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FD-350 (Rev. 5-86-81) * {Mount Cipping in Space space Baow) (indicate page. name of hewspaper, cly “nd state) FBI: | age “yt * ee BA? By Michael Carri r . “ end Then Chrict * ex Mow, Service 2 MIAMI — To their friends and Sueighbors, William R. Matix and his +family man buddy Michael Lee Platt were simply hard-working friends whoran a small landscaping business «that had provided them both good -hormes and hopes for the future. ~ But, after Matix and Platt were skilled in a gun battle in which two [FBI agents died and five more agents *were wounded Friday, a side to their ‘lives that. the two men had kept hid- ‘den began to unravel. ' “T'mm devasiated,” said one woman who lives in the same quiet cul-de-sac “in the Hammocks subdivision where 4 Platt lived with his wife and their ‘four children for the past year. Their poor little kids. That's who “I'm hurting for.” 2 The FBI says Matix, 35, and Platt, 732, actually were so ruthless t team of “armed robbers and killers, suspects “sin & violent string of armored car and . bank holdups, most of them in Ken- ‘dail, and unincorporated area of 7 200,000 people south of Miami. The “pair also are believed to have been :tbe gunmen in two killings at a west - Dade County rock pit where police 2 asay they apparently liked to fire off ‘bursts of gunfire from automatic _ weapons. . Both men’s homes. were within a 2 Oe tensen Lig ‘dozen miles of the street corner * where they died. 42h + Platt and his wife Brenda had lived ~ in their rented, two-story house less than a year, according to neighbors. ~ Police briefly sealed off an area “around the home after the shooting . ~and searched the residence, which = has a for sale sign in the front yard. i. Police said Matiz was engaged to 4 be married. < Both men, who worked with Platts 4 3 brother Tim In a gardening company f _ , called Broad Cutters, had no crimi * record, police said. + While there initially was nothing to , indicate the two men were related to : 2 any revolutionary or terrorist group, | = the FEMs director, William Webster, . said in Washington, “We are looking ‘into that aspect very carefully.” Law enforcement officials were ena” anturoed a ba i ee ty Operate abe Suspects H Secret Lives Well , vgpltal after belng chet do the arm, Date: 4/ 13/ 86 FM"THE PALM BEACH POST PAGE 1A Hid" Title: Character: pearances as average surburbanites. or “What they didis completely out of Classiication: character and abnormal! to the type Submitting Office: of lives they were leading,” said Met- vo-Dade police robbery Sgt. Tony Monheim. “Obviously, these guys were very Strange people, but their home life was normal. ft don't under- stand it.” Also killed in the 10-minute gun battle were FBI Special Agents Ben- jamin T. Grogan, 53, and Jerry Dove, 30. Grogan was 4 25-year FBI veter- * Dove had been an FBI agent since 1882. A Miami banker started a fund yesterday for the famities of the dead and wounded agents. Joseph Kanter, chairman of the board of Miami- based Bank of Florida, said Miami Vice star Don Johnson was the first contributor to the fund. Grogan, a native of Brunswick, Ga, “was a friend forever," FBI agent David Jellison said. “Mr oe ye was in good company.” Grogan and his wife attended Vis!- tation Catholic Church. A funeral Mass said by Archbishop Edward McCarthy of Miami will be held there Monday. ; tote Five other FBI agents were wounded: vers Gordon McNeill, 43,2 19-year FBI veteran and supervisory agent, who was listed in serious but stable | condition at Baptist Hospital in South Miami with gunshot wounds to the chest and hand: ; mere eee John Hanlon, 48, a 22. -year vet- eran special agent, listed in serious but stable condition in Baptist Hospi- tat with gunshot wounds to the band and thigh i” Edmundo Mireles, 33, a six - year veteran special agent, listed in stable condition in South Miaml Hog- Richard A. Manacrzi, 43, » #16 ¥eleran specia] agent, trea faperficial wounds at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami andre: sed, a # Gilbert Orrantia, 27, @ four- yer weteran special agent, treated for superficial wounds at Jackson Memorial Hospital and released. FBI officials in Miami and Wash- ington, including Webster, called thé shoantoud tha hinndiacd incident in the OES SES ET WENGER MET a .- Feo