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co ee MICHAEL CARRIER pnd DAN CHRISTENSEN Magy Bren Beowvers To sheir friends and neighbors, Wil-- Mo me aPe [ey asa) R. Matiz and his family-man buddy [Michael Lee Platt were simply hard-. working friends who ran @ small land-- gaping business that had provided them bo good homes and hopes for the fu- “ © “Yesterday, after Matix and Platt were *$hot dead in @ gun-baitle on Southwest *S2ad Avenue tn which two FBI agents ~: died and Tlve more agents were wound- ed, a Side to thelr lives that the two men. shad kept hidden began to unravel. °, "Fm devastated.“ said ane woman « 24 [ar a cl a the Hemmocks subdivision where Platt lived with his wife and thelr four chll- dren for the past year. “Their poor Uttle kids. That's who I'm hurting for.” The FSI says Matix and Platt actually were a ruthless team of armed robbers and kill- ers, suspects in @ violent string of ar- mored car and bunk holdups, most of them in Kendall. They also are belleved - to have been the gunmen in two killings card = at a West Dade rock pit where police say Shey apparently liked to fire off bursts of gunfire from automatic weapons. < ‘Platt, 32/ lived at 1503] S.W. 88th Lane, police agy. Matix, 35, lived at . 196135 S.W. 65th Ave. in « subdivision «9, called Southwood. Both men’s homes - Were within 2 dozen in .igorner where they died and the Bamett miles of the street = Adicate page, name of “awspaper, city and etste) THE MIAMI NEWS Miami,Fl Page Date: Edition: BROWARD April 12, 1986 “Bank on U.S. 1, at Southwest 136th Street, which police say the meu robbed ce. . Burman Platt and his wife, Brenda, had lived in their rented, two-story house tess than @ year, according to, nelghbors. Police ‘briefly sealed off an area around the home after the shooting and searched the residence, which has a for-sale sign in the front yard. . : . ~ Police said Matix was engaged to be tmatried. . '. Both men, who worked with Platt's - rother, Tim, fa a lawn-mowing and treetrimming company called Broad Cutters, had no criminal record either | cally or nationally, police sald. Please ses SHOOT-OUT, 13A o *