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FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 — Part 2
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‘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.”
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