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* { Jaughter recalls FBI nightmar, sUGRTER /from 1A # Kilied. | looked up and said, ‘What? hat? What ned?" “Il immediately got pervous. I said. ‘My dad, at's my dad's case So I thought I'd call the fice to see If everything was OK.” . She used the phone in the fpurmatiem wssroom to contact her father’s office o one wanted to tell me the news,” ne sald. “They connected me to a whole ach of people. I said, “This is Suzanne =Neill. May f epeak to Gordon McNeill, zase? "Ob, they sald, “what do you want? . “T sald T Wanted to speak to him. They got rvous. ... Finally some lady got on, and I “gWhere’ ‘s my lather?’ Your aid, ‘wpeet. cher’s OK. He's In the hos: spital, we're sending gent to come get you. t that 7 me figured they just weren‘e iting me. ht he was dead and they tat went wt met over Che As she ran down a achool way te ® meet ‘agemt, She thought, “My God, this font ppening to me. This only heppens io ries,” she sald. “The thought of my father's Ife being in er never ever occurred to me IT know his 2 dangerous and | know the people: he orks with are dangerous people. You never “* it can happen to e agent took her to Beptist Hospital, here her father, a i%year FBI veteran, celved emergency treatment for a chest sund and band injuries guffered in a gun ttle with (wo-armored-car and bank robbers, item Matix and Michael Lee Platt. The robbers ans two FBI special agents, jamin Grogan and Gerald Dove, were ted. McN ‘and four other agents were yunded. pe first family member to see Gordon Suzenne waiched her father being hecled Into-an X-ray room on a gurney, " gow she ‘It was scary — seeing my big, strong dad helpless. It was totally different than I’d ever seen him.’ Suzanne McNeill was there and everything wai OK.” “When I think about what gould have happened ... my dad could easily have been Mr. Grogan or Mr. Dove. I just ge myself, he's #0 lucky. We're s Suzanne’ s mother sald that as ber husband left home Prigay morning ahe intuitively felt There weed be 2 teeek ty The case, “For some reason, just because he was goin out Friday — I mean be had such a persona vendetta against these people because they weza sea wins they id catch ep with thes two teat probably wom 'é happen,” said Mrs. McNelll, who worked for for elght years esa eocratary dor the Fi. As Suzanne spoke Tuesday afternoon, she sat comfortably on the ving room couch. No fights were on. Suzanne's blond, almost white, hair and plak sweater stood out in the shadows of the earth-tone room. On a table rested two remote-control units - for one television. “We're ali too lazy to get wp aod change the channel,” Suzanne seid. Anyway, one's broken, and Dad's pot home to ece was @ fresh flower The teble's cente were, along with fruit beskets and. gifts, ringed the room. One card was signed by Miam! Vice star gobnuot oe ee hom the parents of Beth Ken a victim of sex-killer her 2 =r. Gordon McNeill worked on the er irks tmedate atermath ofthe Friday’ shootings, Suzanne said, “It was crazy” — bu ean fefiect on and talk about what Friday i-felt relied, relief,” she aid. “De Saturday Kt was . ht was a total . & Biond curl that a. would do to him mentally. M father | even th though it wasn't his fault. Those Suzanne sald her father hed neve ‘danger and frustrations of his job with hig famity Hie. “Gometimes I think my dad and agent are two different people. I have respect for hime now. 2 didn't reallze | scary. she sald. “He is funny, # funny. Everybo him. Paalinid we ot alt oe cals an people wri mg ane siting, T respecte much because of how P saw othe respected him,” she said. uzanne remembers her father’s antics at her birthday party when sh the elghth grade. “He came out on thi wig and a pink tutu — to embarrass me,” dhe sald. “| have ao much more respect nov because I realize the za the great deal deal of of pres what responsibilities Sie, You con't pack hut wp 3 go home,” Suranne sal “He was the of the cas was realty hort about the two othe They were bis friends and his co-wo e really strange thing ls that Matix, “ves vine blocks away. My after him for so long, chasing him a town, and be probably passed bir on Suzanne said. . - Mrs. McNeill sald ber busband’s é set up s stakeout Friday for Matis | was “nothing more than just an hunch on his x “But, kno how bad they wert wast possible, possible hey e them ~— sever Ce thls Wolle recuperating from en wou clal Agent McNeill has described to 3 the emotional trauma of being shot. “He told me that he was tying the ground thinking he was paralyzed | uzatne sald, “He didot think he hed He sald ali he could think about wa mom and my sister. ” Suzanne's perception of her father sion has changed. “At school, palestine have always | “ ob wow And aeel’ Sheet 7 change. On Friday, I was happy for bis just to what was