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By KFOR | May 4, 2011
ORIENTA, Okla. -- FBI agents have been involved in a shootout at Glass Mountain State Park while serving an arrest warrant for a man out of Jacksonville, Florida.
The suspect, Sandlin Matthews Smith, 46, opened fire on the agents just after 1 p.m. and is now dead.
They were tracking him in connection with the detonation of a pipe bomb at the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida on May 10, 2010.
Agents say Smith fled to Oklahoma over the weekend, about the same time that the FBI received the final piece of critical information from witnesses.
Authorities say Smith was considered mentally unstable and was carrying bomb-making materials and other weapons, among them an AK-47.
No one was injured in the 2010 Florida explosion, including the 60 worshipers inside at the time.
He was charged with damaging of religious property, obstruction of persons in free exercise of religious beliefs, possession and transfer of a destructive device, possession of an unregistered firearm and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
According to Florida state records, Smith was married with children.
St. Johns and Duval court records showed no felony arrests under his name.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual(s) responsible for this crime.
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