On a late summer day in 1984, 25-year-old New York City Transit Police Officer Irma Fran Lozada was patrolling the BMT Canarsie Line in Brooklyn. Working plainclothes with a partner, the officers saw a man snatch a necklace from a rider at the Wilson Avenue station in Bushwick and gave chase. Lozada became separated while pursuing the suspect, identified in reports as 19-year-old Darryl Jeter, into a desolate, weed-filled vacant lot at Central Avenue and Chauncey Street.

A struggle occurred inside the lot and Jeter gained control of Officer Lozada’s service weapon. She was shot twice in the head; her body was found about three hours later. She is recorded as the first female police officer in New York City killed in the line of duty. Jeter was later apprehended, convicted of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon, and sentenced to 32 and a half years to life.

Did anyone in the community have contacts or memories of that Wilson Avenue patrol or the vacant lot that could add detail to what happened?