Shots in the Dark
Carlton Jones said he opened fire after Prince Jones Jr. tried to ram his vehicle a third time. Forensic evidence and witnesses say otherwise.
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Carlton Jones said he opened fire after Prince Jones Jr. tried to ram his vehicle a third time. Forensic evidence and witnesses say otherwise.
Almost two years have passed since an undercover Prince George's County police officer shot and killed Prince Carmen Jones Jr., 25, an unarmed Howard University student. Shootings of civilians were by no means a new phenomenon within the Prince George's force: Jones was the 12th person shot by department officers in 13 months and the fifth to die.
Even so, the Jones shooting was exceptional--not only for the circumstances that preceded it but also for the national outrage that followed.
According to authorities, in the early hours of Sept. 1, 2000, two undercover Prince George's County police officers driving separate unmarked vehicles followed Prince Jones in his black 1998 Jeep Cherokee for about 16 miles from Hyattsville, Md., through the District and into Virginia, where Prince Jones was going to see his fiancee, the mother of his then-10-month-old daughter. The officers were looking for a similar Jeep that was tied to a stolen police weapon. ... Continued 
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