* A Justice Department investigation looking into whether Carlton Jones had violated Prince Jones’ civil rights ended with a July 6, 2001, finding that cleared the officer, citing insufficient evidence to justify federal charges. With six bullets in his body-five in his back-Prince Jones managed to drive off a short distance before crashing into some shrubs and a parked car a few feet from his fiancee’s home.
Carlton Jones then shot at Prince Jones 16 times. Prince Jones got back into his Jeep and rammed it into Carlton Jones’ Mitsubishi Montero. Carlton Jones identified himself as a police officer and flashed his gun, but no badge.
There, Prince Jones got out of his Jeep and approached him. Jones, followed Prince Jones to Spring Terrace, a residential street in the Sleepy Hollow section of Falls Church. The officers were looking for a similar Jeep that was tied to a stolen police weapon.
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. 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.Įven so, the Jones shooting was exceptional-not only for the circumstances that preceded it but also for the national outrage that followed.Īccording to authorities, in the early hours of Sept. 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.