On a tragic day in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, Chief Deputy Sheriff Baxter Glenn Shavers, a 24-year-old male, lost his life in the line of duty. The events of April 14, 1978, unfolded after a man named Robert Lewis Collier, an unemployed ironworker from South Pittsburgh, Tennessee, drove to Georgia with the intention of committing an armed robbery. Carrying a. 32 caliber revolver in a brown paper grocery sack, Collier entered the Plain and Fancy Florist and Bakery in Fort Oglethorpe. He robbed the
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