WITNESS SOFTENS TESTIMONY POLICE GOT AID FOR ANOTHER MAN THEY THOUGHT WAS A SUSPECT.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. police sought medical help for a bystander by·stand·er n. A person who is present at an event without participating in it. bystander Noun a person present but not involved; onlooker; spectator Noun 1. they thought was a suspect in the 1997 North Hollywood shootout The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily-armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips, Jr. and Emil Matasareanu, and patrol and SWAT officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, California on February 28, 1997. , an eyewitness An individual who was present during an event and is called by a party in a lawsuit to testify as to what he or she observed. The state and Federal Rules of Evidence, which govern the admissibility of evidence in civil actions and criminal proceedings, impose requirements testified Wednesday. Attorneys for an officer accused in a lawsuit of allowing North Hollywood bank robber Emil Matasareanu to bleed Printing at the very edge of the paper. Many laser printers, including all LaserJets up to the 11x17" 4V, cannot print to the very edge, leaving a border of approximately 1/4". In commercial printing, bleeding is generally more expensive, because wider paper is often used, which is later to death recalled Dora Lubensky to the stand in a bid to soften her testimony of how police reacted that day to the incident in her neighborhood. Lubensky said that when William Marr, a motorist, staggered onto her porch with blood streaming from his head, she refused to let him and another injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. man inside. Marr had a hand behind his back, so she thought he might be holding a gun. ``I did not know if they were bad guys or good guys,'' she said. She called 911 and the operator led her to believe Marr was a suspect, Lubensky testified. At one point, he was briefly placed under arrest but was not held. Lubensky, who could see from her window Matasareanu as he lay wounded, had earlier testified that she called 911 to get help for someone wounded in the gun battle who was on her porch bleeding to death. But in the 911 tape, which former Officer John Futrell's attorney, Bradley Gage, played for the jury, Lubensky told the operator simply that there was a man hiding on her porch and she could hear gunfire in the background. In court Wednesday, Lubensky acknowledged that she did not tell the 911 operator that the man, later identified as Marr, was bleeding or that he needed medical aid. But by calling 911, Lubensky said she assumed she was summoning aid. ``After you saw him arrested as a suspect in the bank robbery The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. Bank robbery is the crime of robbing a bank. , did you see him receiving medical treatment?'' Gage asked. ``Yes,'' Lubensky replied. Police shot Matasareanu, 30, and his 26-year-old partner, Larry Eugene Phillips Jr., after the pair robbed a Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. bank Feb. 28, 1997. Armed with automatic weapons and clad in full body armor Noun 1. body armor - armor that protects the wearer's whole body body armour, cataphract, coat of mail, suit of armor, suit of armour armet - a medieval helmet with a visor and a neck guard , they shot it out with police, wounding 11 officers and six civilians. Phillips died when he placed his gun under his chin and fired, about the same time a police bullet struck his head. Matasareanu was shot 29 times, but one emergency room doctor has testified that he likely would have survived if he had received prompt medical attention. The gunman's children are suing the city and two police officers. Lubensky, who also testified last week, reiterated that she watched Matasareanu spray the street with machine gun fire, saw him being shot and remembered him raising his hands in surrender. She said again that she heard him curse the police, demand that he be shot and also say, ``Help me.'' Later Wednesday, Los Angeles County Coroner The Los Angeles County Department of Coroner was created in its present form on December 7, 1990 by an ordinance approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, though it has existed in some form since the late 19th century. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran testified that his office could not form an opinion about whether Matasareanu would have survived if he had been rescued earlier by paramedics. That conclusion was reached after he met with the doctor who performed the autopsy and a detective who investigated the case. The coroner said reports submitted to him showed that the first ambulance on the scene evaluated Matasareanu as ``not salvageable'' because of massive bleeding, and did not render aid. By the time a second ambulance arrived an hour later, Matasareanu was reported to be in the last moments of life. ``When you lose a certain amount of blood, you go into shock and bleed to death,'' the coroner said. |
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