Officer Charles Elwood Wasmer, 36, of the Bosque Farms Police Department in New Mexico, was killed on Thursday, August 18, 1977, while working a scene from a reported hit-and-run. He was shot and died in the line of duty during the investigation that evening.

The circumstances recorded are limited to his death at the scene while investigating the hit-and-run.

If anyone has information about Officer Wasmer, the events of August 18, 1977, or the case that followed, please share what is known.