Dorelle C. Brandon was a 35-year-old Chicago Police Department officer killed on January 25, 1984, during an undercover narcotics operation. She and her partner, Patrolman Clarence Keith, were making a controlled buy at the residence of a suspect named Anthony Brown on 10742 South Calumet Avenue. Officer Brandon and an informant entered through a rear door where Brown locked the burglar bars behind them. After she observed Brown sell one gram of cocaine for $100 and identified herself as an officer, a struggle broke out.

Patrolman Keith, positioned outside and unable to enter because of the locked bars, fired his weapon through the bars to try to subdue Brown. One shot struck Officer Brandon in the back of the head; she was taken to Roseland Community Hospital, then Cook County Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 4:10 a.m. The death was ruled a gunshot wound inflicted inadvertently by her partner during the struggle. Brown was injured and arrested on narcotics-related charges; Keith was not charged after investigators determined the shooting was unintentional.

Officer Brandon is commemorated on several memorials, and the 3rd District community room was re-dedicated in her memory on the 41st anniversary of her death. Does anyone have memories of Officer Brandon or information about that operation that could shed further light on the incident?