On May 9th, 1980, five heavily armed men stormed the Norco branch of the Security Pacific Bank, demanding 20,000 dollars in cash. What happened next became a legendary gunfight that poured out of the bank and into the streets of a California city. It’s a shootout that’s long fascinated me, one where everything went wrong for both sides, and ended as violently as it started. The Perpetrators George Smith and Christopher Harven were small-time po…
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