Edward Nelson Jones Jr., known as Eddie, was a 28-year-old Chicago Police patrolman in the 10th District Marquette Tactical Unit who was killed on January 7, 1991. On third watch with partner Patrolman Dennis Dobson, the two arrested 25-year-old Alexis Green for possession of a controlled substance. Green offered to lead the officers to a "better bust" and was placed handcuffed in the back seat of their unmarked squad car.

While driving near Cermak Road and Western Avenue, Green retrieved a gun that had not been found during the earlier search and forced the officers into the parking lot of Fairplay Finer Foods at 2202 South Western Avenue. He shot both officers in the back of the head; Jones was taken to Cook County Hospital and pronounced dead at 5:23 p.m. Dobson survived and was treated at Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center.

Police located Alexis Green at an apartment on West 15th Street; the .38 caliber murder weapon and Dobson’s firearm were recovered from a separate location. Green was charged with murder, attempted murder, possession of a controlled substance, and escape. Jones’s funeral was held at Bethel Lutheran Church and he was cremated and entombed at Oak Woods Cemetery.

Did anyone in the community see the officers or that unmarked squad car on Cermak Road that afternoon?