Sergeant Walter F. Conley of the Milford Police Department was killed on December 10, 1980, while on duty. He was 61 years old and was working a detail escorting a bank employee returning from another bank across the street when assailants, mistakenly believing the employee carried a large amount of cash, attempted to rob the employee. Sergeant Conley was shot during that robbery attempt and died from his wounds.

His death is remembered by the department as a line-of-duty fatality.

If anyone knew Sergeant Conley, the circumstances that day, or has information about the assailants, please share what is known.