OFFICER:  JON R. HARDY

DEPARTMENT:  Gillette Police Department

DATE OF INCIDENT:  December 20, 1983

DETAILS:  Officer Hardy was responding to a dispatch of a residential burglary in progress.  After checking out the residence he started to return to his vehicle when he was shot from ambush and killed by Dale Chamberlain.  Chamberlain later died as a result of fragments from exploding pipe bombs he had set off.