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Seal iad iy age oe ane — ooh oy Shoot-out— a success, says agent who was hit 3 Minny Barese (et MIAMI — An FBI agent shot in a bloody guobattle 2 days ago said the shoot-cut was a success, despite .. the deaths of two agents and two suspected bank rubbers and the wounding of four other agents. The battle prevented twe men linked io murders and bank robberies from driving onto crowded U.S. 1, where many bystanders could have been hurt, Special Agent Joho Hanlon told the media Tuesday. Haaion described for the first time what it was lke to be caughi in the gunfight “T gol sbot in the hand first, my hand exploded and blood came out,” recalled Hanlon, who was released from the boepital Tuesday, “I flopped over on my back and I looked to the left and saw the guy standing by the car,” be said. “He cant around and shot me on the ground in the groin.” Haalon tpoke io reporters after Jeaving Miami's Raptist Hospital, where he was treated for his wounds. © gunpiay erupted when Hanlon and other agents attempted to arrest two. men thought io have be responsible for a half dozen armored car and bank robberies and three murders in a year. The two ans- pects, Michael Platt and William Matix, were slain as they attempted fo escape FRI agents in a hail of ta. FR] investigators have determined that Matix, 34, shot Hanlon using « semi-automatic axault rifie, As Hanlon’: unmarked FBI car pulled alongside Platt, 32, and Matix's car, the agent sald he “looked right at him. Be just looked very, very determined. He waso't scared. He was like @ man on a mission. The 48-year-old t, who has been with the FEI for 23 years and who holds a law degree, sald be thought about his wife and three children ex be lay ag ee kon SUN SENTINEL t. Lauderdaje, Fla. fee Page 1A N. Broward April 23, 1986 The FBI zaid after the April 11 shoot-out that more nant 100 shots were fired in the suburban south Dade - County neighborhood, one block from 0.5. 1. Hanlon recounted the death of Special Agents Ben- jamin Grogan and Gerald Dove, cot down by Matiz. - “D beard Bes go, ‘Ob, my God’,” Hanlon said. _ Those were Grogan's last words, as be fel mortally wounded from a bullet to the chest, Hanlon said. “Then Jerry Dove fell right next to me, his head face down,” Hanlon said, “His eyes were closed, be raised his head. The guy I think who shot me shot Jerry in the back of the head, executed him.” Alse at the cosference was Special Agent Cordon McNeill, 4$, who was shot in the back during the guofight, He will remain at Baptist Hospital a few Special Agent Ed Mireles, 33, wounded in the right armduring the fight, should be released this geek, too. FB