By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Today is the 30th anniversary of a bloody South Florida shootout that left two FBI agents dead and another five agents wounded.
The FBI will mark the anniversary today as Director James Comey plans to speak at a ceremony at the bureau’ office in Miramar, NBC2 reports.
The shootout with bank robbers occurred in the Miami suburb of Pinecrest on April 11, 1986.
Agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, and so were the robber suspects, William Russell Matix and Michael Lee Platt.
The FBI agents found themselves inadequately armed to fight off the robbers’ heavy fire, prompting the bureau to begin using more powerful handguns.
