Western Surplus Store. 13355 S.Hawthorne Blvd. On location in Los Angeles. Cielodrive.com:: The Story of The Charles Manson Family and Their Victims

Western Surplus Store
13355 S. Hawthorne Blvd.
On August 21, 1971, the LAPD responded to a silent alarm set-off at a Western Surplus store in Hawthorne. They arrived in time to catch 6 family members in the middle of an armed robbery, after a brief shootout, the family members were detained. Arrested were: Catherine Share, Mary Brunner, Charles Lovett, Lawrence Bailey, Kenneth Como, and Dennis Rice. The group had stolen close to 150 guns, which they intended on using, while hijacking a 747 jumbo jet, in which, they would kill one passenger every hour until Manson and company were released from prison.

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After the shootout.

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