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My et ARS 40 rounds a minute . Ap tatenme in the Monte Carlo, Matix and Platt had two other weapons on the seat. Platt liked the short Smith & Wesson l2-gauge shot- gun, fitted with 2 pistol grip. The | gun has no stock and measures about Cree feet. Matix had a Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic as- sauit rifle. It hes = folding stock and e 30 shot-clip. It can fire 40 rounds # minute. — Grogan and Dove didn't koow ¢ exactly what was tn the Monte Carlo as they trailed it through the quiet neighborhood. “Southwest Bist Road, heading south again,” Grogan said calmly into the car radio. Other agents were moving in fast. “Right behind ya, bebe, give me & cross street.” hh was Special Agent John Hanlon. He was in a gold Chrysler, 1983 model. Special Agent Edmun- do. Mireles was in the seat beside him. The Monte Carlo turned right on 120th Street, then a quick left onto trop any gunfire. B2nd Avenve. Special Agent Rich- ard. A. Manauzzi, in a gray Buick, fell in behind the gold Chrysler. That made four cars in a row: The suspects in the Monte Carlo, Grogan and Dove In the yellow Buick, Hanlon and Mireies In the gold Chrysier and Manauzzi in the grey Buick. ; They were doing about 35 miles an hour es they passed Dr. H.R. Frick's Anima! Orthopedic Hospi- tal and the rear of @ Farm Store, where delilverymen were unload- ing boxes. “_™ “Ben, we're right behind ys. Ben,” Hanlon radioed. “Do you wart-te-tio it? Let's do It.” Lettre cme “Let's get some marked units, ptonte Carlo. bet’s get some,” Grogan said. Happened too fast They dido't. Everything hap: pened too fast. “4 just jooked at ther and there are guys holding up something in the car," Grogan said. Matix. and Platt were grabbing their guns. The time: 9:18. Grogan made a decision. “Felony car stop,” he ordered. “Let's do it.” At the FBI Academy in Quanti- eo, Va., every agent is taught how to make @ felony car stop. The procedure is dlagrammed, execut- ed snd reviewed as carefully asa | military landing or a football play. Qther law enforcement agencies teach modified versions of the felony car stop procedure. In every case, the object is to stop a- fleeing vehicle while enabling police ts control the vehicle's movement and maintain cover his time, it didn’t work. Grogan accelerated around the Monte Carlo, almost certainly on the driver's side, according . to erime-scene technicians who mea sured tire tracks afterward, Han- Romano i “sR lon, in the gold Chrysler, gunned the engine and tried to pull up on the right side of the Monte Carlo, as Manayzzi moved up behind it. Platt swerved the Monte Carlo to the right, bashing Hanton's gold Chrysier on the left front quarter panel and driver's door. Both cars rebounded and spun out obeensrel. sii ri pat aoa meneame The Chrysler knocked down 8 three-foot post, took out a spindly meiaicuca tree acd slammed into the wall of a Florids Power & Light substation. e Monte Carlo shot up onto the in the same direction and wprooted another melaleuca. Piatt yanked_the wheel jo a sharp left ure and accelerated, trying to cgomplete a U-turn. ear hit another thick, three-foot post. Green radiator fluid spewed awildly. The Monte Carlo stalled. ‘Grogan made a U-turn about 30 yards down the road. Manauzzl did the same in the driveway of the FPL station, fust north of the Platt got the car going again. completed the U-turn and bolted north. The stall gave Manauzzi st enough time to complete his eturn. AS the Monte Carlo rock- eted north up the street, Manauzzi rammed it hard on the driver's €. The two cars careened up and Over the sidewalk and slammed into a 20-year-old bottiebrush tree. They had traveled maybe 30 yards, locked together. Startled heighbors peered from windows. The time: 9:20. “The. bloodlest shoot-out’ in FBI history began seconds later. Matix clambered out the Monte \Carlo’s passenger-side window. He couldn't get his door open because it was wedged tightly against @ cet already parked in the driveway, e shiny black Cutlass. It belonged to Cory Sukeri. 2], a University of Miami senior. He was in the house, looking out. He saw Matix. clenching the “Mini-14 assault rifle, slither across the Cutlass’ hood. Sukert thought first of bis car polish, then he hit the floor, Frantically, he «sergm- Please turn to SHOOT-OUT /21A