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MARTHA
DIXON MARTINEZ
1959 - 1994
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MICHAEL
JOHN MILLER
1953 - 1994
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On
November 22, 1994, Special Agents Martha Dixon
Martinez
and Michael John Miller, as well as a
Washington, D.C., police detective, were shot and
killed inside the District's police headquarters
building. At approximately 3:30 p.m., gunman Bennie
Lee Lawson entered the "cold case" squad
room, to which the Agents were assigned, and opened
fire with a TEC-9 assault weapon. During the exchange
of fire, a third Special Agent was shot and seriously
wounded, and a 15-year-old boy was shot in the
leg. Lawson, who also died of gunshot wounds sustained
during the incident, had left handwritten notes
at his home indicating that his intended targets
were the commander of the police department's homicide
squad and his investigators. Lawson was a suspect
in a triple homicide, which occurred a month prior,
and he had been questioned by D.C. homicide detectives
the previous week.
SA Martinez was born in January of 1959 in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Several years after receiving her
Bachelor of Sciences Degree in Biology from the
University of Pittsburgh, SA Martinez entered on
duty with the FBI. Her first office of assignment
was Knoxville, where she was the first female Agent
in the field office to be certified as a SWAT team
member.
SA Miller was born in May of 1953 in Prince George's
County, Maryland. He entered on duty with the FBI
in 1984 having earned degrees from the University
of Maryland and the Georgetown University School
of Law.