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The FBI { loot-Out: A Recoi. struction ___ Primed to do battle, Jawmen knew they could die SHOOT-OUT /from 20A bled to a phone and dialed $11. The first time he got It wrong. Matix was crouching hefwaon seoaasee SS eee OR ee eo ee SMe Ee Bh the right front corner of the Cutlass and the left front of a gold Camaro, which belonged to anoth- et resident. He began firing. At the game tlme, Agent Manauz2] was scrambling out of his gray Buick. Platt, still in the driver's seat of the Monte Carlo, fired the shotgun at Manauzzi. Buckshot grazed him across the back. Manauzzi was the first agent down. He crawled to cover. Seconds later, Grogan and Dove pulled up, right behind Manauzzi’s car. They saw Platt with the shotgun, They slid hurriedly out the driver’s-side door, knelt in sparse grass behind the left rear of their Buick and began firing. Both had 9mm semi-sutomatic pistols, duit they couldn't get a clear shot et Platt. Apparently, they didn’t even see Matix, ducked down between the Cutlass and the Special Agent Gordon MeNelil, supervisor of the bank robbery Eurveillance, came tearing south down 82nd Avenue in a creamy yellow 1985 Buick LeSabre. He jerked the car to a halt, the front end perpendicular to the back of Manauzzi’s car and the front of Grogan’s. ‘It wasn’t doom’ Before McNeill left. for work that mornalag, his wife, Elaine, had a nagging fear about the survell- tance. “It wasn’t doom,” she sald. “J: was just realizing thet if and when they did catch up with these two, that probably something would hap Elaine Neill had been 4 mécretary in the FRI office for elght years. She didnt say any thing to her busband, but some- how she may have communicated her fears. McNeill wes the only agent wearing a : Dalletproof vest __ Unfortunately, en aidet ‘Aeelp yards mene is e big biond guy, and when he fumped from his car he made al-tary“target. Somehow, “THE SLAIN AGENTS Matix missed him. McNeill dove behind the trunk of bis car. Other agents were joining the battle. Agent Hanlon ran from his gold Chrysler after crashing Into the FPL wall. Someone had written on the wall: “Psychotropic Druge Kill.” Mireles, Hanion's partner, dove slongside McNeill behind the LeSabre. He had a shotgun. A shot bit McNeill fn the hand, but he kept firing his six-chot Smith & Wesson. As he turned to reload, Matix hit him in the back with the Ruger Mini-14. The weapon fires sluge at 3,200 feet a second. It ls designed #0 that the .223-caliber slugs spin out of the barrel, tumbling almost. When they strike the human body, they shred internal organs, : ‘Shot in the back ° s The slug struck McNeiit in the back fust outside the bulletproof _ vest. As the bullet ripped into his - gavity, McNeill stumbled six th ‘yards Into the middie of S2nd “Avenue and fell. Two ve ents were down. Roughly 30 seconds had elapsed since the Monte Carlo crashed. egents down. - “SB pectal Agents Ronald Reisner. GenALb DOVE: © : Ghose hi ‘Gareer 0 over a ' desk. job ee _ Agents Grogan, Dove_and Han- bon were still trying to get a clear shot at Platt. He was hiding between the Monte Carlo and Manauzzi's car. Dove and Grogan were using the Smms. Hanlon had a five-shot Smith & Wesson he pulled from an ankle bolster. He was hit once in the hand but kept firing. Behind the LeSabre, Mireles was g to get a clear shot at Matix, aa ° Sas about 30 yards away, #till between the Cutlass and the | Camara. it was Matix who got 2 ‘clear shot at Mireles. The projectile ‘caught him in the left forearm, Severin ie the bone in one place and eplinte it in others. Mireles lumped to the ground in his Windbreaker. Three and Gilbert Orrantla were braking t a halt as Mireles fell. They stopped about 40 yards north of McNelll’s. car on the west side of @ road. ‘Relsner is @ SWAT team and be had his 9mm with him. He saw Matix crouching near the Cutlass and opened up. Matix returned the fire. He hit Orrantia.