Date of Birth: October 23, 1908

Hometown: Swainsboro, GA

Trooper School: Not Yet Attended

Assignment: Swainsboro, GA

Date of Death: March 3, 1948

Interred: Swainsboro City Cemetery

Details of Incident: Agent Fields, with less than a month on the job, was involved in a gun battle while investigating suspicious individuals at the Lighthouse Restaurant in Swainsboro on GA 4. He was the first Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent killed in the line of duty.