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FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 — Part 3
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IENDS REMEMBER
Swrr—n"t ik parE thine growing up, Dove
wrote song iprics and planned to some.
_ 42y peblish them, Mra. Dove said, Bat
wasn't one of his strong points
_
“od rom West Virginis University aw Law Officers Honor ° he Kept the tunes rolling areund in
Sehool, then worked in the attorney
general's office until be was accepted
into the PRI Academy bs 198%.
He accepted his FEI commission in
Pittaburgh and worked fhere and in
Charieston and Hantingtan before mov-
ig San Megs, then to Miami,
g-time friend Larry Hatcher said
Dove was goal oriented. And before he
gel the PB] as his gos), he had already
decided to meet. a more challenging
te.
“He wanted ta make @ difference in
life, to do something important before
foe died." Larry said. “He knew that
long before he thought about the FRE
“Jerry hed a réal strong sense of
whal was right aod whal sac wrong
Be believed in making whatever sacri-
fices be bad to to do the right thing.”
And although Dove knew the risks of
Seeing an FRI agoat. be Giin't talk
Muck shout them, Hatcher exid.
"] gover had any fear that he would
be Ellled? he gaid “I think that’s. in
part becawe be downplayed that side
of ff te me”
Deve. who was more conservative
than bis counterparts growing up in the
"6G and ‘70s, was nonetheless popolar
among his peers, Hatcher said.
“His idea of & good Ume was to get
together af a pizza place and just
talk Hatcher said. “He sas sways
foncerned about our personal lives,
whe we were dating Asd he gave Jots
aft advice, whether we wanted it oe
a
Hig memory was asiounding and his
gease of humor was one of bis best
draits, Bis friends said. After seeitg a
movie once, Dove could recite lines
aod jokes from it and do inipressions
. eb the actors. list Easteroog_ movies
* Sereartong bis favorites.
“TH never forget, one evening we
had made plans to go to the drive-in
movies io get a double feature of Clint
Eastwood,” Hatcher aaid. “T wag ialk-
lag to my girilfiend’s parents and Jer-
% ty drives ap wearing a poncho
© Gressed ap as Wise Mee and went doar
’ do-doos throngh the mow Ip their ball
vobes, barefooted and wearlag
Slain Federal Agent -
MIAMI {AP} ~ Hundreds of law "
ficers, their badges banded in black!
filled a small church as the FRI eulog
ised ane of its own slain ip the hweay’s
bloadiest day,
FB) Director William Webster, wbo
fiew by helicopter to visit two bospi-
tals where wounded. agents are recav-
‘oie Gade eB FA abi ene fee he
memetreeomas
ere
Mor aE, FELIEM GAME. & aun URE SE REE
funeral of Benjamia J. Grogan, 54.
Webster, who met privately with,
Grogan’s widow after the Roman Cath-
alic service, vowed 28 Intensive inves-
Ligation af the tea Ruspects, Wilkem
Sater, Mand Michal Piet,
“We Rave not. yet jolene them to
anyone else.” Webster said, "Before,
we're through, wé going to know every:
thing abost them from the time they
were bars to the time they died"
The two men opened fire with bigh-
powered automatic rifles, killing two
agents and wounding the others during
a traific surveillance assignment. It
was ihe most FBI casualties in ope: in-
cident ja the bureau's 78 pears.
Local authorities have tentatively
Unked the suspects to eight armed rod-
beries in the past year, plis three rob
beries and shootings at an isolated rack
quarry i wesiern Dade Cownty ire.
quented by target-shooting enthusiasts.
* Avthorivies haves't nuled out the pos-
sibility that more people were involved!
ving.
Sn all
head instead of aff his te
“Maybe he sang them to hinggelf, but
, Bot out loud,” dure. Dove said,
Dove loved to Gavel and once spent
#0 days with friends traveling more
than 11,000 miles across the Usiled
States and Canada, Mrs. Dove said.
‘Australia was to be bis pert destina-
Gon, said his friend and neighbor Rent
Legg, with whom he drove crose-coun-
ivy on another occasion. And he often
spoke o! irying to get an FBI transfer
>: Alaska, where he could spend more
| time outdoors camping, hiking and
playing sports.
Mrs. Dove said her son was athletic,
tie sever a star. He worked summers
mia Meguard en6 cok! often be found
* gpeading bis free time playing foothell,
basketball, hiking or boging.
“He loved to box ahd ! was the only
Hatcher gaid. “He'd heal me te just
short of the point I would want to quit.
And be'd let me get in 2 few punches
#0 T would feel better.
“He would never BR me to the point
be would knock me out and 7 cduhd
rest. He'd just tag me."
But even more often, his toughest
competition was himself, Lagg said.
“gerry would pick -@ hill and say,
‘when Tim in good enough shape, Pm
Boing je ras uD that Rn ’ han ke
wowd mam and be woold train and be
would beai thet hill,” Legg seid.
The physical aspects of law enforee-
thent were part of its appeal io Deve,
his friends apd family ssid. A tough
day al 8.W.A.T. training was exhilarat>
ing.
“He'd call mne-up and say ] had mich
& great day. We did drilie J can? be
lieve they pay people to do this”
asia,
Hatcber said, “He was -very prod af
the fact that be was 4 and in the dest
physics! condition of bis life"
Bove found the Segal system free
trating af times beceuse be sa
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