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Convicting Florida officer in slaying may prove difficultÂ
Terry Banks, right, speaks about his nephew, Corey Jones, next to Bishop Thomas Masters during 2014 shooting of Jermaine who was working under-
a news conference at the Bible Church of God in Boynton Beach, Fla., Wednesday, June 1, 2016. McBean, a black man who cover investigating a string
it turned out was openly of auto burglaries, pulled
(Greg Lovett/Palm Beach Post via AP) carrying an air rifle down a up in an unmarked cargo
busy street that resembled van with no police lights.
TERRY SPENCER tect themselves from per- armed black musician Co- a more powerful weapon. Raja was in civilian clothes,
CURT ANDERSON ceived danger. rey Jones. Raja, who is of South Asian wearing a tan T-shirt, jeans,
Associated Press That will make it difficult Raja, 38, is only the second descent, was being held sneakers and a baseball
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. for Palm Beach County Florida law enforcement on $250,000 bail. He faces cap. He wasn’t wearing his
(AP) — Convicting a police prosecutors as they try to officer to be charged crimi- a possible life sentence if police vest as ordered by
officer for an on-duty killing convict fired Palm Beach nally for an on-duty shoot- convicted. his sergeant, prosecutors
hasn’t happened in Florida Gardens officer Nouman ing since the 1980s. Last fall, Palm Beach County State say. The recording carries
in nearly three decades, in Raja of manslaughter and Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Attorney Dave Aronberg an exchange where Raja
part because officers are attempted murder for the Peter Peraza was charged and his prosecutors allege repeatedly asks variations
given wide latitude to pro- fatal shooting of legally with manslaughter for the in charging documents of “You good?†to which
that an audio recording Jones repeatedly replies
shows that Raja did not that he is, the documents
identify himself before con- show. Suddenly, Raja
fronting Jones and open- screams at Jones to put
ing fire. Jones, a 31-year- his hands up before firing
old drummer, was returning three shots. There is then
from a performance when a 10-second gap before
his SUV broke down on an three more shots are fired,
Interstate 95 off ramp in apparently as Jones ran
Palm Beach Gardens, a away. Jones was struck
well-to-do suburb. three times, the fatal shot
Jones, who also worked as piercing his heart and
a housing inspector, had lungs. He fell dead or dying
a concealed weapons 190 feet from his SUV, the
permit and was carrying a documents say. His unfired
newly purchased handgun gun was on the ground,
to protect his music equip- about 75 feet from the SUV.
ment from theft, his fam- Immediately after the
ily says. He was talking to shooting, Raja used his per-
a tow truck operator on a sonal cellphone to call 911
recorded line when Raja, q.
Prosecutor clears 2 St. Louis officers in fatal shootingÂ
Associated Press word,†Circuit Attorney tigated the shooting sepa- is that there is no indepen- family, Jermaine Wooten,
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jennifer Joyce said the offi- rately from an internal po- dent, credible witness we has questioned the po-
The prosecutor for St. Louis cers and a witness reported lice probe, said Ball-Bey’s can put in front of a grand lice account that Ball-Bey
said Thursday she won’t be that an armed Ball-Bey ran loaded gun was found at jury or regular jury who con- was armed. Wooten said
charging two officers in the from a home during a drug the scene, with his palm tradicts police statements,†Thursday before Joyce’s
fatal shooting of a black and gun raid. Both officers, print on the ammunition Joyce said in a statement. announcement that he
18-year-old last year, con- who are white, have said clip. A local medical exam- “None of the other witness- anticipated the officers
cluding that no evidence they fired at Ball-Bey at the iner concluded that Ball- es had a clear view at the would not be prosecuted,
disproves claims by police same time after he point- Bey sustained a severed moment when Ball-Bey was saying he has “been down
that it was self-defense. ed a gun at one of them, spinal cord, and a bullet shot.†She noted that the this road before†with area
Calling Mansur Ball-Bey’s though one officer missed, pierced his heart. officers declined to speak police being cleared in
August 2015 death “a trag- according to Joyce. “One of the biggest chal- to prosecutors. fatal shootings involving
edy in every aspect of the Joyce, whose office inves- lenges we face in this case An attorney for Ball-Bey’s blacks.q
