Jon Hardy, a 26-year-old White/Caucasian male patrolman with the Gillette Police Department, died in Gillette, Wyoming, on December 20, 1983, after what began as an ordinary call and turned into a nightmare. According to memorial and news accounts, he and another officer were sent to Harder Drive on a reported residential burglary or disturbance. It was the kind of dispatch that could have ended with a report and a return to patrol, but instead it placed Hardy in the path of a man already deep i
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