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A shootout with an armed suspect that left two FBI agents dead and two more hospitalized while trying to serve a warrant in a child pornography case in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Tuesday morning is drawing parallels to another deadly gunfight in the Sunshine State from 35 years ago. Tragically, the FBI lost two of our own today, FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement Tuesday. Special Agent Daniel Alfin and Special Agent Laura Schwartzenberger were shot and killed this morning in the line of duty while executing a federal court-ordered search warrant in a crimes against children investigation in Sunrise, Florida.
Dove, Grogan and the other agents became engaged in a firefight with suspects Michael Lee Platt, a former Army Ranger in Vietnam, and William Russell Matix, who were suspected of several killings and violent bank robberies.
Among the suspects weapons was a Ruger Mini-14 rifle that outmatched anything the FBI agents had on hand, leaving the agents pinned down amid 130 rounds of gunfire lasting about five minutes. The suspects were finally stopped by wounded Agent Edmundo Mireles firing a pump shotgun and handgun as the two tried to steal a car to escape, according to the FBI s history of the event.