Metallica Member Remembers Being Caught In The Center Of A Manson Household Shootout

Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, recounted in a latest interview his expertise of being caught in the midst of an notorious shootout involving the Manson household.

Trujillo appeared on rock band The Offspring’s podcast, “Time to Chill out with The Offspring,” on Thursday, and described the violent scene that unfolded in 1971, shortly after Charles Manson was arrested. The 59-year-old bassist stated he was a younger youngster on the time and was staying along with his grandparents at an condo in Hawthorne when the cult’s raid on a close-by surplus retailer changed into an notorious shootout.

“The military surplus store there across the nook on Hawthorne Boulevard was robbed,” Trujillo stated. “Mainly, the Manson Household had this grand scheme — you may test it out on the web — they have been gonna rob the gun retailer and get their ammo and all the things, and so they have been gonna go to LAX.”

“They have been going to go to LAX and their plan was to hijack a 747 and demand that Charlie will get despatched to them, and so they’re gonna take this airplane to God is aware of the place. That is what they have been pondering,” he added.

That’s when the rocker stated issues received scary for him.

“Clearly, the plan didn’t work. Cops present up. There’s a shootout,” he stated. “We have been listening to gunshots, the entire deal. So abruptly you get the [police helicopters], and so they’re flying round. They’re speaking by their intercom, no matter they received going up there: ‘Everyone, take cowl’ … And so my dad turns off all of the lights.”

“We’re hiding within the bathe, and it was actually eerie,” Trujillo added.

He then advised the hosts {that a} member of the Manson Household took cowl within the carport that belonged to his grandparents’ condo unit.

“He was hiding within the carport, so in fact they surrounded our place,” he defined, making clear simply how shut he was to the scene. “Fortunately, there was a laundry room that separated the unit that we have been in, so he would’ve gone into the window of the laundry room, which may have been the window of the home after which taken hostage.” (RELATED: Graphic Video Reveals Rapper Arrested Amid Gunshots And Swimming pools Of Blood)

The well-known artist stated he and his pals went in search of bullets the subsequent morning and admitted he was usually scared of cult exercise after that harrowing expertise.

The 25-minute shootout between cops and the six Manson Members of the family ended with 5 of them in custody and three wounded, in keeping with a up to date New York Occasions report.