Norman Alexander Stewart was a 51-year-old veteran detective with fifteen and a half years on the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police when he was killed during an undercover narcotics operation. The raid on an Allequippa Street apartment in the Terrace Village Housing Project took place on September 16, 1983. Stewart had stepped outside briefly to signal other undercover officers while his partner remained inside to execute a buy.

Inside the apartment the partner identified herself as police and was attacked by four women and one man. Hearing the struggle, Stewart returned and during the melee an 18-year-old man, Orlando Thompson, took the partner’s service revolver and shot Stewart in the abdomen. Stewart managed to return fire and fatally wounded Thompson. Stewart was taken to Presbyterian University Hospital and died of his wounds about an hour later. He left a wife, an adult daughter, and an adult son. No other arrests or prosecutions followed because the sole suspect in Stewart’s killing was killed at the scene.

Are there details about the operation or the people involved that readers with knowledge of Terrace Village in 1983 can share?