Bruce W. Wilson was a 27-year-old Metropolitan Police Department vice officer and undercover narcotics specialist in the Seventh District. Married with one child, he had served five years on the force.

On the afternoon of April 25, 1977, Officer Wilson and his partner conducted an undercover drug buy in the 200 block of Elmira Street SW. After purchasing a single pill and placing the dealer under arrest, Wilson went to the rear of a nearby home to search a trash can for additional narcotics. He was ambushed there and shot once in the back of the head with a small-caliber handgun. Critically wounded, he was taken to Greater Southeast Community Hospital, where he died on April 26, 1977, after surgery.

Police arrested Avon C. Alexander within hours and charged him with murder. He was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 20 years to life; investigators believed the killing was connected to the narcotics arrest. Does anyone have memories of Officer Wilson, the 1977 Seventh District operations, or information about the Elmira Street scene?