Did BATF agents assassinate an unarmed Michael Schroeder outside Mount Carmel?
** BATF spokespeople originally claimed Davidian Michael Schroeder was killed when three Davidians tried to shoot their way out of Mount Carmel. In fact, they were trying to return. ** The Treasury report alleges all three shot at agents, but at trial agents alleged only Schroeder shot. Fourteen agents fired at Schroeder who died of six gun shot wounds, most of them to the back. ** BATF agents never admitted to making any attempt to see if Schroeder was dying or dead. That two gun shots were heard as agents left the area with their one prisoner, and that Schroeder’s blue stocking cap disappeared, leads some to suspect angry agents “finished off” the wounded Schroeder and later took the powder-burned cap. ** Texas Rangers were deputized as federal marshals by the U.S. Attorneys office and put in charge of the investigation. Nevertheless, the FBI would not let them retrieve Schroeder’s body for 4 days–after BATF agents had revisited his body. The FBI would not let Rangers investigate th
