Police Shootout
After the bungled shoplifting incident, the three SLA members abandoned the van they had been using. The police picked it up and found a parking ticket in the glove box, giving them the address of the safe house.
When the other members of the SLA saw the events on TV, the abandoned the safe house and took over a house occupied by an older couple. A 17-year-old neighbor of the old couple was also at the house at the time, and remembers waking up to “four white women and three dudes—two blacks and one white. I saw guns spread out all over the floor.”
The next day, an anonymous call came in to the Los Angeles Police Department that said that there were several heavily armed people at the caller’s daughters house.
That afternoon, more than 400 LAPD officers surrounded the neighborhood.
When the LAPD called for the people in the house to come out, the older man and the child walked out, and when asked if there were other people at the house, the child told the police about the armed SLA members.
After several other failed attempts to get the people out, a member of the swat team fired tear gas projectiles into the house. This was met with heavy bursts of automatic gunfire, and so the battle began.
After two hours, the house caught fire. Automatic weapon fire continued from the house. At this point, Nancy Ling Perry and Camilla Hall came out of the house. Hall was shot in the head by a police as she allegedly charged toward them and Parry was providing cover fire.
Hall’s body was dragged back into the burning house by Angela Atwood and as Perry followed she was shot twice in the back.
The rest of the group died inside, from gunshot wounds, burns and smoke inhalation, except for DeFreeze who the coroner’s report concluded committed suicide.
Over 9,000 rounds were fired throughout the gun battle, making it one of the larges police shootouts in history. In addition, it was the first ever televised shootout, so Hearst and the Harrises watched the whole battle from a motel in Anaheim.
When the other members of the SLA saw the events on TV, the abandoned the safe house and took over a house occupied by an older couple. A 17-year-old neighbor of the old couple was also at the house at the time, and remembers waking up to “four white women and three dudes—two blacks and one white. I saw guns spread out all over the floor.”
The next day, an anonymous call came in to the Los Angeles Police Department that said that there were several heavily armed people at the caller’s daughters house.
That afternoon, more than 400 LAPD officers surrounded the neighborhood.
When the LAPD called for the people in the house to come out, the older man and the child walked out, and when asked if there were other people at the house, the child told the police about the armed SLA members.
After several other failed attempts to get the people out, a member of the swat team fired tear gas projectiles into the house. This was met with heavy bursts of automatic gunfire, and so the battle began.
After two hours, the house caught fire. Automatic weapon fire continued from the house. At this point, Nancy Ling Perry and Camilla Hall came out of the house. Hall was shot in the head by a police as she allegedly charged toward them and Parry was providing cover fire.
Hall’s body was dragged back into the burning house by Angela Atwood and as Perry followed she was shot twice in the back.
The rest of the group died inside, from gunshot wounds, burns and smoke inhalation, except for DeFreeze who the coroner’s report concluded committed suicide.
Over 9,000 rounds were fired throughout the gun battle, making it one of the larges police shootouts in history. In addition, it was the first ever televised shootout, so Hearst and the Harrises watched the whole battle from a motel in Anaheim.
The deadThe dead included:
· Nancy Ling Perry (“Fahizah) · Angela Atwood (“General Gelina”) · Camilla Hall (“Gabi”) · Willie Wolfe (“Kahjoh”) · Patricia Soltysik (“Mizmoon” and “Zoya”) |
Clip of the shootout, first ever televised and one of the largest in history.
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video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5p7TLSnV4c