Why'd the Romanian robber die?

You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground how many cops do you know?What happened sweetheart ,did you get a ticket were you offended.Those guys were going against homicidal animals that day.

"Cause of death as listed by the LA County coroner: Multiple gunshot wounds."

I've been dying to say this since this topic was started; 'Why'd the Romanian Robber Die?"; He got shot!

I'd be pissed off at that family that had the arrogance to sue the police about the deat of their son. He shoots an entire bank and street and they want composation! Please tell me that the family didn't win. That would just be sad.

Because it was believed that he had a bomb strapped to him and they were checking that and they did not know if there were more shooters. That team was held for a valid reason and that he died, he brought it on himself.

I'm not sure, but I would bet that comment was creative license by FOX. Given the layout of the bank, I don't think anyone was close enough to actually hear it. But that's just a guess.

To this day it's unknown if Philips suicided or not. One can certainly speculate that given the sheer quantity of ammunition and the home made full body armor, they weren't 'kinda sorta' keen on prevail or die trying, it's a definite.

On the second gunman - witnesses _did_ come forward after the incident (*subsequent to them calling it in when they first saw it) stating that they did alert police to what they believed to be additional gunmen hiding and or moving through residential areas/yards nearby. It later transpired that all these sightings could be accounted for - they had in fact seen various police and toward the end, possibly some swat members (since their clothing, from a distance at least, wasn't particularly different in colour or overall fit, esp if someone is just peeking out from behind a curtain not wanting to be seen)

With that in mind, you can quite rightly understand the police on the scene with Matasareanu quite rightly would have wanted to ensure the paramedics (or whatever the relevant emergency service is called there) were in no danger from any additional as yet unidentified assailants. I'm not saying they put a comfy pillow under Matasareanu's head and held his hand begging him to 'live dammit' - but let's get realistic here - there has to be safe working practices and a fundamental prioritising of emergency services resources.

Matasareanu's family's lawsuit was imho unconscienable. I pray nobody related to me gets into such a situation, but I tell you what, if I got wind of a friend or relative pulling armed robberies, I'd be giving them about 5 seconds to hand themselves in before I dobbed them in.

Lastly on the sniper thing. I used to do some target shooting with my dad when I was younger (in the days before extremely tight gun restrictions in Australia, and I'll avoid an argument on their merits or lack thereof!) and was quite a reasonable marksman. Hitting a stationary target - piece of cake even for a moron, moving target (and it didn't get bigger than rabbits typically, and they are considered both a pest here, as an introduced species, and also 'good eatin' for some old timers) was harder, but doable, if the movement patterns of the specific animal, and the terrain were known quantities. Once the first one was hit, though, good luck as the rest would scatter quicker than you could sneeze.

Now let's throw in another variable - from a moving helicopter. Oh my god. I've never tried such a thing (obviously) but based on other experiences - if someone managed to get a shot in the same few inches at less than 50 yards, they'd have to be genetically altered with alien DNA - I couldn't think of a much harder task. Lay off the law enforcement - I'm not suggesting they are all perfect marksmen, but for goodness sake get a handle on the very real difficulties (compounded on top of one another) of shooting at a moving target, esp if the sniper is moving too, or if they are under fire. And those police get up every day and go out with the possibility that they'll face such an incident on any given shift, and keep turning up for the next shift.

Given the fact that they were _so_ heavily at a disadvantage - with pistols and shotguns against bullet proof crims, and have to consider everyone else's safety (they couldn't just fire anywhere and any time they pleased lest they hit an innocent civilian or something) - I think it's an absolute testament to the law enforcement officers involved that there were no loss of life apart from the actual crims. Took a lot of guts to keep engaging with such disproportionate firepower.