David Larry Folds was 24 and a Deputy Marshal with the Fulton County Marshal’s Department when he was killed while responding to an eviction in late December 1977. He had served about three years with the department. On Wednesday, December 28, 1977, an officer attempting to carry out an eviction at 1483 Westwood Avenue S.W. in Atlanta was shot and wounded, and a distress call brought Deputy Marshal Folds to the scene.

As Folds exited his patrol car, someone inside the house opened fire. He was struck, taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, and died of his wounds. One of the two men being evicted was also killed at the scene and identified as the person who shot the first officer; the other man was arrested and charged with murder in connection with Folds’s death.

If anyone has memories of this incident or knew Deputy Marshal Folds, please share what you know.