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FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 — Part 2

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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ay - <2 ence or twice but usually this is a F eM ian oft. ad an oe 'Withesses— ot * ie oe +a ithe emergency number 911. ‘s <* Meanwhile, Holloway said, cars Tk continued to travel along Southwest '? 89nd Avenne in the middie of the 7 ae FY Sa Sob SEGRE . & gunfire, between FBI agents and the : 7 two suspects. 3. 2"1 really credit the agent who held “ap his gun while cars went by... he : beld up his weapon in order not to , Shoot civilians,” Holloway said. “Tv ben the firing started, the peo- “ * ple started coming out of the Farm Store facross the street} and we ” yelled, ‘There’s gunfire," Holloway said. “Those idiots kept going on ‘through. But the agents knew they - were elvillans and halted their gun- ; fire. *. . 4 .watch the battle through his girl- friend's telephoto camera lens. _.. “That's when I saw the agent in . front of his car get hit. He pierced up - Hkhea jackknife and then I saw him go . down,” he said. . Holloway said she saw 8 second man go down in the middle of the bullet-ridden street and that was . ‘when she stopped watching. - ° Bown the street, Robert Roache and his secretary were talking in Roache's law office at Southwest * $2nd Avenue and Sovthwest 124th. ans eos bee : _ agents tried to arrest the suspects, ++ “YT was dumb enough to go outside f and see what was going on after I heard the shots,” Roache sald. “We - have heard shots around here maybe - . & quiet area.” *. Roache said when he ked © ground the corner of thé building he > saw a man lying wounded in the « Street. ' . . ormenemaifter that IT got out of sight and my secretary and I went back. Inside a eee I decided not to be a brave per- wor + Fa wa Stebbins "paid he continued to Agent Benjamin Grogan : Street, 50 yards from where ihe | _ was a 26-yeer veteran of FBI son,” he said. Roacbe's daughter Colleen said she had just pulled into the parking lot when people were panicking and tell- ~. ing her to go back, ‘T just ai in the car scared to” death .., It's Incredible. I can’t be eve it happened,” she said. Residents sald yesterday's carnage was a shocking Indication that urban crime has moved into their once. 4 homey community. = 24-4. “Thear bangs and pops around here all of the time,” said a resident who . ‘ didn’t want to be identified, “and you know it’s not firecrackers.” . Al Alato has been operating his Southwest 124th Street newsstand for more than 25 years and has fever - seen anything like yesterday’ 8 occur rence. . eall the -« The fear of retribution was sppar- + the promise of anonymit db voung woman came in the store Agen Jerry Dove wk ae au in 1882 -. began work for bure _ ‘They're shooting at each other, all. _ the police,” be said SF? 4 ato aaid he told, the” woman to police because she knew , more about what wag happening than “he did 7 To pe » ‘The unidentified woman called the police, told Alato she wasn't going to walt and then left Al's Newsstand, . A few minutes later another wott-_ "an came to the newsstand and alfpr. bearing what happened sald, “Boy, ts - _, the neighborhood going now.” ; ent because residents spoke only. with | ; eral . “We live In a very peaceful neigh- .“borhood. But right now it's hard to * “gay if it will change,” ove sald, “You ean't garantes | that this type of thing _ front happen in in your p nelghborhood.” he ape mer
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