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FBI Miami Shooting 4-11-86 — Part 07
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Memo from Acting Chairman, Sirg to Mr. Sharp.
RE:
Administrative Inquiry
Shooting Incident
Miami Division, 4/1l/86
and Risner arrived on the scene. They stopped their vehicle on
the west side of s2nd 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
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 9mm scw semi-automatic pistol..
Tho
on tbe ground behind his
vehicle (g*)
.was once again shot this
time suatain.
und.
Md to the right ear.
SSA McNeil art
was incapacitated due to an
inability to move
SAs Grogan
I Dove, from an area at the side and rear.
of SA Grogan's vehicle(*pr), had already began firing on the.
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Wiliiam R. Matix apparently took SAs Grogan and Dove under fire
with a shotgun.
Thls was evidenced by a~pattern of #6 shot which
was found on the driver's side of Grogan's vehicle ("pr). While.
Matix exchanged fire with SAs Crogan and Dove, Michael Lae Platt
left the cover of his vehicle (*gn) and proceeded, unnoticed by
SA.Grogan's group, down the passenger side of sA Grogan's vehicle
down,'in the groin area, and killing SAs Grogan and Dove. During
this'period of time, sA Risner was firing on Platt and shouted
warnings to SA Grogan's group attempting to alert them to Platt's
flanking movements. SA Risner's warnings were not heard by his
-.fellow Special Agents and he observed Platt shoot at the Agents.
hehind sA Grogan's car and saw two of them fall over.
Immediately after shooting the Agents, Platt and Matix
approached sA Grogan's vehicle ("p"), apparently to effect their
escape. Both of them entered the vehicie. Seeing this,
SA Mireles, who was apparently semiconscious and was slightly
behind ssA McNeil's vehicle ("e"), opened tire on the subjects in.
shotgun. Due to his Injury, SA Mireles was forced to fire the
gun one-handed. To accomplish this task, he found it necessary
to roll over on his back, put the shotgun between his iegs,".
"rack"~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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