Prince Jones
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 Undated photo of Jones | |
| Date | September 1, 2000 |
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| Location | Fairfax County, Virginia, U.S. |
| Type | Police shooting |
| Participants | Jones and police officer Carlton Jones |
| Deaths | Prince Jones, 25 |
Prince Carmen "Rocky" Jones Jr. (1975 – September 1, 2000) was an African-American man killed by a police officer in September 2000 in Virginia.[1] Author Ta-Nehisi Coates attended Jones' memorial service,[2] and later wrote at length about Jones' life and death in his 2015 book Between the World and Me, noting that the tragedies of racism are impossible to escape for Black people, even those well-off.[3][4][5]
Jones was the son of Prince C. Jones Sr. and Dr. Mabel Jones, a physician and the daughter of a sharecropper. He attended the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science in Denton, TX, Howard University in Washington, D.C., was a personal trainer at a Washington metropolitan area gym, and was set to enlist in the U.S. Navy. He had an infant daughter with his fiancée Candace Carson.[6][7] He was described as upstanding, religious, and a health food fanatic.[8][6]