Obituary of Jerry Griswell Sherrif Deputy

This is one of the most moving obituaries I have ever read.

It was April 17, 1964. Three county police officers — Jerry R. Everett, Ralph K. Davis and Marvin Jesse Gravitt — surprised their assailants who were changing tags on a stolen car.

The criminals got the jump on the officers, handcuffed them together, marched them into the woods, ordered them to get on their knees, then shot each lawman in the head, firing a total of 16 or 17 shots.

A Gwinnett deputy sheriff at the time, Mr. Griswell was the first at the scene on Arc Way near Lilburn. He never forgot the sight of his three fellow police officers, handcuffed together and shot in cold blood.

"A waste of three fine men," Mr. Griswell said in a 1989 Atlanta Journal-Constitution article. He worked the case round the clock.

"For three days, he didn't hardly come home," said his wife, Dot Griswell of Lawrenceville. "He never completely got over it."

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