Special agent Edmundo Mireles was lying flat on his back, stalked by killers in the FBI`s most deadly shootout: ”What scared the hell out of me was this: I`m cocking my head to look under the ...

MIAMI — The tunnel. FBI Agent Edmundo Mireles remembers the tunnel. And the fury. As he lies bleeding on Southwest 82nd Avenue, the fury possesses him. The wail of approaching sirens falls silent.

In his book, FBI Miami Firefight: Five Minutes That Changed The Bureau, former FBI Special Agent Edmundo Mireles—the man who, despite being grievously wounded, definitively ended that violent ...

His forearm shattered by a .223 rifle slug, Special Agent Edmundo Mireles, Jr. (no surprise, a former Marine from Texas), pumped his Remington 870 shotgun with his one good arm again and again as ...

Some 130-140 rounds were exchanged in five minutes, with five agents also wounded before seriously injured agent Edmundo Mireles emptied his service revolver into a car the two men with superior ...

Mireles was seriously injured during the shootout, as was fellow agent John Hanlon. Grogan was 53 when he died. He was a two-decade veteran nicknamed 'The Doctor' and was one year shy of retirement.

Image courtesy of retired FBI Special Agent Edmundo Mireles As a result of this ammo failure, the bureau switched to the 10mm ...

Special Agent Edmundo Mireles, one of three agents who suffered serious wounds during the gunfight, shot and killed both suspects with his shotgun and a revolver as they tried to flee in Grogan ...

But one-time U.S. Marine Edmundo Mireles Jr. charged the gunmen and, with one arm, fired a shotgun and killed them. “I am the lucky one,” said Mireles, a consultant for a Washington, ...

Special Agents Edmundo Mireles, Jr., John F. Hanlon, Jr. and Supervisory Special Agent Gordon G. McNeill received serious wounds and Special Agents Gilbert M. Orrantia and Richard A. Manauzzi ...

Under his command were Special Agents Richard Manauzzi, Benjamin Grogan, Edmundo Mireles, Jerry Dove, John Hanlon, Gilbert Orrantia and Ronald Risner. On the morning of April 11, ...

Agents Edmundo Mireles, 33, and John Hanlon, 48, had stopped their car on the opposite side of the street and came under high-powered rifle fire and were seriously hurt, although they managed to ...