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FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 — Part 7

38 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Apr 11, 1986 · Broad topic: General · Topic: FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 · 36 pages OCR'd
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i = 5 in ne - . Page a) ee all ae - SSA McNeil aro Memo from Acting Chairman, SIRG to Mr. Sharp RE: Administrative Inquiry Shastinge Tacidant re er ee old and Otel oh eh be Miami Division, 4/11/86 and Risner arrived on the scene. They stopped their vehicle on the west side of 82nd Avenue (facing south), slightly north of the shooting scene and began firing at the subjects, who by this time, were out of their vehicle and moving in the area of the two "RV" vehicles and vehicle "B" (subjects' vehicle--the stolen black Monte Carlo) and were utilizing these vehicles as cover. SA Orrantia proceeded to fire 12 rounds of .38-caliber +P service ammunition from his Bureau-issued .357 S&W revolver and SA Risner estimates he fired 13 to 14 rounds total from his Bureau-issued model 459 Omm S£tW semi-automati S os | by vehicle ("EB"), tine : SSA McNeil dropged was incapacitated due to an inability to move * te vase ly SAs Grogan Dove, from an area at the side and rear ~~ of SA Grogan's vehicle €"D"), had already began firing on the —_——— subjects. Following a period of intense gunfire, subject - — eee William R. Matix a tly teek SAs Grogan and Dove under fire 7 with a shotgun. This was evidenced by a pattern of #6 shot which — _ t was found on the driver's side of Grogan's vehicle ("D"). While Matix exchanged fire with SAs Grogan and Dove, Michael Lee Platt left the cover of hia vehicle ("B*") and proceeded, unnoticed by SA Grogan's group, down the passenger aide of SA Grogan's vehicle ("DO"), leaned over the trunk of it, shooting SA Hanlon, who was down, in the groin area, and killing SAs Grogan and Dove. During this period of time, SA Risner was firing on Platt and shou warnings to SA Grogan's group attempting to alert them to Platt's oe flanking movements. SA Risner's warnings were not heard by his - ick, cok ec -fellow Special Agents and he observed Platt shoot at the Agents an behind SA Grogan's car and saw two of them fall over. , ,imédiately after shooting the Agents, Platt and Matix ‘“pproached SA Grogan’s vehicle ("D"), apparently to effect their tl | escape. Both of them entered the vehicle. Seeing this, SA Mireles, who was apparently semiconscious and was slightly behind SSA McNeil's vehicle ("E"), opened fire on the subjects in _ the FBI car, utilizing his Bureau-issued Remington model 870 pump shotgun. Due to his injury, SA Mireles was forced to fire the . gun one-handed. To accomplish this task, he found it nec * ete he ee a Male nin ee i— s— _._- te roll over on his back, put the shotgun between his iegs, frack" it with his right hand, force himself up, point it over the rear bumper of the car and fire at the subjects. SA Mireles
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