Corey Jones packed up his drum sticks, got in his car and headed home. 
 
 He had just wrapped up another gig in Jupiter with his band, Future Prezidents, and the Boynton Beach man was all smiles before he embarked south early Sunday, a band mate said. 
 
 But his car broke down just after 3 a.m. He wouldn't make it home after that. 
 
 The 31-year-old Boynton Beach man was shot dead by a Palm Beach Gardens officer who stopped to inspect Jones' vehicle, thinking it was abandoned, and a deadly altercation ensued, police said. 
 
 "I don't understand," band mate Boris Simeonov said. "Something seems really wrong here." 
 
 Officer Nouman Raja, 38, was on duty in plain clothes and riding in an unmarked car about 3:15 a.m. when he saw Jones' vehicle just off Interstate 95 near PGA Boulevard and stopped to investigate, according to a news release from the Palm Beach Gardens Police Department. 
 
 Palm Beach Gardens Police Department Palm Beach Gardens Police have identified the officer who shot and killed Boynton Beach resident Corey Jones, 31, Sunday as Nouman Raja, right, in an April, 13 photo with Police Chief Stephen Stepp when he was hired. Palm Beach Gardens Police have identified the officer who shot and killed Boynton Beach resident Corey Jones, 31, Sunday as Nouman Raja, right, in an April, 13 photo with Police Chief Stephen Stepp when he was hired. (Palm Beach Gardens Police Department) (Palm Beach Gardens Police Department) 
 
 "As the officer exited his vehicle, he was suddenly confronted by an armed subject," Officer Ellen Lovejoy wrote in the release on Monday. "As a result of the confrontation, the officer discharged his firearm," resulting in Jones' death. 
 
 Police haven't specified what type of weapon Jones had. And additional details about what led to the shooting haven't been disclosed, pending an investigation. 
 
 The whole incident has left Jones' family demanding answers. 
 
 "He was sitting on the side of the road and got shot," said Jones' uncle, Sylvester Banks Jr., of Clearwater. "We didn't find out about it until about 12 hours later." 
 
 Raja has been placed on paid administrative leave, per department policy. He has been with the Palm Beach Gardens Police Department since April, after working with the Atlantis Police Department, state records show. 
 
 The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office is investigating the shooting. 
 
 Bob Jarvis, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University, said things might have been different had the officer not been in plain clothes and an unmarked patrol car. 
 
 Jones may not have known "if someone was approaching to rob or mug him," Jarvis said. In such encounters, it could be that "the person doesn't realize that they're being approached by a cop." 
 
 Jarvis said what happened between the men might never be fully known because there were no cameras or bystanders. 
 
 "If Raja did do everything right, it's terrible for him," Jarvis said. "There were only two people and one of them is dead." 
 
 Sometime before Jones was shot, he had called a family member about the vehicle trouble and decided to call a tow truck, Banks said. 
 
 Banks said Jones played the drums in church and with several local bands. 
 
 "Everyone loved him," Banks said. "He was raised in church all his life." 
 
 Jones' family is well-known in Boynton Beach, partly because of their community service with the Bible Church of God in Boynton Beach where Jones' grandfather, Sylvester Banks, is a bishop. 
 
 Jones' brother Clinton "C.J." Jones was an NFL player with the Cleveland Browns in 2003 and New England Patriots 2008 and a cousin of current NFL player Anquan Boldin, a wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers. 
 
 Jones' aunt, as well as godmother, Sheila Banks, of Atlanta, said her nephew worked for the city of Delray Beach housing authority. Jones' mother died of breast cancer seven years ago and his grandmother died last week, family members say. 
 
 His nieces and nephews are devastated and can't sleep, she said. 
 
 "There's a family reunion this Saturday and we were planning on [meeting for] lunch," Sheila Banks said. "I'm just in disbelief." 
 
 Like others in her family, Banks is waiting for authorities to release more information about how and why Jones was killed. 
 
 "We haven't gotten any answers yet," she said. "All we know is someone shot him." 
 
 On Monday evening, church and family members held a prayer vigil for Jones. 
 
 Family members described him as a happy soul who had been playing the drums for almost all of his life. Through tears, some expressed the sadness and shock of what happened. 
 
 Cassandra Gibbs, Jones' cousin, said she knows her cousin wouldn't do anything to provoke being shot at. 
 
 "It feels like a sharp pain, like a knife," she said. 
 
 During the vigil, everyone took hands, swayed back and forth and sang songs asking God to heal their wounded hearts. Church apostle Tommy Brown led the group in prayer, his eyes closed, his voice loud and powerful. 
 
 "We ask you Lord God to help. We ask you not only to help, but to heal," he said. "And we ask you not only to heal, but to vindicate." 
 
 Staff writer Barbara Hijek contributed to this report. asacasa@tribpub.com, 561-243-6607 or Twitter & Instagram @adamsacasa 

 Prescription drugs seized from a suspect were found in Nouman Raja’s car without him ever filing a report, it emerges, as Florida investigation continues 
 
 The plainclothes police officer who shot dead a 31-year-old black man in southern Florida was threatened with suspension at his previous department after holding on to prescription drugs that he seized from a suspect. 
 
 
 
 Palm Beach Gardens officer Nouman Raja, who killed Corey Jones, was reprimanded by commanders at Atlantis police department for being “derelict in the performance of his duties” by repeatedly mishandling evidence and paperwork, according to his disciplinary file. 
 
 Pills confiscated by Raja from a woman who obtained them without a prescription in January 2013 were discovered in Raja’s patrol car more than a week later. “Officer Raja said he never did the report and he never secured the evidence,” his sergeant wrote in the file. 
 
 The file was released by the Atlantis police chief, Robert Mangold, on Tuesday and first published by the author Ray Downs, as county investigators looked into Raja’s fatal shooting of Jones on an exit ramp of interstate 95 in the early hours of Sunday morning. Police union leaders warned the city was risking “another Ferguson” by withholding information. 
 
 Jones’s family has recruited Benjamin Crump, the prominent civil rights lawyer who represented the families of Michael Brown and Tamir Rice after they were killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri, and Cleveland, Ohio, last year. In a statement released through Crump on Tuesday the family said Jones had “dedicated his life to doing the right thing”. 
 
 “He lived every moment to the fullest and was an inspiration to many; the kind of son, brother and friend people could only hope for,” they said. 
 
 At a press conference, the Palm Beach Gardens police chief, Stephen Stepp, reiterated police claims that Raja, who had arrived in an unmarked police car, fired after being threatened by Jones. Police allege Jones was holding a pistol later found beside his car. “As the officer exited his vehicle he was suddenly confronted by an armed subject,” said Stepp. 
 
 Friends and relatives of Jones argue that the police account does not make sense and say he must not have known that Raja, who is 38 and was not wearing a uniform, was a police officer. 
 
 Family members said the 31-year-old, who played the drums, sent a text message saying he was waiting with his vehicle after it broke down on his return from a concert. They said he had a gun and a permit for carrying a concealed firearm for his job as a housing inspector for a public authority, but insisted he would never have threatened anyone with the weapon. 
 
 Stepp released little new information on Tuesday, citing an ongoing external investigation by the Palm Beach county sheriff’s office. He resisted requests from reporters to describe in more detail the interaction between Raja and Jones that preceded the shooting. Stepp said there was no dashboard camera footage of the incident and that no Palm Beach Gardens officers used body-mounted cameras. 
 
 Stepp said that at the time of the incident, around 3.15am, Raja had been working in a plainclothes detail assigned to tackle a recent spate of burglaries in the area. 
 
 Paperwork indicated that Jones had legally purchased his gun three days before Raja shot him, Stepp said on Tuesday. As well as finding the handgun outside his car, officers discovered the box in which the gun was purchased inside the car, according to Stepp. 
 
 The police chief expressed condolences to Jones’s family but said he had not yet been able to meet them. 
 
 Raja worked for Atlantis police between 2008 and 2015, according to department records, before he was hired by the Palm Beach Gardens department in April. Stepp said the officer had no disciplinary issues since then. 
 
 His Atlantis file showed, however, that internal inquiries into his failure to submit evidence or paperwork in the prescription drugs case – which resulted in a lack of prosecution – also turned up several other unfiled reports from various other cases to which he had been assigned. His sergeant, whose name was unclear from a signature, wrote that Raja accepted he had been at fault and took responsibility. 
 
 “Officer Raja is to be put on notice that any future incidents of this nature will result in a suspension,” wrote the sergeant, who recommended a written reprimand. The report and recommendation were approved and signed by Mangold, the chief. 
 
 Jones’s grandfather, Sylvester Banks Sr, addressed reporters after the press conference on Tuesday and thanked the public for their support. “I believe the best thing that can ever come out is the truth,” Banks said. 
 
 Banks also urged supporters to remain peaceful as information about the shooting is released. Palm Beach Gardens officers have reportedly received death threats since Jones died. The department’s Facebook page was deactivated because of “numerous posts containing profanity and negative racial comments”, officials said. 
 
 Stepp scheduled Tuesday’s press conference after repeated criticisms over the lack of information the department had released about the shooting. 
 
 Even the president of Palm Beach county’s police union called on the department to be more transparent in its handling of the case. “You don’t want another Ferguson, where they sat on information for days, and it seems like this is what Gardens is doing,” John Kazanjian said. 
 
 Acknowledging the combustible atmosphere, Stepp said on Tuesday: “I understand the public’s concern – we share that.” 
 
 The chief said the Palm Beach county sheriff’s office had asked him not to release material such as recordings of 911 calls or radio transmissions, photographs, notes “in order to maintain the integrity of the investigation”. 

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– A Florida police officer fatally shot a black man who was having car trouble early Sunday. Nouman Raja of the Palm Beach Gardens Police Department was in plainclothes and an unmarked police cruiser when he arrived at Corey Jones' broken-down car off Interstate 95 around 3am, reports NBC News. Police Chief Stephen Stepp says Raja, 38, believed the car was abandoned but was "suddenly confronted by an armed subject." Raja—who was in "good standing" with the Atlantis Police Department before joining the force in April—shot and killed Jones, 31, police say, adding there's no dash-cam video of the incident. A handgun purchased by Jones days earlier was found outside his vehicle, Stepp says. "Something seems really wrong here," says a friend of Jones. It's a sentiment echoed by family members who say Jones, a drummer in the band Future Prezidents, chose to wait for a tow truck when his car broke down after a show, per the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Jones carried a gun for protection as an inspector with the Delray Beach Housing Authority, but relatives say he wasn't violent and must not have known that Raja was a police officer. "Corey Jones was a God-fearing man who dedicated his life to doing the right thing," his family says in a statement through lawyers Benjamin Crump and Daryl Parks, who've worked with relatives of Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown. "Rest assured, we are working diligently with our legal team to determine exactly why this plainclothes officer in an unmarked car would approach Corey." Stepp says there were no previous complaints against Raja, though the Guardian reports he was threatened with suspension in Atlantis for keeping prescription drugs taken from a suspect; he's currently on paid leave.