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FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 — Part 4

38 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 · 38 pages OCR'd
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Violent m orning still _ quiet neighborhood -FBI/from 1A -the butlet-pocked ving room iwall. The rain took care of the rest. 1 But for the Knapps, the Sukerts ‘and their neighbors, the memories are indelible: a sudden explosion of ‘violence, then a weeklong siege of ‘Investigators, reporters and droves .Of Strangers On a morbid sightsee- fis. tour. his unremarkebly suburban ‘corner in South Dade fost {ts -innocence on Friday, April 12. « “I pever thought anything Uke ;this would ever happen here. 1 - guess If you're in the wrong place jat the wrong dme...,” sald Tommy McConnon, 18, who came “home that morning from Palmetto "High. ill, to find agents crouching - behind bis old Pacer hatchback, guns pointed across the street. Dead men on lawn The shooting had just ended. He saw dead and wounded men lying “on his nelghbor’s front lawn amid the wreckage of three FBI sedans and one getaway car. McConnon livea witb his brother and his parents, Don and Diane Hautman, in a rented three-bed- room duplex acroas the street from the shoot-out. They moved in almost a year ago, after the Haumans returned to Miami from seven years in Saudi Arabia, where Don worked for an ‘company. - “This Is my old neig borhood," sald Diane Hauman, 42. “I wanted to be here. All my sons’ friends are here. My friends from out of town “would hear the horror stories and | told them, ‘T Ive here. It's not Uke .° . “T just thought I ved in a quiet melghborhood. J told them I lived in a nlce neighborhood, really ‘residential. Nothing ever happens. <--~find-now this.” Only s block from South Dixie Highway, Southwest 82nd Avenue is used heavily as a through-street. At lunchtime, neighbors say, stu- @ents from nearby Palmetto High School race by thelr cars their way to Burger King. | he squeal of Ures, the guys with no mufflers, Is standard fare arouod here,” said Robert Steb- bins, who lives in one of the two fdentical singie-family homes on the street, dramatic tw ulldings with glass roofs. * The east side of the avenue between 120th and 124th streets is otherwise takeo up by 10 duplex homes, mostly rentals. Several tenants have been there less than a ear, Among the residents are niversity of Miam! law students, ehiropracter, a furniture sales- ‘man, an eiderly couple and a family whose smalf thfléren Baven't beep told what happened ba the corner. . It’s very quiet’ The duplexes face the beck walls of two shopping centers, 8 Florida Power & Light substation and a plain two-story office bulld- ing. The banks the robbers bit are mcant blocks away. “It is not a very bomogeneous Beighborhood, not the kind of place where you shoot over to the heighbors’ for a hamburger barbe- cue on a Saturday night,” sald Stebbins, 46, a financial consult- ant. “But in terms of the people, it's very quiet. People go to business, come home and that's On a 40-foot pole in his front d,a US. flag files at half-mast honor of the slain FBI agents. Stebbins was working on his tulips when the chase caravan came down his street. He and his grifriend, Billie Holloway, saw the gunfight from the first to the fast shot. " They have had Uttle respite Since. After being Interviewed on Ae eR ee Ne Hg haunts
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