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Ale Nad > By SARA CRICKENBERGER OF The Dally Mail Stalf Gunshots rang out on a quie! Miami street. Soon the air was filled with the sounds of bullets piercing metal aod shattering glass, When the quiet descended again last Friday morning, four men were dead oe robbery suspects, a 25-year veteran FB! agent and M-year-old Jerry in places like the quiet Dunbar neighborbood where Dove grew up, scenes like that bave never been real; they don't happen except o0 television. But perhaps as much as any of the events in the days since Dove was killed, a two-page telegram from “Miami Vice” television series actor Don Johnson expressing his sympathy to Dove's mother drives home the fact that } Hife is not tike television. When the scene is over the players dou't ge! op and bome. ‘Law enforcement is dangerows, pot gamorous. Jerry Dove koew that. And it was the only thing he ever wanted to do. “He always wanted to be in the FBI,” sald Dove's mother, Bobbie Dove. “That's why be went to law schoo), to meet some of the FBI's strict requirements. “Be was always interested im law enJorcement and the FB) is the top of line in law enforcement That was wha! he wanted.” . FBI Director Witiam Webster was expected to attend $0 a.m. services to day for Bove, who was killed along with his partner, Benjamin Grogan. as “Vehey tried to arrest two robbery suspects. After graduation from Dunbar High School, Dove attended Concord Col- “ Dege, then Marshall University, where he graduated with honors. He ereduat- ¢d from West Virginia University Law School, then worked in the attorney general's office until he was accepted into the FBI Academy in 182. He accepted lus FBI commission in Pittsburgh and worked there and in Charleston and Huntington before mov- ing to San Diego, then te Miami. Long-time friend Larry Hatcher said Dove was goal oriented And before he set the FBI as his goal, be bad already decided to meet a more challenging one. “He wanted to make a difference in life, to do something important before 3 he died,” Larry said “He knew thai Jong before he thought about the FBI. “Jerry bad a real strong sense of what was right and what was wrong He believed in making whatever sacri- fices he had to to do the right thing.” And although Dove knew the risks of } being an FBI agent, be didn't talk much about them, Hatcher said. “T never had any fear that be would be killed,” be said. “I think that's in en because he downplayed that side ‘of it to me.” Dove, who was more conservative s than his counterparts growing up in the “BOs and “70s, was nonetheless popular among his peers, Hatcher said. “His idea of a good time was to get .. together ata pizza place and just ~ talk.” Hatcher said. “He was always concerned about our persona! lives, ‘who we were dating. And he gave lots of advice, whether we wanted it or mt.” His memory was astounding and his sense of humor was one of his best traits, his friends said After seeing a movie once, Deve could recite lines and jokes from it and do impressions of the actors Clint Eastwood movies were among his favorites. “T'll never forget, one evening we had made plans to go to the drive-in movies to see a double feature of Clint Eastwood.” Hatcher said. "J was talk- ing to my girlfriend’ s parents and Jer- ry drives up wearing @ poncho and a cap gun with a stogy in his mouth. He walked bowlegged up to the porch like Clint Eastwood in one of his movies.” Mrs. Dove also remembers a few pranks from Dove's youth. “One Christmas, he and some friends dressed up as Wise Men and went door- to-door through the snow in their bath- robes, barefooted and wearing paper beards they had made,” she said. “2 Friends Remember Dedicated FBI Agen