Raymond J. Stastny was a 30-year-old Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent who died from gunshot wounds sustained during an undercover operation in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood. The incident began January 20, 1987, when Stastny arranged to buy a pound of cocaine in the parking lot of a shopping center at 318 Pharr Road NE and was shot multiple times by the individual he was meeting. He survived for six days but died on January 26, 1987.

Other officers at the scene shot and killed the suspect, and there were no arrests or trials related to the shooting. Stastny, a six-year DEA veteran who had been shot at by traffickers in 1985 and received a Sustained Superior Performance Award in September 1986, was survived by his wife, Valerie, and was posthumously awarded the International Narcotics Enforcement Officers Association’s Medal of Honor.

If anyone has information about the operation or remembers Stastny’s work in Atlanta, please share what is known.