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FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 — Part 3
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wife of David Jelileon,
fovestigators continue to took for a white Ford
pickup beronging to Matix that detectives believe
way contaln evidesice that the pair committed other
esimes. Police belleve the truck was used Ip earllar :
robbery getaways,
While there intially was nothin to: indicate the
ie men Were related to any revolutionary or terror-
ist group. the FRPe director, Willain H. Webster, sald
Wy sshington, “We are looking inte that espect very
terete
Law Yonforcement officials were pusziad by the
mene’ outward airancet ws average surburbanites.
"What the is completely out of character and
abnormal to the type of lives they were leading,” said
Metro police robbery Sgt. Tony Monhelm, “O vias.
iy, these guys were very strange people, but thelr
yome Wife was normal. I don? understand It."
A Platt neighbor said be talked to Platt’s i 7-year-
eld Btepson ter the shooting, but the Boy did pat
Want to discuss the Inchtest.
“They were fast a plee family, that's why Tm real- .
ty
by ly tn ahock,” said the man who arked not to be
Alas ket fs the 1O-misute a battle, whith wit-
pest geld began near 134th Street and Southwest
82nd Avenue, were FRI epecial agents Beajamia T.
Grogen, 83, and Jerry Gove, 30. Grogen wee a 35-
yn FRI veteran. Deve had been an FRI agent ance
Grogen, a native of Brunewick, Ga., was » ey
qutet, caring person ~~ a mother-hen
with Ale friends,” according te Mary Jehicen, "the
Tt agent who, worked
Grogan.
“Grogen waa @ friend forever,” David Fetison
gald. “Ide. Dove wae ls good company.”
Helen Bergert, who met Grogan in the 1960s when
ahe worked with the FST ae 0 clviifas, deseribed him
asa mild-mannered man with @ pleasant, easy-going
yie. fy. jaat Arwted him pe Good Friday when he
rought his mother’s pood puppy er grooming
parlor, Bergert sabi.
Grogan and his wife attended Visitation Catholic:
Charch, 19160 N. Miami Ave. A fuserel Maas said
ald by~
Archbishop Edward MeCarthy of Miami will be hel
there at I p.m. Monday. “
Five other FR] agents were wounded:
Gordon McNeill, 48, a 19-year FHI vetehen and
supervisory agent, who was listed In serious but ste
Sle conditien fn Baptist Hosplts! with gunshot
wounds to the chest and hand.
i John Hanlon, 48, @ 22-year veteran special
agent, Usted fn eerlous but stable condition fn a
Hoepitas with gunshot wounds fo the hand and th
i Edmundo Mirelez, 25, a six-year veteran 8 am
peat, listed in stable condition in South Mam! Hos-
tal aftes joelng shotdn the arm.
Richard A. Manauzzi. 43, 8 18-year veteran
specalcg ent, treated for supe rfictat wounds at fack-
eons Memorial Hospttel and relessed:
* Glibert Orrantla, 27, a four-year veteran special
agest, treated for superficial wounds at seckson Me
goorial Hospital and released.
FRI 6! in Mise! and Washington D.C.
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were a ane eal so many agents Kilo and a
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two suspects, kanwa
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