Frank Robert Schlatt, 30, was an Atlanta Police Department officer with five years’ service and a U.S. Navy Vietnam veteran. On May 13, 1978, he responded to a reported burglary at a furniture store. As he entered the store an assailant hid behind a couch and shot him in the face with a shotgun; Schlatt died of his wounds. He left a wife and daughter.

The shooter was identified as Warren McCleskey. He was arrested, tried, convicted of Officer Schlatt’s murder and sentenced to death. McCleskey’s defense raised a claim that Georgia’s death-penalty system was applied in a racially biased way; that issue reached the U.S. Supreme Court in McCleskey v. Kemp.

Did anyone who knew Officer Schlatt or who was in that part of Atlanta in May 1978 see or hear anything that could shed more light on the ambush?