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2 NTA Jest for Capias 3

Agency Number Agency Name Agency Report Number

Office of the State Attorne SA 1 -
FL 050015A ,h 5 3081
15 Judtcual DIStl?lCt

2:232:13 1, Felony El 3 Misdemeanor E1 5 Ordinance Spec'a'NO?es

Apply 2 Traffic Felony El 4 Traf?c Misdemeanor El 6 Other

Name (Last, First. Middle) A as Race Sex Date of Birth

RAJ A Nouman Khan ?Raj?
Charge Description Change Description

Manslaughter with a Firearm - F.S.S. 782.070) Attempted First Degree Murder with a Firearm .S.S.
777.04(1) and 782.04 and 775.087 (1) and (2)
Victim?s Name (Last, First, Middle) 

JONES Corey Lamar 02'03?1984
The undersigned certi?es and swears that he has just and reasonable grounds to believe, and does believe the above? named defendant
committed the following violations of law. The person taken into custody:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Committed the below acts in my presence. CI Was observed by Who [old
0 Confer-sad to Admitting the below Was found to have committed the below acts, resulting from my (described) investigation.
On the 18 Day of October, 2015 At 3: 15 

 

Corey Jones, age 31, was shot and killed by Nouman Raja, a Palm Beach Gardens police of?cer, at approximately 3:15
a.m. on Sunday, October 18, 2015. Dr. Gertrude Juste, M.D., an Associate Medical Examiner in Palm Beach County,
performed the autopsy on Jones. Dr. Juste ruled Jones? death was a homicide caused by a gunshot wound to his chest.

Corey Jones was the drummer for the ?Future Prezidents,? a Palm Beach County-based reggae band. The band
performed at a venue in Jupiter, Florida, from about 10:00 pm. on Saturday, 10?17?2015, until about 1:15 a.m. on
Sunday, 10-18-2015. Jones loaded his drum equipment into his vehicle before he began driving south on His
vehicle had a mechanical problem, causing him to exit the highway. He drove onto the PGA Boulevard off?ramp and
stopped on the west edge of the ramp. Jones called a male ?'iend, a band mate, at 1:36 a.m. The friend agreed to drive
to Jones? location and attempt to help him. Jones dialed on his cell phone at 1:44 a.m. to request roadside
assistance. A road ranger was dispatched. Jones? band mate and the road ranger both made contact with Jones but they
were unable to get his vehicle started. The road ranger drove away at approximately 2:41 a.m. Jones told his band
mate he did not want to leave his drum equipment unattended for fear of it being stolen. Jones? band mate drove away
at approximately 2:45 a.m. He was the last person to see Corey Jones alive before Nouman Raja became involved.

Corey Jones placed several calls to the number for roadside assistance. He made his ?rst call to the number at
2:09 a.m. That call and the next three calls he made to the number were not answered. Jones may have entered the
wrong prompts or he hung up the phone before his call was answered. His ?fth call was made at 2:45 a.m. This call
was successfully connected. Jones? call was on hold for about 26 and a half minutes with music playing in the
background. The call was recorded. The audio recording was turned over to investigators. His call was answered at
approximately 3:12 a.m. by an operator at the roadside assistance call center. The ?rst two minutes of the
recorded call were uneventful. The operator began obtaining some basic information. Jones appeared to be calm and
under his normal faculties, coherently providing details and answering questions in a casual manner. Jones and the call
center operator conversed about the trouble Jones was having with his vehicle. During those ?rst two minutes there
was no background noise heard from Jones? call. The distinct, persistent sound of Jones? door chimes were suddenly
heard at a point a bit more than two minutes after the operator came on the line, indicating Jones had opened his door
with his keys in the ignition. The door chimes are clearly heard throughout the remainder of the recording. Nine to ten
seconds after the sound of the door chimes are initially heard the recording captures a verbal exchange between Corey
Jones and Of?cer Nouman Raja:

Corey Jones: ?Huh?
Nouman Raja: ?You Good??
Jones: ?I?m good.?

Raja: ?Really??

Jones: ?Yeah; I?m good.?
Raja: ?Really??

Jones: ?Yeah?

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Raja: ?Get your fucking hands up! Get your fucking hands up!?
Jones: ?Hold on!?
Raja: ?Get your fucking hands up! Drop!?

Of?cer Raja ?red three gunshots in rapid succession (within two seconds) immediately after he uttered the word
?drop.? The call center operator is heard saying ?Oh my gosh!? There is a period of silence, except for the pinging
door chimes. Approximately ten seconds after the third shot was ?red there are three additional shots ?red by Raja.
This second volley was ?red more deliberately, one shot per second. The call center operator is heard again. After the
sixth shot is ?red the operator said ?There?s gunshots.? The call center operator was the last person to talk to Corey
Jones before Nouman Raja arrived.

Nouman Raja was on duty as a police of?cer when the shooting occurred. He was in plain clothes: sneakers, blue
jeans, a tan t?shirt and a tan-colored baseball-type cap with the red letters stitched across the front. He was
driving a white Ford cargo van with no police markings. There had been a problem with late night auto burglaries in
Palm Beach Gardens. Raja was assigned to do surveillance patrol in large parking lots with the goal of locating the
burglary suspects. Raja?s immediate supervisor, a sergeant, provided a statement to investigators. He said he
explained the duties and reSponsibilities of the surveillance assignment to Of?cer Raja. The sergeant said he told Raja
to wear his tactical vest with police markings on it when he worked the assignment ?for safety reasons? and to ?identify
yourself as a police of?cer.? Of?cer Raja was not wearing the vest when he exited the unmarked van. The vest, with
his police radio in one of the pockets, was on the van?s ?oorboard next to the driver?s seat when the shooting occurred.

Of?cer Raj a used his personal cell phone to call 911 after the shooting occurred. His call was placed approximately 33
seconds after he ?red his last round (shot As the 911 call connected, before the 91 1 operator could answer, Raja
is heard as he yells: ?Drop that fucking gun right now!? The 911 operator answered the line and he and Raja began
communicating. Of?cer Raja gave his location. He said he had shot a person. He requested ?re-rescue. He said he
"lost contact? with the person he shot, meaning he did not know where the person was located. The 911 operator asked
for a description of the person. Raja?s reply: black male wearing all black, dreads, had a silver handgun in his
right hand. 1 came out, I saw him come out with a handgun. I gave him commands. I identi?ed myself and he turned,
pointed the gun at me, and started running. I shot him. Raja also said the person he shot had been ?hit,? meaning
shot, ?at least three to four times.?

Additional police officers were dispatched to Raja?s location. Among the of?cers who responded was the senior
sergeant, the highest ranking of?cer working at the time. The senior sergeant had served with the police department for
25 years when this shooting occurred. The senior sergeant provided a sworn statement to investigators. He described
his actions of reSponding to the scene and meeting with Of?cer Raja. The senior sergeant was intent on ?nding the
wounded man as quickly as possible. Of?cer Raja led the senior sergeant and other of?cers into a stand of trees in the
grassy area adjacent to the off-ramp; the area where Raja said he last saw the man. The of?cers, with Raja directing
them, found Corey Jones? body at 3:25 am. The body was approximately 192 feet (64 yards) to the north from the
back of Jones? vehicle. Paramedics were summoned and they pronounced Jones dead at 3:32 am. Of?cer Raja said
Jones had been armed with a handgun. The handgun was not found near the body. The senior sergeant said his next
goal was to ?nd the handgun. He called for a canine of?cer to do an ?article search,? using a police dog to search the
dark area for the handgun. The senior sergeant explained why he called for the canine team to search for the handgun:
?Based on Of?cer Raja advising me he believed the subject had thrown a silver-colored handgun in the tall grass near
the rear of the suspect?s vehicle.? A canine team responded and began searching from the rear of Jones? vehicle. The
chrome .380 handgun owned by Corey Jones was found almost immediately. The handgun was in the grass about 72
feet (24 yards) from the rear of Jones? vehicle.

Nouman Raja ?red six shots at Corey Jones. The six casings were recovered at the scene and all six of them were
forensically matched to the handgun used by Raja. Raja used his personally-owned Glock .40 caliber pistol to ?re the
shots because his department-issued duty ?rearm was in its holster inside the van.

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Three of the shots ?red by Raja struck Jones? body. One shot entered the left arm near the elbow. One shot entered the
back of the upper right arm. Dr. uste said neither of the arm wounds would have been fatal. The bullet wound to
Jones? chest is the one that caused his death. The bullet entered at the right side of the chest and traveled into the body,
passing through a section of the heart and both lungs. The projectile was recovered under the skin of Jones? left
shoulder. Another projectile was located in a small tree. The tree from which this projectile was recovered was 15 feet
away from Jones? head (in the grassy area where Jones? body was found).

Nouman Raja had 7.5 years of police experience in October of 2015. He was certi?ed by the Florida Department of
Law Enforcement as a ?rearms instructor, emergency vehicle operations instructor, and as a general topics law
enforcement instructor. Prior to this incident he had taught in excess of 800 class hours at the Palm Beach State
College Criminal Justice Institute, the local training academy for law enforcement of?cers. Despite his experience, his
extensive police training, and the direction of a superior of?cer to wear his tactical vest with police markings on it to
clearly identify himself as a police of?cer, Raja chose to approach Corey Jones? vehicle in a tactically unsound, unsafe
and grossly negligent manner. The approach was made at approximately 3:13 am. Raja was driving an unmarked
white cargo van which no reasonable person would assume was a police vehicle. The van had no emergency lights,
police decals or markings of any sort. Raja was dressed in casual clothing which included a cap with the red-colored
logo of Caterpillar, Inc., a company best known for its production of earthmoving equipment. Raja did not have a
police badge hanging from his neck or any other indicia of police identi?cation on his person. Raja, operating the
unmarked van and wearing the clothing previously described, drove the wrong way, northbound, up the southbound
off-ramp to approach Jones? vehicle. A reasonable person can only assume the thoughts and concerns Corey Jones was
experiencing as he saw the van approaching him at that hour of the morning. Raja did not know Jones was on his
phone with the Operator at the roadside assistance call center. Raja stopped his van at a perpendicular angle directly in
front of Jones? vehicle. The ensuing verbal exchange was captured on the call center recording. At no time during the
recording did Raja say he was a police of?cer. Instead, Raja confrontationally replied by asking the single word
?really?? when Jones twice said ?I?m good.?

Raja?s expended bullet casings were recovered at the scene. Raja clearly left the position of cover and safety provided
by his vehicle and ?red upon Jones as he ?ed on foot in a northerly direction in the grassy area next to the off?ramp.

ones? chrome .380 caliber handgun was 72 feet (24 yards) from the left rear tire of Jones? vehicle. The fact that ten
seconds passed before the second volley of shots was ?red is especially relevant because Raja told the senior sergeant
at the scene he saw the ?subject had thrown a silver-colored handgun in the tall grass near the rear of the suspect?s
vehicle.? Despite this observation, realizing Jones had ?thrown? his handgun in the grass near the rear of Jones?
vehicle, Of?cer Raja continued to ?re at Jones as he ran away. This is proven by at least one of the gunshot wounds.
The bullet that struck Jones? right arm was ?red from the rear. Dr. uste described the trajectory of the right arm
wound as ?back to front.?

The homicide of Corey ones occurred as a result of Of?cer Raja?s culpably negligent actions previously described in
this af?davit. All of the factors must be considered in their totality: the darkness, the early morning hour, the plain
white van Raja was driving, the wrong?way approach up the one-way off~ramp, the casual attire worn by Raja, and the
position he stopped the van directly in front of Jones? vehicle. Raja did not identify himself to be a police of?cer
during the audio recording previously described. There is no question that Jones ran away from Raja. After Jones?
body was found Raja told the senior sergeant he believed Jones threw a silver?colored handgun in the tall grass near the
rear of Jones? vehicle. The handgun was in fact found in the area described by Raja. The time gap between the ?rst
and sixth shot ?red by Raj a was 13 seconds. The handgun was only 24 yards away/north from the left rear tire of
Jones? vehicle, a distance easily covered in fewer than ten seconds by a frightened, ?eeing 31?year-old man weighing
158 pounds (Jones? weight).

Dr. uste, the board certi?ed forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy on Jones, believes the fatal chest wound
caused such signi?cant trauma, especially to the heart, that Jones would not have been able to continue his ?ight more
than a few yards after the wound was suffered. Jones? feet were the closest parts of his body to his abandoned
handgun. The distance between Jones? feet and the handgun he abandoned was 124 feet (41 yards).

Corey Jones? Jimenez Arms .380 caliber ?rearm was loaded with six (6) rounds of live ammunition in the magazine.
The chamber of the pistol was empty. The safety was on, in the ?safe? mode. Jones did not discharge any shots from
his ?rearm at the scene. The only expended bullet casings recovered at the scene were the six ejected from Raja?s
personally-owned Glock pistol. Jones lawfully purchased the Jimenez ?rearm on 10-15-2015 in Palm Beach County at
a business properly licensed to sell ?rearms. He had owned the ?rearm for less than 72 hours when he was killed.

There is suf?cient evidence and probable cause to conclude Nouman Raja continued to discharge his ?rearm at Corey
Jones after Raja realized Jones no longer possessed a ?rearm. The intent of discharging his ?rearm was to kill Corey
Jones. The details enumerated in this af?davit cause this af?ant to believe there is probable cause to arrest Nouman
Raja for the below-listed felony offenses:

Count Number One: On October 18, 2015, in the County of Palm Beach, State of Florida, Nouman Raja unlawfully
and by his own acts of culpable negligence, killed Corey Jones, a human being, by shooting him with a ?rearm without
lawful justi?cation. Therefore, your af?ant believes probable cause exists to charge Nouman Raja with the offense of
Manslaughter with a Firearm, contrary to Florida Statute 782.071( 1).

Count Number Two: On October 18, 2015, in the County of Palm Beach, State of Florida, Nouman Raja attempted to
commit First Degree Murder upon Corey Jones by unlawfully shooting him twice, but not causing death, and
attempting to shoot him an additional three times with a ?rearm. Therefore, your af?ant believes probable cause exists
to charge Nouman Raja with the offense of Attempted First Degree Murder with a Firearm, contrary to Florida Statutes
777.04(1) and and 

 

 

 



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Notary Public, Clerk of Cou . Of?c F.S.S. 117.10) (Signature of Arresting/investigating Of?cer)
)0 Mark Anderson #1021
The foregoing instrument was sworn to or digit/5g D, of 20 16 Depmy Chief Investigator
and subscribed before me this I State Attorney?s Of?ce
15?h Judicial Circuit
Who is personally known to me and/or produced identi?cation.
STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF PALM BEACH