Deputy Haven Blake Gammill, 30, was killed while serving a warrant on February 24, 2005, in Douglasville, Georgia. An eight-year veteran of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, he and other deputies arrested a man in the living room on a child molestation warrant. As the team cleared the rest of the house, the arrested man’s stepfather emerged from a back room with a firearm and opened fire, striking Deputy Gammill in the face.

Another deputy returned fire and fatally wounded the stepfather at the scene; the original suspect was not injured. Deputy Gammill was airlifted to Atlanta Medical Center and pronounced dead from his wounds. He is survived by his parents, a fiancée, two young children from a previous marriage, a brother, and a sister.

Does anyone have memories of Deputy Gammill or information about that day that could add to the record?