Bruce W. Wilson

Death by Force

Bruce W. Wilson, a 27-year-old vice officer with the Metropolitan Police Department, was tragically killed on April 26, 1977, in Washington, DC. Officer Wilson had been with the department for five years and was working undercover in the Seventh District at the time of his death. On the day of the incident, he and his partner, Peter L. Presly, were conducting a narcotics operation in the 200 block of Elmira Street, SW. They had made an undercover purchase of a single pill of Preludin and arreste ...Read More