Puerto Rican Rebel Dies in FBI Shootout

Posted on: September 24th, 2005
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A Puerto Rican nationalist leader wanted in the 1983 robbery of a Connecticut armored truck depot to finance his political movement was killed in a shootout with FBI agents, sources said.

Police said gunfire erupted Friday as agents surrounded the farmhouse where Filiberto Ojeda Rios, 72, was hiding in the western town of Hormigueros and at least one agent was wounded.

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