On September 7, 2020, 18-year-old Jalonte Jones was shot in the parking lot of the Elm on Panorama apartments on East Harvard Avenue in southeast Denver. Officers responding to reports of shots fired found Jones bleeding from a gunshot wound to his leg. Body camera footage later showed Jones audibly saying he was dying while the first responding officers did not render first aid for more than ten minutes; one officer, Dewayne Rodgers, later said he hesitated to touch Jones because he could not locate the wound through the blood. Paramedics arrived about 14 minutes after Officer Rodgers and Jones had no pulse; he was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

An internal Denver Police Department inquiry raised concerns about the officers’ failure to provide aid. Officer Dewayne Rodgers was terminated; another officer on scene, David Clough, resigned before the internal investigation concluded. The day after the shooting, 24-year-old DeAndre Horton was arrested; he later pleaded guilty to first-degree assault with extreme indifference and received a 10-year prison sentence. In June 2023 the Denver City Council approved a $450,000 settlement with Jones’s estate.

Are there witnesses or anyone with additional information about what happened that night?