old black lady in there. then they interviewed the little boy and they asked him who is inside the house and she said a bunch of white people with guns. several people in there, white people and black people and they had bullets across their chest like this, band leers of ammos, obviously. the radio transmission comes out for the team to deploy tear gas. be advised we re deploying gas now. one round goes into the side of that house. lapd did not fire first. we fired the tear gas round. that was to cause hem to surrender. but the gunfire erupted. it was amazing. it basically scared the hell out of me and i dropped to the ground. i mean, i tried to dig a hole in the cement. the guys that were out in front thought that i was hit. i get up on my knee and i put my thumb up saying i m okay.
building right behind us. that s bad, that s bad. we just got missed by a bullet in the house right beside us here. that s when we got scared. we better out out of here, guys. this shoot-out was incredibly dramatic. but what made it even crazier and even more of a national obsession was that everyone thought patty hearst was inside the house. so this fight was being watched around the world. with everyone thinking that this heiress is about to be murdered on live television. we don t want to kill everybody in the house. we don t see that a house, because we want to kill the people there, we want to stop the gunfire. the gunfire that s going indiscriminately throughout the community could hurt other people outside that are not involved, that are trying to get away from it. this was urban guerilla warfare. there was a sense of like, we ve got to suppress this, we ve got to make this stop.
at least 150 of those officers were deployed around the perimeter of that location. a patrol perimeter unit was approached by an elderly lady. the woman said are you looking for those white folks with guns. and they said, yes. she said, they are in my daughter-in-law s house. she said it s five houses from the corner. i was approaching the fourth house and as i got to the front door, i heard a voice. the voice was that i believe to be right up against the house. i was right up against the house. he was ordering people to do things inside of the house to move the furniture, to barricade the front door. i immediately contacted the team at the rear. i said the fourth house is the suspect s house. that ironed it for us. we knew we were at the right place. so we deployed right away. we would have not done it that way originally.
heavily tourist place. we chose disneyland. they had already surrounded the house on 54th street. not a place you want to be tonight, tell you that, ladies and gentlemen. i was at the corner of the house, i was kind of on my knees, kneeling up against the house. i notified my lieutenant of what i heard and the fact that they were barricading themselves. jerry was the sergeant in front and he gave an announcement, 23 separate times, to the people in the house at 1466 east 54th street, you re surrounded. we want you to surrender and walk out. that was repeated over and over and over. and eventually two people came out, a little boy, about 8, 9 years old, and an elderly man. when he was asked, hey, who s in there? he lied and said there s only an
so they figure they need to get out of where they had been with bill, emily and patty and start looking for somewhere else to go. they are on 84th street and they drive through south central looking for a new place to stay. and they find a house in the middle of the night of may 16th on 54th street, a few miles away. we realize that they are not coming. we drove to the hills. we discussed our next move. emily or patricia possibly tried to imagine what we left behind. we realized that we left the parking ticket behind. we knew that the parking ticket was going to connect us to the street that the house was on. big mistake. big, horrible mistake. first tattoo? yeah relax, amigo, it s gonna look ok. only ok?