Editing Ma Barker (section)

==Death==
[[File:Barker Cottage on Lake Weir in Florida.jpg|thumb|"Ma" and Fred Barker died in the upper left bedroom of this house beside [[Lake Weir]] in Florida .<br />{{Coord|29.041319|-81.933408|region:US-FL_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Ma Barker hideout in Ocklawaha, Florida}}]]
FBI agents discovered the hideout of Barker and her son Fred after Arthur was arrested in Chicago on January 8, 1935. A map found in his possession indicated that other gang members were in [[Ocklawaha, Florida]]. The FBI identified the house where the gang were staying from references to a local [[alligator]] known as "Gator Joe", mentioned in a letter sent to Doc. The gang had rented the property as a vacation retreat  under the pseudonym "Blackburn".

Agents surrounded the house at 13250 East Highway C-25 on the morning of January 16, 1935. The FBI were not aware that Karpis and other gang members had left three days before, leaving only Fred and Ma in the house. The agents ordered them to surrender, but Fred opened fire; both he and his mother were killed by federal agents after an intense, hours-long shootout. Allegedly, many local people came to watch the events unfolding, even holding picnics during the gunfire.<ref name="stu">Stuart B McIver, ''Touched by the Sun'', Pineapple Press, 2008, 1561644404, pp. 71ff</ref> Gunfire from the house finally stopped, and the FBI ordered local estate handyman Willie Woodbury to enter the house wearing a bulletproof vest. Woodbury reported that there was no one inside alive.<ref>{{cite web | title = Signet ring of notorius gangster found at Ocklawaha shootout site | publisher = Ocala StarBanner | author= Joe Callahan | url = https://www.ocala.com/story/news/local/2016/12/25/signet-ring-of-notorius-gangster-found-at-ocklawaha-shootout-site/23278841007/ | date=December 25, 2016 | access-date = August 10, 2024 }}</ref>

Both bodies were found in the same front bedroom. Fred's body was riddled with bullets, but Ma appeared to have died from a single bullet wound.<ref name="stu" /> According to the FBI's account, a [[Tommy gun]] was found lying in her hands.<ref name="burr">Burrough, Bryan (2004). ''Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–1934''. Penguin Press, New York, 0143115863, pp. 508–509.</ref> Other sources say that it was lying between the bodies of Ma and Fred.<ref>Jack Powell, ''Haunting Sunshine'', Pineapple Press Inc, 2001, p. 54.</ref> Their bodies were put on public display, and then stored unclaimed until October 1, 1935, when relatives had them buried at Williams Timberhill Cemetery in [[Welch, Oklahoma]], next to the body of Herman Barker.<ref>{{Coord|36.880831|-95.004009|region:US-OK_type:landmark|display=inline|name=Williams Timberhill Cemetery in Welch, Okla.}}</ref>