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FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 — Part 2
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Surviving agent |
shot two killers |
despite wounds |
i : tne men
SHOOT-OUT /from 1A who oehot ti the ern Whine R.
Saturday. “Somehow, Mireles got : : Matix se astin Rane
to the car, f don't know how. He :
: robberies of armored cars and
killed them both with his revoiv. panks, the killing of one bank
or” . guard i tw
The agent's heroism was one of we they are also caapected of
the few bright spots in a tragedy shooting at least three other
that jeft two agents and the two ple at a West Dade rock pit
®utpected bank robbers dead and Freq vented by target shooters, but
five other agents wounded Friday police say neither man had a
a hell of automatic weapons fire .
on 8 quiet, tree-lined Kendall | <ininl i tor vice
street. ved in
No passers-by were wounded in sion they See ean wether
the shooting, largely because the “Sgt. Toy Monheim sald Saturday.
Erect ‘unt they were ons ide | “We'fe obviouly looking at them
street and held thelr fire when | to have to pail an th the logbooks
motorists kot in. the way: “for the pest two years.”
ve Saturday, Metro-Dade detec-
ves and agents were gortin
through ballistics reports, wit | Still confusion
mea? tah oo 6 ean eh.
ore
Matements and a plie oF on surroundin
using physical evidence while ag tne ree of Mireles
ere sought to comfort the. emerged Saturday as one of the
friends and family of ehe victims few things about which detectives
President Reagan telephoned eo¢ FBI agents aré certain. ~~
Sandra Grogan, the widow of [come of the confusion stems
a Po nes
‘special agent Benjamin Grogas, ft om the actions of Plett and
ane Patricia Dove the mother o Matix, They had
giain agen ve.
‘+ FBI spokeaman Paul Miller re- Se ace’ both ther wives
genet, ee agents Gordon ,<‘ ed mysterious éeaths. After that,
wer i 43, and Jobo | Hanlon, 48, “Ors two men were always togeth-
es, s died, « -
who was wounded by a bullet 30° Agents: Investigators and wit
ceanigeee aw Caddees pave this account: After #
be in serious but stable condi- ‘gweld chase up South Dirle
B Saturday at South Miami -* av. Blatt and Matin smashed |
Hospi ‘etielr car into # tree alongside -
A tearm of invest] tors from the. Southwest S2nd Avenue nie
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