Exclusive: Source details officer's account of fatal shooting
By Terri Parker | WPBF.com | updated October 20, 2015, 2:39PMPALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. —According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office source who can’t comment publicly, the account Palm Beach Gardens officer Nouman Raja told investigators is that stranded motorist Corey Jones pulled a gun on him as soon as Raja approached him on the PGA exit ramp from I-95 and said, “Police, man, are you alright?”
Raja said he then fired two to three shots at Jones, who was standing behind his open driver’s side door. He said Jones then took off running.
Raja told investigators he was tracking Jones as he ran, and saw him make it to the guardrail west of the car, about 30 feet away.
The source said Raja said he could see the flickering silver of a laser on Jones’ gun, and that’s when he took aim and fired two more times.
Raja was working an undercover surveillance detail on burgled cars, and pulled up to Jones in a white unmarked passenger van, perpendicular to the front of Jones’ car.
He was wearing jeans, a tan T-shirt and a ball cap. He did not have his duty gun on him, but a smaller, back-up Glock in a front holster. The duty gun was in the van.
The source said Raja told detectives Jones was standing, and Jones immediately said, “I’m okay.”
Raja said he then identified himself as police, and that’s when Jones pulled out his gun, and Raja immediately shot at him.
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According to the source, evidence technicians found five casings from Raja’s Glock 40 at the scene.
They also found a Jimenez Arms 380 semi-automatic pistol, with six live rounds in the magazine, which apparently belonged to Jones.
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