![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Officer Carlton Jones also identified himself as a police officer and flashed his gun at Jones. Prince Jones stopped his jeep to get out to identify himself. Jones, followed Prince Jones to Spring Terrace, a residential street located in Sleepy Hollow section of Falls Church. One of the undercover police officers, Carlton B. Jones at the time was driving to visit his fiancée while the undercover police officers were searching for a jeep similar to Jones’s vehicle that was tied to a stolen police weapon. They followed Jones 16 miles from Hyattsville, Maryland to Fairfax County, Virginia. On September 1, 2000, Jones was driving his Jeep Cherokee when he encountered two undercover Prince George’s County, Maryland police officers who were driving separate unmarked vehicles. Prince Jones and his fiancée Candace Carson had an infant daughter, Nina. He also was a personal trainer at a Washington D.C. At the time of his death, he was attending Howard University alongside his friend Ta-Nehisi Coates. ![]() Prince Jones was born Rockey Jones in 1975 to Prince C. Prince Jones’s death helped inspire the Black Lives Matter Movement thirteen years later. The shooting death of 25-year-old Prince Jones by Prince Georges County, Maryland police officer Carlton Jones in Fairfax County, Virginia on Septemadded to the growing number of young unarmed African Americans murdered at the hands of law enforcement. ![]()
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