mr. howell s murder. we watched juliusjulius future disappear in an oklahoma courtroom when the verdict of guilty was read. my brother is innocent. at the time of the killing jones and his family insist he has an alibi, that he was at home with them eating dinner and playing board games. that would be key evidence for a jury. a jury either believes them and thinks, well, the police got the wrong guy, or the jury doesn t believe them and thinks those other people are essentially in on a murder conspiracy. as you can imagine, it is a crime to then lie in court or to the police about where a murder suspect was. but here s the thing in this case. the jury never heard that alibi at all. the jury never heard any witnesses offer any evidence on behalf of jones, because in a kind of legal surrender, jones lawyers didn t call any witnesses. that s part of why his attorney says the defense they gave was deficient, as i mentioned. that lawyer had no capital
took place i would just like the appeal to them for help. the officer that shot and killed jones was not wearing a body camera. let s get more from cnn in palm beach gardens, florida. reporter: john and christine, those who knew cory jones say they are struggling to understand how it is that this 31-year-old man ends up dead following an encounter with a police officer. this all happened early sunday morning at around 3:15. police say the officer was on duty that night but dressed in plain clothes and driving an unmarked car. the officer stopped to investigate what he thought was an abandoned car on the exit ramp when police say the officer bass suddenly confronted by an armed subject. so he discharged his firearm killing jones. police say a handgun was recovered at the scene.
was on duty and dressed in plain clothes and driving an unmarked car. the officer stopped to investigate what he thought was an abandoned car on the exit ramp when police say the officer was suddenly confronted by an armed subject. so he discharged his firearm, killing jones. police say a handgun was recovered at the scene they say jones bought it three days before the confrontation. we still don t know if that handgun was fired during the shooting. the officer involved in this shooting joined the palm beach gardens police department earlier this year in april. -se now on paid administrative leave while this investigation continues. john, christine. all right, thanks. there was a policeman hunt in new mexico this morning for the suspect in a deadly road rage shooting on a freeway in albuquerque. authorities say two cars were traveling westbound on interstate 40 tuesday when the suspect pulled up to the other vehicle and started firing,
detective welcome harris said the boy was not believable. he exaggerated stuff. he could in other words, he was open to suggestions. and if you said that mickey mouse was up there and if he sensed that you wanted him to say that, he d say yeah. wayne supporters point out the laundry manager failed two police lie detector tests. but few are aware of a third test given by the fbi examiner, richard radcliff. the result in layman s terms, he passed. he wasn t involved in killing jones. only days after wayne williams was convicted of killing two adults, atlanta s police commissioner closed the books on 21 other murder victims, declaring they too were killed by williams. most were children. among them, clifford jones and yusef bell.
yet, another boy said he saw a coin laundry operator kill clifford jones. detective welcome harris said the boy was not believable. he exaggerated stuff. he could in other words, he was open to suggestions. and if you said that mickey mouse was up there and if he sensed that you wanted him to say that, he d say yeah. wayne supporters point out the laundry manager failed two police lie detector tests. but few are aware of a third test given by the fbi examiner, richard radcliff. the result in layman s terms, he passed. he wasn t involved in killing jones. only days after wayne williams was convicted of killing two adults, atlanta s police commissioner closed the books on 21 other murder victims, declaring they too were killed by williams, most were children.