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FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 — Part 3

79 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Apr 12, 1986 · Broad topic: General · Topic: FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 · 79 pages OCR'd
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¥ waat mereweann aunt Cappmg “Ki llers? li ace t Beiow) . ptt TEELLITS pr robed TN a a Christy Matix insisted early this By MARC SER year that unless ber pucband mpierak Sich Writers agreed to pay her $500 a month In As relatives buried the second child support, she would “simply FBI agent slain in last week's lt the husband forget.the boy suburban shoot-out, detectives ever existed.” Tuesday Investigated connections between killers William Matix and Michael Piatt and South Dade’a Rock Pit robbery At a West D. 2 rock pit on March 12, two men shot and wounded Jose Coilazo and robbed him of his gun, money and Chevrolet Monte Carlo — the very game car Matix and Platt used In Friday's Kendall shoot-out. During the gunfight agents Benjamin Gro- gan and Gerald Dove vere killed apd five oibers were wounded. The disintegrating home life of Matix, the born-again Christian who would go on to become the main marksman in the bloodiest event In FBI history, was one of several developments Tuesday: @ In South Charleston, W. Va., 400 local, state and federal law enforcement officers, including FEI Director Willlam Webster, attended a private funeral service for Special Agent Dove. His part- ner, Grogan, will be buried today in Brunswick, Ga. ee ee ee ee ee ee Matiz and Plstt also were killed. We Tape & aoe Ss Qne of fie rock pe robbers Ser agents.” Webster, who carried a Roger Miol-14 seadiacte- dedvered the . “Paty aoe matic rifle, the same type of @ave afl be can. He served weapon Matix used against FBI country well. cathe March Qook case Tuseday finished ig face at moe om four en a hell re later, Matiz sat In a well- furnished Coral Gables law office, responding to queries about his Alvores, eourt records show, Court files show that Matix’s “second wife, Christy Horne Matix, asked a Dade court to dissolve her marriage fast October. She said she lived with Matix for less than two months and thet the marriage waa-“bretrievably bro- en.” ing witnesses and prepared é ef FBI supervisors on thelr findings Thursday. State Atiormey. nk to Fock i: FRE MIAMI peRazo Miami, Plorida a ‘Page BA eoton BROWARD April 16, 1986 apa Seyge THe ta acter or ‘Clars "cation using Ottice MIAMI cwtene re 2, opm rit cee fia ee rere
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