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FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 — Part 2
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7 heard a crash - ——
then all the ‘gunshots?
By Sohn Platero
m LAMI — For nearly 10 minutes Friday, the peace-
fal country community of Kendallook on the air of
the Depression-era 1930s, when #BI agents gained
‘thelr fame in savage
“Sys bank robbers Ma Bar Dillinger. _
106 shots fired,” the street was littered with spent
shells, weapons, bleodstains, pleces of clothing, 2 bul-
letproof vest, wrecked vehicles and First-Aid rem-
pants left by paramedics, who treated wounded FBI
agents before they were flown or driven to nearby
hospitals.
at began Friday mornin ase sufveillance mis-,’
‘gion ended with a shoot-out that Efainied the lives of”
two FBI agents and two snepects wed left three other
agents hospitalized with serious gunshot wounds and
two. agents grazed by gunfire.
“This is a real quiet neighborbood,” t
Bul Norman, as he stared at four bodies lying on the
east side of 82nd Avenue, a few feet south of Southwest
133rd Street. “Well, it was,” be said.
Two blocks to the north of the gunfight, it t, it was
business as usual at Sunniland said Bly
. “I was watering the plants,” said olloway, 43,
a witness to the shootout that occurred about 9:30 4.10,
-“] heard a crash and then all the gunshots. It was
unbelievable, I ran out to the street. There were two
le, one of each side of the street, shooting toward
trees.”
. Mirsculously, no no bystanders were hit ‘although eey-
eral vebice drove by as the agents abd suspects
exc ed gunfire.
_“Tcalled 911 and asked them to send police to block
off the street before zormeone got shot driving by,” said
Bob Stebbins, #4, Bolloway's flance. “There was one
hell of a hall of bullets.
Stebbins, a financial planner, marveled that one
FBI agent ie ares mode Nea ear on the west
_ Hide yes fe ainalet 0 ty thpar overrun éach time &@
‘the
Kontt keow w what the bed eft ser a
_ were doing,” be
Estimates wire that perhaps 158 rodnds were fired
from ¥ a C Wee’
revolvers, shoigons snd reverb tout t6 blocks
-- - Fhe fatal shootout, however,
. voath, Authorities would not say actly where, but It
t to hgve been in the tizinity of «Barnett
& 1 and Southwest ei See a as
Bank oo,
hy wit thet es of Ditiages
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“It was a logical day” to look for potentia! holdu
ee Joseph Corless, special agent in charge of the
| Mim FBI office. Tt was Friday, the day wheg heavy
picker and deliveries are made by armored cars and
UW ebecks ue Of EurTEREY on and 10 cash
‘Jdentities of possible suspects as well as the license
umber of a stolen car used in an egriier robbery,
‘When two agents on survellisnce saw the Suspect
Monte Carle and verified the vehidle was stolen, they
radiged for support and stayed In pursuit.
As the suspects ed borth on 82nd Avenue, the
ts attempted Yo stop them around 1$3rd Street.
"“] thought a bunch of firecrackers had gone off, but
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