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 killed in the line of duty.