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Gwinnett County police murders stunned state in 1964
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Fifty-one years ago next month marks one of the most sensational crimes in Georgia’s history: the execution murders of three Gwinnett County policemen. Officers Marvin Jessie Gravitt, 52, of Norcross, Ralph E. Davis, 49, of Buford, and Jerry Reed Everett, 28, of Suwanee, were handcuffed together and brutally killed after confronting car thieves preparing to strip down an Oldsmobile stolen in Atlanta earlier that evening. The murders occurred in the early morning hours of April 17, 1964, off Arc Road, or Arcadia Way, a narrow dirt road near Beaver Ruin Road.