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Baxter Shavers

Case from Fort-oglethorpe, GA dated Apr 14, 1978

Victim Details

Baxter Shavers

Male

White / Caucasian

Fort-oglethorpe

GA

1978-04-14

24

Baxter

Shavers

07/14/2026

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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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  • Reflections for Chief Deputy Sheriff Baxter G. Shavers
  • Fallen hero honore | Local headline | | northwestgeorgianews.com
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