On January 4, 1982, Raymond H. Davis, a 48-year-old Black officer with the Philadelphia Housing Authority Police Department, was killed while attempting to arrest two suspects in the 4600 block of Market Street. Davis, a nine-year department veteran, was confronting two men aged 38 and 41 who had just robbed a neighborhood bar when one of them fired a .38 caliber revolver, fatally wounding the officer in the head.

Both suspects were captured shortly after the shooting. Officer Davis left behind a wife and son.

Are there readers who remember the neighborhood or the bar on Market Street in 1982 and can share any details about that night or Officer Davis’s service?