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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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{indwate page. name of ~“Drewbpager, city and atate | fRE MIAMI NEWS Miami, Fi (Mount Gipping 6 Boace Belew! cute Page Saw Matix | : April 23, 1986 execute 1, - to : agent says | mo, * @ A threat in Nebracks, GA RATHRYA LORUSSO aad JOHN FEANANDE? PERE O See anaaapanaah hal FR agent John Hasion, speak: tag publicly for the first time since being wounded fn the April 1 | ghootout that claimed the lives of two other Agents, said he sawone . of the killers “execute” agent Gere ald Dove. ; tao The bloody Kendall gun battle left Dove, agent Benlamin Grogan and robbery suspects William Ma- -? Rix and Michael Platt dead. Hanion | and four other FBI agente were wounded, i Hanlon, who wag shot fn hic heft ! hand, thigh and atbdamen duriig ' the firefight, was released yester- ‘ gay Yrom Baptist Hospital. He . Spoke to reporters autsidz the hos< ital wloug “with agent Gordan cNell, who was wounded fp th neck and hands. : _Hanion recalled being shot by Matix tn the hand and thigh, then failing to the ground. ‘ * MAL first... 2 toll (Grogan) I was shot, and then TI heard fim wey, Oh my God." t didn't feel him @ | fail down. But then Gerry Dove fell right next to me. with dis head face down. He raised his head. His eyes were glazed. ..And the guy] think shot me shot Gerry in the back of the bead ~~ executed him. _“T was dying on the ground,” Hanon sald, “and the only thing I could think of was my wife and three children aad { was rep ag be (Matix; woulda’t put Bis gun against me” -« Both Manion gad McNeil said they ‘were Ye y Matix, -. . Piense sea BL GA + . ( eeiemead = ‘* . ‘ + he x ey ‘ leg oo wy eee te Be he i a Gm agg OM TR ee Me actedr a eo OR se eG eae a ee
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