Police Brutality / Individual record
Lamontez Jones
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Lamontez Jones in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-10-20 in San Diego, CA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-284
- Incident date
- October 20, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- San Diego, CA
- Agency
- San Diego Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 39
What happened
Lamontez Ardelbert Jones, 39, was fatally shot by two San Diego police motorcycle officers in the downtown Gaslamp Quarter on October 20, 2015. Officers Scott Thompson and Gregory Lindstrom approached Jones after reports that he was interfering with traffic. Jones fled and police said he turned and pointed what appeared to be a handgun; officers fired twice during the confrontation. The object was later identified as a replica pistol. Both officers said they had not activated their body cameras, although bystanders recorded parts of the incident. The district attorney declined charges, finding that officers reasonably believed the pistol was real. Jones's mother filed a wrongful-death claim contesting 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
- 936
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- replica
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 262
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