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SEB octet, ae de dames te: Re Ae A ae ee ee cate ncn hea mm li Pet ees FALLER APR 17 1986 oe ee By Ben Goodwin | STAFF whrtte BEEVILLE - Like many events of its hind, the Mismi shootout that took the } lives of two FBI agenis fast Friday has * rippled throughout the nation. It carried a Special meaning to this South Texas town, , The mother of FBI special agent Ed Mir- ‘ eles, wounded in the shootout and credited with. killing two bank robbery suspects, is on her way to her son's bedside in Miami. Mireles, according {0 eyewitness ac- = Counts, was seriously wounded by gunfire, . but retcieved his weapon and fatally shot iwo men who earlicr had killed two FBI “Yes. | am proud of him, but I didn’t want this to happen,” Mrs. E.M. Mireles said of her 33-year-old son, a native of ee oe ee, ee eee ee “#8 - _ Alice who graduated from high schoel in Beeville, Mrs. Mireles said her son had surgery Tuesday, but was due for more. She said physicians will transplant skin from his legs to a badly wounded left arm. Mireles’ condition is fisted as fair at a Miami hospital. “Lam flying from Corpus Christi at 6:43 a.m. Thursday to be with him and hit wife, Lie,” said) Mrs. Mireles. Mra. Mireles: said it has been hard to concenirate since the FBI notified her faat Friday of the shootout and the wounding of her son. “I haven't been able to think of anything else since [ received the telephone call,” she said. “My tind has been on Miami.” Boe te Agent’s mother is proud of soz Mireles graduated in 1972 from A.C. . Jones High School, where he played. foot ball and basketball. s.% Following high «chool. Mireles served" four years in ihe ULS. Marine Corps: Une cluding embassy duty in Sophia, Butgada. He was a top-ranked sharpshooter in the Marines. Afier he was discharged, she said, Mircies . entered and graduated from the University - of Maryland. “He applied for the FB! and was acer ed” in 1979, Mrs. Mireles said. Mireles served ai the FRI headquarters ins Washingion, D.C, before transferring ito Miami about.@ year ago. His. wife also isfan FBU agent. They have been married slightly ‘ more than a year, Mrs. Mireles said. | eT ee a —