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: RIVERSIDE continued trom 1A living and personal tragedy. Both were family men and homeowners. Both lost their wives to violent death. Platt’s wife, Re- gina, committed suicide by shoot- ing herself in the head with a shotgun in December 1984, inves- tigators said. FEI agents said it was the first time since 1979 that two FB) agents were killed in one incident and the most casualties in a single action in the agency's 79-year his- tory. The suspects’ behavior, their use of automatic .223-caliber weapons and their fatigue clothes, similiar to those worn by surviva- lists, suggest ties to extremist groups, yesterday's Miami Herald quoted an unidentified FBI agent in Washington as saying. “They did not shoot out of fear or excitement. It was cold. It was calculated,” the agent said. “They really sound like survi- valists.... They are very clean- cut, definitely Americans,” paid Metro-Dade Police Sgt. Tony Monheim. “In the holdups, the group would be waiting for the guards and would just shoot them. They were ruthless. They were danger- ous,” said Al Carballosa, a Metro Dade police spokesman. Neither had ever been arrest- ed, police said. A woman who rented a house from Platt told the Herald he was “an all-around nice person... an excellent landlord.” To their friends and neighbors, Matix and Platt were hard-work- | ing friends who ran @ ¢mall land- escaping business that provided them good homes and hopes for the future.” “They were just a nice family, that’s why I'm really in shock,” said a neighbor of Platt'’s who asked not te be named. “I'm devastated,” said one woman who lives in the same quiet cul-de-sac in the Hammonds subdivision where Plcii lived with his wife and their four children the past year. “Their poor little kids. That's who I'm hurting for.” Matix and Platt are believed to have killed two people and shot at least two more during the ar- mored car and bank holdups, in- cluding one holdup Jan. 10, police said. In that robbery, a Briak’'s messenger was shot in the stom- ach by 6 man wearing a ski mask. Witnesses said a second man got out of the assailants’ car and, Standing over the bleeding cour- jer, fired two more shots into him with an automatic rifle. The men then lifted two duffel bags from the armored car and fled into a Kendall neighborhood. The Brink's messenger is still re- covering. The car used by the assailants was traced to Emilio Briel, 25, who was reported missing Oct. 10 after failing to return home from a trip to @ quarry used for target prac- tice, authorities said. Briel has not been found and is presumed dead. Detectives said the two may be linked to at least two shootings at the quarry. nel On March 12, a target shooter was shot four times and left in a canal at the quarry by t»o white neil ‘ (inn a errr aie ne males who stole his car. Jose Col- ! tazo, 30, survived by playing dead, then crawled out of the canal and ‘walked three miles for help. His car was used in a bank robbery three moeks later. An unidentified skeleton was found near the quarry March 1. “Fro agents wounded Friday were in serious but stable condi- tion yesterday in Baptist Hospi- « ‘tal, a nursing supervisor said. A _ third was in fair and stable condi- tion in South Miami Hospital. _ Two others.were treatedfor mipor .. - Wf