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David Jones was 30 when he was shot and killed in Philadelphia on June 8, 2017. He was riding a dirt bike near Whitaker and Hunting Park Avenues when Officer Ryan Pownall stopped him. Pownall conducted a pat-down and found a gun in Jones’s waistband; a struggle followed and accounts differ on what happened next. Witness reports say Jones dropped the gun and ran; Pownall fired multiple times, striking Jones twice in the back. Jones was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.

Surveillance footage from a diner captured part of the incident, and Jones’s gun was later recovered about 30 feet from where he fell. The shooting prompted protests and demands for justice from family and community activists. Commissioner Richard Ross fired Pownall in September 2017, and a grand jury later recommended murder and reckless endangerment charges. The first-degree charge was reduced to third-degree murder; the city reached a $1 million settlement with Jones’s family in October 2018. Legal challenges over the state’s use-of-force law produced delays in the criminal case, and Pownall was released on bail pending trial.

Does anyone have additional information about Jones’s last hours or the surveillance footage location?