In the summer of 1980, a tragic event unfolded in Dekalb, GA, that ended the life of a young police officer. Tommy Richard Gober, a 25-year-old male officer with the DeKalb County Police Department, was responding to a burglary in progress on Aquamist Drive on Saturday, June 28, 1980. He had been with the department for two and a half years.
While investigating the burglary, Officer Gober and his partner were met with gunfire. Gober was fatally shot, and his partner sustained serious inju
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