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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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—AAnd after what one witness 8s 7 heard a crash - —— then all the ‘gunshots? By Sohn Platero m LAMI — For nearly 10 minutes Friday, the peace- fal country community of Kendallook on the air of the Depression-era 1930s, when #BI agents gained ‘thelr fame in savage “Sys bank robbers Ma Bar Dillinger. _ 106 shots fired,” the street was littered with spent shells, weapons, bleodstains, pleces of clothing, 2 bul- letproof vest, wrecked vehicles and First-Aid rem- pants left by paramedics, who treated wounded FBI agents before they were flown or driven to nearby hospitals. at began Friday mornin ase sufveillance mis-,’ ‘gion ended with a shoot-out that Efainied the lives of” two FBI agents and two snepects wed left three other agents hospitalized with serious gunshot wounds and two. agents grazed by gunfire. “This is a real quiet neighborbood,” t Bul Norman, as he stared at four bodies lying on the east side of 82nd Avenue, a few feet south of Southwest 133rd Street. “Well, it was,” be said. Two blocks to the north of the gunfight, it t, it was business as usual at Sunniland said Bly . “I was watering the plants,” said olloway, 43, a witness to the shootout that occurred about 9:30 4.10, -“] heard a crash and then all the gunshots. It was unbelievable, I ran out to the street. There were two le, one of each side of the street, shooting toward trees.” . Mirsculously, no no bystanders were hit ‘although eey- eral vebice drove by as the agents abd suspects exc ed gunfire. _“Tcalled 911 and asked them to send police to block off the street before zormeone got shot driving by,” said Bob Stebbins, #4, Bolloway's flance. “There was one hell of a hall of bullets. Stebbins, a financial planner, marveled that one FBI agent ie ares mode Nea ear on the west _ Hide yes fe ainalet 0 ty thpar overrun éach time &@ ‘the Kontt keow w what the bed eft ser a _ were doing,” be Estimates wire that perhaps 158 rodnds were fired from ¥ a C Wee’ revolvers, shoigons snd reverb tout t6 blocks -- - Fhe fatal shootout, however, . voath, Authorities would not say actly where, but It t to hgve been in the tizinity of «Barnett & 1 and Southwest ei See a as Bank oo, hy wit thet es of Ditiages ur ake *, o OK ae « “It was a logical day” to look for potentia! holdu ee Joseph Corless, special agent in charge of the | Mim FBI office. Tt was Friday, the day wheg heavy picker and deliveries are made by armored cars and UW ebecks ue Of EurTEREY on and 10 cash ‘Jdentities of possible suspects as well as the license umber of a stolen car used in an egriier robbery, ‘When two agents on survellisnce saw the Suspect Monte Carle and verified the vehidle was stolen, they radiged for support and stayed In pursuit. As the suspects ed borth on 82nd Avenue, the ts attempted Yo stop them around 1$3rd Street. "“] thought a bunch of firecrackers had gone off, but
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