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FBI Miami Shooting 4-11-86 — Part 07

38 pages · May 14, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: FBI Miami Shooting 4-11-86 · 36 pages OCR'd
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Memo from Acting Chairman, Sirg to Mr. Sharp. RE: Administrative Inquiry Shooting Incident Miami Division, 4/1l/86 and Risner arrived on the scene. They stopped their vehicle on the west side of s2nd Avenue (facing south), slightly north of the shooting scene and began firing at the subjects, who by this. time, were out of their vehicle and moving in the area of the two black Monte Carlo) and were utilizing these vehicles as cover. SA Orrantia proceeded to fire 12 rounds of .38-caliber +P service. ammunition from his Bureau-issued .357 S&w revolver and sA Risner estimates he fired 13 to 14 rounds total from his Bureau-issued model 459 9mm scw semi-automatic pistol.. Tho on tbe ground behind his vehicle (g*) .was once again shot this time suatain. und. Md to the right ear. SSA McNeil art was incapacitated due to an inability to move SAs Grogan I Dove, from an area at the side and rear. of SA Grogan's vehicle(*pr), had already began firing on the. 3oafqns.'oaggmb esueaut o pogaed . Sugnontos ..saoefqns Wiliiam R. Matix apparently took SAs Grogan and Dove under fire with a shotgun. Thls was evidenced by a~pattern of #6 shot which was found on the driver's side of Grogan's vehicle ("pr). While. Matix exchanged fire with SAs Crogan and Dove, Michael Lae Platt left the cover of his vehicle (*gn) and proceeded, unnoticed by SA.Grogan's group, down the passenger side of sA Grogan's vehicle down,'in the groin area, and killing SAs Grogan and Dove. During this'period of time, sA Risner was firing on Platt and shouted warnings to SA Grogan's group attempting to alert them to Platt's flanking movements. SA Risner's warnings were not heard by his -.fellow Special Agents and he observed Platt shoot at the Agents. hehind sA Grogan's car and saw two of them fall over. Immediately after shooting the Agents, Platt and Matix approached sA Grogan's vehicle ("p"), apparently to effect their escape. Both of them entered the vehicie. Seeing this, SA Mireles, who was apparently semiconscious and was slightly behind ssA McNeil's vehicle ("e"), opened tire on the subjects in. shotgun. Due to his Injury, SA Mireles was forced to fire the gun one-handed. To accomplish this task, he found it necessary to roll over on his back, put the shotgun between his iegs,". "rack"~it with his right hand, force himself up, point it over the rear bumper of the car and fire at the subjects. SA Mireles
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