Hathcock kept up-to-date with all the newest trends and technology in the field and was always teaching his students ways that would help them do their jobs better, Winward said.

Hathcock started his law enforcement career with UHP nearly 20 years ago, working in different areas until he got into the alcohol program at the end of the 1990s, Winward said.

Winward joined the alcohol program in 1999 and the two worked together until Hathcock retired in 2007 and went full-time with the sheriff's office. He had worked part time for Wasatch County for nearly a dozen years.

"He was very easy to supervise," Winward said. "He just went out and did his job. He was one of the better employees I've ever had the opportunity to know. It's a big loss for the whole law enforcement community."

Friends and LDS ward members have been rallying around the family, offering condolences and support to Hathcock's wife, Suzanne, and the couple's two boys, Travis, 22, and Caleb, 12.

In lieu of flowers, a fund has been set up to help with funeral expenses in Scott Hathcock's name at any branch of Zions Bank.

"He was a very caring and loving individual," said Bishop Robert McDonald of the Heber 2nd Ward, where Hathcock had been a counselor for two years. "But he's one that believed in the laws of the land and he felt like people should live them. He lived rules and enforced rules but was also obedient to rules. He did everything he could to comply with the laws of God and the laws of man."

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