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FBI shooting scene colored by death, curious crowds SCENE /from IA already burgundy, turning to brown in the heat. A shotgun Jay nearby, five empty green shells shining ike emeralds on the pavement. A few feet eway was 2 black-barreled pistol! and, beyond that, what looked Uke an automatic rifle. During the chase, two cars had crunched into s bottle-brush tree, its blossoms crimson; beneath Its outer branches were two cream-colored FBI] Buicks, one pocked by dullet holes. The brake Ughts were on ii On. Once all this had been noted and absorbed, there was little else to see. The shooting had lasted only minutes. It had been quiet for hours now, and still we stood and watched. The wounded were gone, the dead were silent. Up the ramp came several Palmetto High School students, some skippiog cless, others taking an extra-long lunch break. None of them was clownin around, but the distance from the bodies made casual talk an easier thing. *-"-—~ A blond teen-ager In a sleeveless T-shirt watched for a few minutes, then tummed to go. “Death in Miami,” he said to some friends. “It's nice to know we live in such a nice ay - Another student, Mark Saymon, asked to borrow a Photographer's telephoto lens, to get a closer look. He sald this was his third shoot-out scene; the others were a bank holdup and a Farm Store robbery. “Nothing like this,” Saymon said. “I can't believe they Jet that dude lie In the sun.” e dude was dead, of course. He was one of the suspects. Pot-bellied guy with black hair. He lay on his back. His left arm was taped where the paramedics had tried to get some fluids going before giving up; the chubby guy's clothes were soaked with too much blood. A man wearing rubber gloves fished ‘through the dead man's pockets. What gripe onlookers at such times is the proximity of recent death. The danger Is past, but the aftermath transiixes. On television, blazing shoot-outs are followed by commercials. Regl-lfe murder scenes do not dissolve oo easily; not in the eye, not in the mind. The color of death ls unforgettable. +s