Norco Bank Robbery Documentary - Part 3 of 3
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- The Norco shootout was an armed confrontation between five heavily armed bank robbers and deputies of the Riverside and San Bernardino County sheriff's departments in Norco, California, United States on May 9, 1980. Two of the five perpetrators and one sheriff's deputy were killed, 9 other law enforcement officers were injured, and gunfire damaged at least 30 police cars and one police helicopter.
At approximately 3:40 p.m. (UTC-7), five men armed with shotguns, an assault rifle, handguns, and an improvised explosive device robbed the Norco branch of Security Pacific Bank. Deputies of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department responding to the bank robbery call confronted the perpetrators outside the bank and a shootout ensued, killing one perpetrator. The perpetrators then stole a vehicle in the bank parking lot and fled the scene, leading police on a 25-mile (40 km) car chase into neighboring San Bernardino County. Riverside County deputies were joined in the pursuit by officers of other area law enforcement agencies, including the California Highway Patrol and San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. The perpetrators then ambushed the pursuing deputies and engaged them in another shootout in unincorporated San Bernardino County near Lytle Creek before escaping into a wooded area in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains.
Watch it from part 1: • Norco Bank Robbery Doc...
This is the best documentary I have ever seen on this robbery. Thank you for posting it. The images of the interiors of the units brought back lots of memories.
My Criminal Investigation teacher at RCC was a retired detective who worked the case. I had never heard of it before this (2007) and he showed us many of the crime scene photos. He passed in 2014, unfortunately. Great guy.
I always find it a minor annoyance when perpetrators are referred to as 'suspects'. A suspect is someone you have reason to believe committed an act. If you have eyes on and are engaging you're no longer suspected of an act, you're the one(s) doing it.
Cant believe I worked across the street and never heard about this until today
came here because of your last video (first ride with Z125).
Carl’s Jr.?
7 years late, but were you completely high for the previous 37 years?
Very brave and heroic deputies and officers.
Interesting to see how they managed to assemble a documentary without having any video footage to use.
Video Footage? This was 1980. There wasn't a really good portable video system available that was cheap enough to have numerous local cameramen on hand. Portable Video was still a new and bulky analog technology that required a portable separate Beta tape recorder that hung from the cameraman's sholder like a purse while he hoisted the heavy camera on his sholder. Expensive! Usually the big network stations in the inner city had those. Suburban locations like Norco, most local journalist were still working with cameraman shooting 16mm film. Even though those guys were very proficient cameramen, they were also not as numerous and therefor not often available to catch News action in the moment. They often came in later for the interviews. That's why breaking news on TV would often say something like, "Norco bank robbery occurred today. 2 dead. Massive firefight insued. Film at 11!" That meant tune in at the 11pm News to see the film location interviews because the shot film had to go through the lab first to get fixed and then telecine transferred to video. Stevo also pointed out news choppers which is a good point. There wasn't that many News choppers back then and they were mostly flying in the inner city.
@@digitalfilmjat6534 Most news was provided by radio at the time instead of live tv on site for these type of breaking events. On TV you'd get a still shot of the reporter and their location and just hear their voice over a handheld radio.
@@digitalfilmjat6534 I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you don't seem fun to be around. Can't you agree with the comment without being a know-it-all condescending human?
It's actually a training film, made by Irvine PD. Rolf Parks, the Deputy whose name is said a lot in it, went to work for Irvine PD after this happened. He was the reason it was made, he helped make it. That's how they have all the crime scene photos and drawings in it.
WTF I've lived in Riverside for 31 years and have never heard or known about this. crazy...
we lived on troth around the corner from the house where those 2 lived they passed in front of our house,we saw the guys in the back of the truck they werent shooting but we did see the guns,they wreaked a lot of havoc
This is the craziest story I ever heard by far. The book Norco 80 by Peter Houlahan is great too and needs a Greenlight
These policemen risked as well as gave up their lives to society.
this was a perfesional paramilitary opperational bank robbery for lol 20,000$ not worth it.
This right here is why our law enforcement agencies carry much heavier weapons than they did in the 1980's. It's unfortunate but I believe officers should be allowed to carry whatever they need to get the job done. Had a couple of these cops been armed with AR-15s at the onset this may have gone down very differently.
Good documentary,thanks for posting it!.Heard of the robbery before,but didn't know anything much about it 'til now.Seems senseless...
I can't even imagine being in a shitstorm like this with nothing but a .38.... I remember directly after this happened, I was sitting at a light in Norco and a Sheriff's unit pulled up next to my truck and I noticed the 870 had a sling on it with 25 rounds on it, half of them green, (slugs) and the rest red, (buckshot) . Just like the North Hollywood deal, slugs would have been a big help if they had had them.
SBSO ended up mounting machine guns on their helicopters after this. 50 cals on the Hueys and had door gunners. Didn't last long, but they did it for a short time. Bad part about slugs though, is they don't go through body armor. On patrol though, I would have my tube loaded with slugs, and the side saddle with buck. If i was going to use it, I wanted to have a 1oz punch. It would still be felt with body armor.
WTF, this is like the keystone cops; even a patrol cruiser was struck by a train and destroyed....hahaha
They scolded one cop for screaming into the radio. He responded like a child would . He needed the adrenaline.
I used to shoot in the lytle creek shooting area during those years always was a few shady looking folks up there most were typical target shooters but you knew the criminals from LA went there to shoot as well.
But these weren't from LA though.
Had they just decided not to go through with their plans their guns alone today would be worth more than the 20 grand they got out of the bank.
I've been trying to get a copy of the feature movie with Gedrick but cannot find it for American dvd player? Do you have a copy by chance boroboy boro? Thanks, Roger,
Amazing story
North Hollywood eat your heart out.... Jeeez loueeez…..
Can someone give me the coordinates of the washout of the second gun battle in Lytle Creek?
They did all that shit for $20 grand 😐🤷🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Yeah.
These criminals really believe they could get away with it z
I was living there when it happened. People forget about this sad
incident and think that The Bank of America shootout in North Hollywood
was the first incident like this. I am sure with what is going on in
this country with more islamic terrorist like the ones in San Berdo,
that these kinds of incidents will happen.
The fact that the NOHO robbery was filmed certainly makes a big difference.
Read up on prohibition-era police shootouts. There are some crazy ones that lasted days and involved the criminals switching cars multiple times.
These guys are crazy. Rip soldiers
I’m confused, Wikipedia says James Evans worked with the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department, this video says he worked with the Riverside Sheriff’s Department
Which one is true?
Riverside county sheriff's department Norco station
@@LuisGomez-yy7rj thank ye
i grow up in MiraLoma when this shit went Down... i remember
14:29. no wonder he was miserable. Small man.
"He inadvertently shot himself in the heart while falling to the ground" . . . . lol . . . .right . . . yeah, that's what happened lol
Exactly what I thought
He was already on the ground...lying on his stomach. When the deputies ordered him to freeze, he instantly rolled to his left side. The deputies saw the pistol in his right hand and fired their weapons. Delgado discharged the handgun into his own chest at the same moment, right into his heart. It can’t be said for certain whether he did so accidentally, or intentionally. But the Coroner said that the self-inflicted shot was the one that killed him.
“The coroner said”
Yep. I realize that a Coroner’s report based on an autopsy done at the time is much less compelling than idle speculation by UA-cam commenters 40 years later...but whatcha gonna do?
What would it matter? What would benefit from them trying to cover it up? They did shoot at him, they hit him, they were trying to kill him, so you would think it would look better to say they shot atnd killed him, and make the cops out to be the heroes at that particular point in time wouldn't it? Kinda dumb to question it, without realizing what you're questioning.
40 years ago wasn't like today, everyone wanted these guys dead, including the public, so saying the cops killed him would actually look better, not worse.
He no doubt pulled the trigger involuntarily to getting shot. It's not like it's disputed they shot at him, so not like they have to hide the fact they were shooting to kill him.
It would have been easier to let them have the money
Ayatrollah Ali 20k was definitely not worth the lives of 3 people and the destruction of dozens of cop cars
That's not much of a deterrent. Anything you tolerate you'll often get more of.
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them and do nothing." Albert Einstein
@@ryanthompson8054 damnnn 😳
Just got trained!
@dale porter the movie is great you should watch it Jason Gedrick plays the cop who chases them until they all caught them guys the robbers had some balls ill tell ya that
senseless...
Another indication America was becoming no country for old men.
I thought norco ment north corona
It does.
I know it's old, but it does. It was named Norco after the North Corona Land Company. When Corona first became a city in 1886, Corona was actually called South Riverside first.
NORth + COrona = Norco
Accuracy at a half mile away? I doubt that. Seems a bit exaggerated. Shooting at a half mile is 800 yards, and the best snipers with high end optics are able to do that, but not some slap dicks with AR-15’s.
It was aiming for accuracy. It was shooting at police cars on a multi-lane highway driving straight. It would be like shooting at the side of a barn. Easy to do. You will hit something. They were not specifically aiming for a driver. At it made it easier with the light bars. All they had to do was look towards the steady burning red light in the bars that was not flashing. In CA all emergency vehicles had to have a steady red burning, non-flashing light to the front. Up until LEDs started being used, halogen lights could be seen 3 miles away before any flashing lights. Makes it real easy to know what you are aiming towards at a distance.
It's proof enough they were taking damage at that distance. They didn't need to be precision riflemen, just need to shoot in a certain direction, they were not trying to hit a playing card at half mile away. Same way they were lucky enough to get some hits on a moving helicopter.
They must take the copter out!
two down, three to go
The family of the dead officer are the ones who got "bank" on that day.