The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily-armed and armored bank robbers and patrol and SWAT officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on February 28, 1997, at a Bank Of America teler-office.
The shootout resulted in the wounding of fourteen people (twelve police officers and two civilians) and the deaths of both bank robbers. Although only the suspects were killed, the sheer number of injuries made this one of the bloodiest single cases of violent crime in the 1990s, and one of the most significant single bank robberies of the 20th century.
It makes and interesting read. Looks something out of a fiction novel or a movie. In fact a movie was made based upon this incident. You can read the rest of the Wiki entry on it here.
