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JERRY DOVE
1956 - 1986
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BENJAMIN P. GROGAN
1933 - 1986
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On April 11, 1986, Special Agents Jerry Dove and
Benjamin P. Grogan were killed in southwest Miami,
Florida, during a gun battle with robbery suspects
William Russell Matix and Michael Platt. While
Agents were conducting a mobile surveillance in
connection with a series of violent bank and armored
car robberies, they observed a suspect vehicle.
A high-speed chase ensued when the Agents attempted
to stop the vehicle. When Agents in three FBI vehicles
succeeded in stopping the suspect vehicle, suspects
Matix and Platt emerged, firing their shoulder
weapons. In the resultant gun battle, SAs Dove
and Grogan were killed, and five other Agents were
injured. During the exchange, Matix and Platt made
their way to an FBI vehicle. SA Edmundo Mireles,
Jr., had been seriously injured during the altercation,
and his left arm was totally disabled. Overcoming
his injury, SA Mireles used his uninjured arm to
fire rounds from his pump shotgun at the vehicle's
driver and passenger compartment. When his shotgun
rounds were exhausted, SA Mireles managed to rise
to his feet, draw his service revolver, and kill
Matix and Platt.
SA Dove was born in January of 1956 in Charlestown,
West Virginia. He earned degrees from Marshall
University in Huntington, West Virginia, and West
Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia.
SA Grogan was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in February
of 1933. A few years after earning degrees in Philosophy
and Biology, he entered on duty with the FBI as
a Special