only designed to withstand small arms

00:00:38fire and I can feel the the nozzle the

00:00:42rifle being placed on my back he hit me

00:00:46with the with the rifle and the side of

00:00:47the hand like I mean business and I said

00:00:53well let’s go to the ball John unlocks

00:00:57the vault and opens the lockers storing

00:01:00the cash

00:01:05there’s nothing like the amount of money

00:01:08the gunmen are expecting to fort

00:01:12criminals

00:01:13Bank of America has been varying the

00:01:15times that it delivers cash today’s

00:01:18supply has yet to arrive

00:01:22I’m not emptying in the amount of cash

00:01:24out of you maybe he was expecting I can

00:01:26feel it in his tone

00:01:27now he’s needed a more aggressive he’s

00:01:29saying where’s all of it I want you to

00:01:31open up all you know he got upset so

00:01:36what does he do he opens fire in all the

00:01:39money that’s in that cabinet

00:01:55and I could see he’s now believing me

00:01:57he’s all of a sudden got very quiet but

00:02:00now he’s putting his nozzle on me and I

00:02:04was thinking well you know this is this

00:02:05is it

00:02:05this is really it for me now Wow

00:02:10can’t be it’s too soon you know I didn’t

00:02:14even say goodbye to my daughter I didn’t

00:02:22outside officers call for every

00:02:25available ambulance they fear multiple

00:02:29casualties it’s exactly eight minutes

00:02:33since the start of the robbery

00:02:35time for the gunman to make their

00:02:37getaway

00:02:39they’ve got $300,000 a fraction of what

00:02:45they’d expected matter sera new exits

00:02:49the building’s south door Phillips the

00:02:52North Philips expected a few police cars

00:03:00to be just arriving

00:03:02he appears stunned to see dozens of

00:03:05officers waiting to shoot them down they

00:03:10cover every escape route blocking off

00:03:13junctions north and south of the bank

00:03:15the police have cornered the robbers but

00:03:20they’ve no idea what Phillips has in

00:03:22mind

00:03:24he loads the police