DEA Agent Allegedly Kills Colleague

A DEA agent was found dead in a car wreck with four shots to the head. His passenger, a fellow agent who told police he had been drinking heavily at a party they attended, was charged with murder.

“Who did I kill tonight?” Richard Fekete, 55, asked officers who told him they found DEA agent Shaun Curl, 39, dead in a wrecked car Friday night in Miramar, Fla., according to a police affidavit.

The Drug Enforcement Administration and Miramar police were trying to piece together exactly what happened after Fekete and Curl left a gathering at the Dade County Police Benevolent Assn. hall together.

Police had not determined when Curl, who had been driving, was shot.

At first, police thought they were responding to a routine traffic accident--a vehicle had run off a highway and hit a tree.

Curl was pronounced dead at the scene, while Fekete was taken to the hospital with minor injuries after crawling from the wreck.

Investigators discovered Curl had been shot in the head “at least four times,” said Miramar police Sgt. Bruce Keesling. “So I don’t think it was accidental.”

Fekete was held without bail Saturday at the Broward County Jail, and the DEA put him on administrative leave with pay.

Feteke told officers he had been drinking a lot at the police hall, the affidavit said.

“He did not remember when he left or who he left with,” Keesling said.

“He did state he remembers crawling out of the vehicle. He stated he knew he was in trouble.”