Police Brutality / Individual record
Prince Jones
Prince Jones was shot and killed on September 1, 2000 by an undercover Maryland police officer who followed him into Virginia.
- Record ID
- PB-023
- Incident date
- September 1, 2000
- Date of death
- September 1, 2000
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Fairfax County, VA
- Category
- Police shooting
What happened
An undercover Prince George's County police officer followed Jones through Maryland and Washington, D.C., into a residential area of Fairfax, Virginia because the officer mistakenly believed Jones was connected with a firearm-theft investigation. Jones was shot during the encounter. His family sought answers about why he was followed across jurisdictions and subjected to deadly force.
Investigation & findings
In July 2001 the U.S. Justice Department declined federal criminal civil-rights charges for insufficient evidence, while stating that patterns or practices of the Prince George's County police remained under civil investigation.
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- Historical source-derived record, pre-2015
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Published historical compilation of Black people killed in police custody (1999–2014)SAGE journal / cited NAACP LDF memorial listing · 2016 · Secondary scholarly source