An LAPD patrol car is riddled with bullets in the aftermath of the gun battle with two armed robbers in North Hollywood.

It started like any other day, maybe a little brighter for some San Fernando Valley residents, as it was a Friday and, for many, a payday.

That payday, and the prospect of more than $750,000 in cash to cover withdrawals, was what brought Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. and Emil Dechebal Mătăsăreanu to the Bank of America in North Hollywood that day. But they weren’t customers — they were violent bank robbers.

The pair had obtained a number of weapons, including automatic rifles, and they had more than 3,300 rounds of ammunition, many of them armor-piercing bullets.