LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23 – Five suspects captured in an attempted robbery and 10-minute shootout with police in Hawthorne were identified Sunday as followers of cultist and condemned murderer Charles Manson.

A sixth suspect was being sought. He was identified as Charles Allen Lovett, 19, a brown-eyed, goateed, 165-pounder with the Manson “family” X scratched on his forehead.

The object of the raid on the Western Surplus Store, 13355 S. Hawthorne Blvd., was guns, not money, police said. The robbers had smashed gunracks and collected about 140 guns when officers arrived in response to a silent alarm Saturday night.

Three of the suspects, Catherine (Gypsy) Share, 26, Mary Brunner, 26, and Lawrence Edward Bailey, 22, were wounded by shotgun pellets in the gunfight. All were reported in fair condition in the jail ward at County-USC Medical Center.

None of the officers was hit.

The trio, along with Dennis Rice, 32, and Kenneth Como, 31, a Folsom Prison escapee, were booked on charges of armed robbery and attempted murder.

Authorities could only speculate about the motive of the raid and possible use of the guns. Said Lt. Larry Dykehouse of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s homicide detail:

“During the course of the trials (hearings involving Manson and other family members) threats have been made against judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, the district attorney and others, and it also has been stated that Manson and the other defendants would be freed.”

The 36-year-old Manson, convicted and sentenced to death earlier this year for the seven Tate-LaBianca murders, currently is on trial in the combined Gary Hinman – Donald (Shorty) Shea murder case.

Hawthorne Police Sgt. Richard Prentice gave this account of the holdup attempt, and gunfight:

Three clerks and two customers were in the Hawthorne store shortly after 9 p.m. when one of the robbers, armed with a sawed-off shotgun, entered and ordered them to lie on the floor.

The rest of the group went to the gunracks and display cases, collecting rifles, shotguns and handguns for loading in a white 1966 Ford van parked in the alley behind the store.

While the robbers worked, one of the clerks tripped a silent alarm.

The suspects saw a two-man police car arrive in front of the store and started to flee in the van, but the way was blocked.

Lt. James Kobus had just pulled across the alley with the driver’s side of his patrol car facing the truck. He was standing by the door with his radio microphone in hand when gunfire came from the van.

Kobus’ car was struck 20 times by buckshot and automatic rifle slugs. The officer returned the fire over the hood of his car.

Backup units responded to Kobus’ radio call and eight Hawthorne officers were involved in the gunfight when sheriff’s deputies and units from Redondo Beach and Manhattan Beach police departments and the California Highway Patrol arrived.

Sometime during the shootout, police said, the suspects ran from the van. At this time, police opened fire with shotguns and the three suspects were wounded. The sixth member of the group escaped.

Police said Miss Share was struck in the left hip and back by shotgun pellets. Bailey was hit in the knees and Miss Brunner was wounded in her right hand.

Their van had been hit by more than 50 shots.

“Gypsy” Share and Mary Brunner were closely associated with Manson in the clan leader’s days in Say Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district and at Spahn Movie Ranch in Chatsworth.

Miss Share testified in Manson’s behalf in the Tate-LaBianca trial and Miss Brunner named her son Michael Manson.

Rice and “Gypsy” served brief jail sentences during the 9 1/2-month Tate-LaBianca trial after pleading no contest to charges of spiking a hamburger with LSD and giving it to a prosecution witness.

Como escaped from the Hall of Justice July 23. He had been brought here from Folsom to testify In the Shea murder case.

By GRAHAME JONES and JOHN KENDALL