A former Florida police officer was ordered to spend 25 years in prison for the fatal on-duty shooting of a black musician whose SUV had broken down after a late-night concert, one of the toughest sentences ever handed down in an on-duty shooting.
Former Florida police officer Nouman Raja is brought into the courtroom for sentencing Thursday in West Palm Beach.
Raja had faced a possible sentencing range of 25 years to life in prison, and both prosecutor Adrienne Ellis and the father of the victim had urged the judge to impose the maximum. Raja, of Asian descent, was in plain clothes as part of an auto burglary investigation team when he spotted Jones’ SUV at 3:15 a.m. on Oct. 18, 2015. Jones was returning home from a nightclub performance by his reggae band when his vehicle stalled. He had a concealed-weapons permit and carried a handgun, purchased days earlier to protect his $10,000 drum set, which was in the SUV.
What police didn’t know at first was that Jones had been talking to a tow-truck dispatcher on a recorded line. That recording shows Jones saying “Huh?” as his door opens. Raja yells, “You good?” Jones says he is. Raja replies twice, “Really?” with Jones replying, “Yeah.”
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