″This female told her three things: One was that her husband was going to get a divorce. Platt then entered the Grogan/Dove car in an apparent attempt to flee the scene.Platt's actions at this moment in the fight have been debated. The guard survived. Matix was a suspect in the murders but was never charged. Platt was home at the time. [3] After his wife's death, Matix moved to Miami at the urging of Michael Platt, married a woman named Brenda Horne, and had one daughter, Christy Lou. Platt’s neighbors said last week he had argued loudly with his first wife, Regina, in the weeks before her death from a .12-gauge shotgun blast Christmas Eve 1984. The article was titled ″Victory Out of Tragedy.″ ″Not the same William Matix,″ she declared the morning after the shootout. He fired a .357 Magnum revolver at agents Ronald Risner and Gilbert Orrantia, and was shot a fourth time when turning to fire at Hanlon, Dove, and Grogan. – As Platt crawled through the passenger side window, one of Dove’s 9mm bullets hit his right upper arm – After Platt crawled out the window and was rolling off the front hood of the Cutlass, Dr. Anderson believes he was hit twice more – Dr. Anderson feels Platt received his fifth wound – The bullet entered the back of Platt’s right upper arm – At this point in the gunfight, Dove had relocated from behind the passenger side door of his car – Mireles fired a total of five rounds from his Remington 870 shotgun from a range of about 25 feet. ″Were there people who knew them who should have been aware of what they were doing?
Information provided by Find-A-Grave Member Two was that Michael and this woman were deeply in love. A gun battle erupted in which Agents Grogan and Dove were killed and Agents John Hanlon, Gordon McNeill, Edmundo Mireles, Richard Manauzzi, and Gilbert Orrantia were injured. He said his wife was despondent over their marital problems and told police he had suspected Matix was having an affair with her. Risner and Orrantia, observing from the other side of the street, stated that they did not see Platt leave the car and fire at Mireles.Platt attempted to start the Grogan/Dove car. Mireles drew his .357 Magnum revolver, moved parallel to the street and then directly toward Platt and Matix. The day before she died of a shotgun blast to the mouth, she reportedly told a friend, ″He’s going to kill me.″ She told another friend earlier, ″My husband keeps threatening to kill me.″ ″Based on everything I’ve seen, it’s not a suicide,″ Wick said. Matix had a screened-in swimming pool and a full-time housekeeper. The landscapers had comfortable homes. In 1973, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the military police. The autopsy found Platt’s right lung had Platt took up position by the passenger side front fender of the Cutlass.
Matix told investigators that he suspected Platt had carried on an affair with his wife. Authorities here believe it was Matix and Platt who surprised Jose Collazo, 30, on March 12 at a rock pit near the Everglades frequented by target shooters. Matix got off as many as three shots with his shotgun, and injured Special Agent Richard Manauzzi before he was shot by Supervisor Gordon McNeil and temporarily sidelined. Platt, wounded in the foot, was intently trying to get it started. In an interview published Thursday, attorney Daniel A. Wick told The Miami Herald that Mrs. Platt was afraid of her husband. At the urging of Army Buddy Platt, Matix moved down to Miami, where the two transplanted Midwesterners founded their own tree-trimming and lawn-care company, the Yankee Clipper. The second hit the driver's side window post and fragmented, with one small piece hitting Platt in the scalp. There’s close to 2 million people in Dade County, most of them from somewhere else. Platt had enlisted in 1972 as an infantryman and served with the U.S. Army Rangers during the Vietnam War ″This is a very large, transient urban area. Platt and Matix used Briel's car in this incident. Matix had a screened-in swimming pool and a full-time housekeeper. He was released from a hospital Thursday to the cheers of nurses and lab technicians.