Police Brutality / Individual record
Corey Jones
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Corey Jones in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-10-18 in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-282
- Incident date
- October 18, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Palm Beach Gardens, FL
- Agency
- Palm Beach Gardens Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 31
What happened
Corey Jones, 31, a South Florida drummer and housing inspector, was killed by Palm Beach Gardens Officer Nouman Raja on October 18, 2015, while waiting beside his disabled vehicle on an Interstate 95 off-ramp. Raja approached in plain clothes and an unmarked van without clearly identifying himself. Jones legally possessed a handgun and, prosecutors argued, believed he was being attacked by a stranger. Recordings contradicted key parts of Raja's account. A Florida jury convicted Raja in 2019 of manslaughter and attempted murder; he received a 25-year prison sentence. Palm Beach Gardens later agreed to a $2 million civil settlement with Jones's family. The convictions are established criminal findings, distinct from the department's original justification for the shooting.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 931
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 869
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset