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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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+ A ‘iam R. Matix’s home in southwestern Miami | we were for their actions, 1 Get ates a in Korea as military policemen, lived only blocks apart in the quiet neighborhood near where they died. Pau! Matix said Platt was 2 “creep” who had a bad attitude. He believes his brother's pain helped Platt lure him into some type of criminal activity. “What the FBI is saying about Bill can't all be true. That's just not my brother,” Paul Matix said. U.S. Attorney General Edwin Mecse IT made a special visit to Miami yesterday to meet with the wounded FBI agents and praise their work. “T just told them how grateful Meese ‘ anid in an Associated Press story. * “I do know this was an excellent poy car ib of locating two very dangerous anyon a Killed in the shootout FBI agents Benjamin Grogan, and Jerry Dove, 30. Grogan’s neral will be held in Miami to His hody will be tak- - to Br wick, Ga, for burial. -..e bod Dove will be returned to & Charleston, W.Va., for burial. Two wounded agents wer serious but stable condition terday, two others were treatet Miami hospitals and released.‘ fifth agent, Ed Mireles, was in { condition. Jt was Mireles, wounded b ly in the left arm, who craw about 20 feet, stood up and a Platt and Matix as they attemp. to get away in a goverment car. “Somehow, Mireles got tot —~ I don’t know how,” tor told the Miami H. ¢ killed them both with J revolver.”
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