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FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 — Part 3

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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‘3 Ov swpaper oi) and etate ) TEE MIAMI BERALD . Mount Cipping » Space Bebe} ‘| “Mianl, Florida . on — | loets. Page 73 April 17, 2! Both FBI agents were slain by same gunman, tests show ernneees ren @y BRIAN DUFFY shootin and robbery of toca, || Detectives have gone te excep: | Seereld Saal! Wieier Finn West Dade rock pit. | tonal len ument what ATAMI The two FSI agents killed fo Coliazo was ghot and lett for [ happened at the shooting scene. In » week's gunfight In Kendall were desd by two men who stole hig | One Instance, Metro-Dade detec- SWAT team members who carried ein gad Chevrolet Monte Carlo, | dve Johe Parmenter arranged to - 9mm semi-automatic pistols that : a FRI found the truck parked [| move all the cars involved in the sould have cut down their attack- +Wednesiay at SW 104th Street | chase and shoot-out to as empty Fa had bey been able tO get # ‘and South Dixie Highwa hangar at Ope-locka Alrport. .. thas 20 dlocks from the e sootng “There, Parmenter and other "Special Agents Gerald Dove and — acene. lavestigators reassembled the Soares pOnenad ba] Progen Rais iy erie scene exactly ash war so z am a Rae Fee SOgg three agents carrying the Smun ' i . they could reconstruct the events weapons during the shoot-out, ; Haul at Matix’s . of the shooting. ‘nyeatigatars and FEL agents said ! @ FBI agents flied 0: _ Hpinesday- But they proved 80) as ing they seteed oat pep 38 | Shot in foot axe for Willem Matis hie \* her Smith & Wesson tevolver amit & more wertul Ruger w. i Aceyrding to gources familar Reicha aera ane Ber | from oe home ie they with & ‘en Pelistics tests end ectogey re showed op here ie The agents Dade Medical xaminers Gttier, ®, #8, which Rave not been made | ain) seized a fully Soaded 357 | Mireles shot Piatt in the foot with wiblic, show that it was Matix gnum revolver. a 22-geuge | @ #botgun. Then, badly wounded vo the hree, and eee ccly | Savage shotgun with 2 sawed-off and uhabl to oes the. rifle, * the three most were @ Ginlicdd Made 6 we wR. vended Michael Piatt. f-aeartin Doesitber riffle, two Reals The autopsies showed each was *atix's pariner in the shoot-out, etic walkle-talkles, ammunition, { Rit In the spine, almoct certainly | ounded at lesst one agent WH & |} puycloaning equipment, a canvas | with slugs from Mireles’ six-shot d-gauge shotgun, ballistics and | containing « amall machete | Sauth & Wesson revolver, the ther fests show. clothing that could have bean | Sources sald. Special Agent Edmundo Mireles and clothlag uid has weed tm bank robberies. Some : as badly wounded in the teft } materials bad eyeboles cut out. pereiaed Inch al wee th wes eet Mate and Pant ny |. @ The FBI also, seized foor | Gown. Matix also was hit in the ed both Matix and Plat Weapons from Platt's house, but} voce at least once by a slog from puis Hhformaron. the fist se Geir makes and model numbers | Mireles’ handgun, the sovrces sald. if ip the history of the FEL, will as Pride . tro Dade de f presented today by Metro-Dade a8 y, Me facial wound wes not {mediately hectives and FEL investigators have | yoy) but Matix would have tectives in ® briefing with FEI | concentrated their efforts on de | ae aral minutes later in spts and supervisors. In related witnesses ang vollecting | Soweet keveral minutes iets velopmients Wednesda briefing with ao & Slocd. evidence while Assistant |" °"" @ Aa anonymous caller tipped | pees cal Exanises fay Bare — Hee snd agents t bardt conducted the ¢ ‘ating of « white 1984 Ford Rarmt conducted the s . pee ‘kup, Heense FIE-CUW, owned flew to Miand to og Matix. The truck is belleved to Pree hut ae mat we ve been used fn the March 13 fix's wife, . ed at & exh octors said the three pete Pe ke | ‘ents wounded muspecis. riously inthe © ~~ oot-out were =” proving after ery and other .
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