October 20, 2015
Miami — The South Florida musician (click here) who was killed by the police early Sunday
after his car broke down near a highway exit ramp was armed with a
handgun he had bought three days earlier, the Palm Beach Gardens police
chief said Tuesday.
The
musician, Corey Jones, 31, was shot by a plainclothes officer who had
been on the job for six months, Chief Stephen J. Stepp said. Mr. Jones’s
handgun was recovered on the ground outside his car; the new box it
came in was inside, the chief said.
In
a brief news conference Tuesday night, Chief Stepp addressed the
swelling questions about how a respected church drummer and housing
inspector wound up dead in the middle of the night off Interstate 95, a
half-hour from his home. The case, another focused on the shooting of a
black man by a police officer, had begun to gain attention on social
media, and the department was sharply criticized by a county police
union official for not coming forward with facts sooner....
Where are all the gun lobbyists and pro-gun organizations? Where are their demonstrations that state a man of any ethnicity is allowed to carry a gun WITHOUT suspicion of criminal activity? Where are they? Nowhere? When it is an African American the pro-gun advocates are missing in action.
October 22, 2015
By Curt Anderson and Matt Sedensky
October 22, 2015
By Curt Anderson and Matt Sedensky
Corey Jones had five wounds (click here) —
some of them exit wounds — and one shot broke his arm and another
entered through Jones' side and lodged in his upper body, his lawyers
said after meeting with the state attorney who is investigating the
fatal shooting.
"If Corey had his gun out, he never made any kind of offensive action," said Daryl Parks, an attorney for the Jones family.
Jones,
31, was shot to death early Sunday by Palm Beach Gardens Officer Nouman
Raja, who stopped his unmarked van to check on what he thought was an
abandoned vehicle and was "suddenly confronted by an armed subject,"
police chief Stephen Stepp has said....
Corey Jones had his gun out because the officer probably asked him if he had a gun with him. That is standard (SOP) anymore. The first question officers have is whether or not there is a gun in the car.
