COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS PLYMOUTH, SS NO: 81865 COMMONWEALTH v. DARRELL JONES AFFIDAVIT OF DENISE PERKINS JONES Denise Perkins Jones, being first duly sworn, states as follows: I. My name is Denise Perkins Jones and I live in Auburn, Maine. 2. I was questioned by the Brockton Police in 1985, about a shooting that took place in the D?Angelo?s parking lot in Brockton, Massachusetts. 3. On the night of the shooting I was in a car with Paul Jones, who was my fiance at that time. Paul had just brought sandwiches to the car from, D?Angelo?s. Paul said something about looking 1g) and it looked Lu) to see e1 taller nuul who I thought appeared to be Portuguese and a shorter black man close together. The black man made a motion, and the taller man came then fell to the ground, and the black man ran away. Paul up, set out after him in the car but we lost sight of him as he ran down some streets. We came back to D?Angelo?s and asked the manager to call the police, or an ambulance. AFF. 217 4. I did not know any of the people who were involved, either the victim or the shooter, so I did not recognize either of them as a person that I knew. My view of the two men was not good, and IE never got 21 good look at the person who was the shooter. I really only got a glimpse of the shorter black man, and the whole thing happened in a couple of seconds. I did not see these two men walk into the parking lot, so I do not know where they? were ;previously. My' view' of then1 was limited. to seeing them together for a couple of seconds, and then seeing one of them running away. 5. After the events took place I spoke to police officers and. police detectives a .few 'times. At the scene the _police asked me and Paul to look at one particular man who was brought and we could not, so he over, to see if we could identify him, was taken away. We were then asked to go to the Police Station, which was nearby, and on the way we were asked to look at the group of people standing in front of Pete and Mary?s bar. We looked at these people but did not recognize anyone of them as being the shooter. 6. I remember going to the police station and I was asked and also 'Ua look at to look through 51 binder? of' mug shots sketches, to see if I could recognize the shooter. The binder seemed to have hundreds of pictures in it and I could not pick AFF. 218 one out. A couple of days later the police showed me a smaller number of six to ten photographs, and I picked out about four of them that seemed familiar but I told the police that I could not be sure. When I narrowed it (hnhi to four the police told me that l: was doing' well, because the guy' was in that group of photographs. So it seemed like the police already knew who did it and they were just asking me to cxmfirm what they already knew. A day or two later the police came to me with another set of photographs that seemed to include some of the same pictures. I felt like the police really wanted me to pick out a photograph, but I told them that I did not get a good look and could not be sure. The polioe pressed me to pick a picture that looked most like the shooter and I picked one but I always said that I was not sure. 7. One of the times that the police :met with. me they asked if I spoke to anyone from the newspapers and I told them that I did not. I told them I did not and they asked me if I had been threatened by anyone because of what was published in the paper, it told them II had not. II never spoke tx) any newspaper reporters or other media representatives about this matter. 8. I did not know Darrell Jones at all, and the Police asked me ii? I knew him and 12 told them that IE did not. The Police told me who he was and that he was the person who was AFF. 219 identified as the shooter. 9. When I testified in court I could not pick out the person in court as being the shooter, so I said so, that I could not be 100% sure. I was then asked to pick out a person who was of a similar description to the person I saw that night, and I pointed out time person who vans the defendant ij1 the case. I felt bad that I had not seen the events well enough to make an identification, and I felt like I was letting the District Attorney and the Police down when I could not make a positive identification. I felt pressured to pick out the defendant even though I could not really say' that it was him. who was the shooter in the parking lot. 10. I spoke to Brockton Police detectives and to the Assistant District Attorney about this case a few times which included talking to the Assistant District Attorney before the grand jury and before I testified at the trial. He went over what was said in police reports with me and seemed disappointed that my memory of things did not always match the police reports. 11. I was never contacted by the lawyer for the defendant Darrell Jones, or by any investigator other than the police before trial. If II was contacted by 21 lawyer (no investigator for the defendant I would have answered any questions AFF. 220 truthfully, and I would have reSponded to questions in an investigation or in court truthfully, as I would do now. Signed under the penalties of perjury of October, 2014. Denise Perkins Jones AFF. 221