U.S. URGED TO TRY JONES SLAYING

The mother of a Hyattsville man fatally shot by a Prince George's County
officer in Fairfax County last month denounced yesterday the version of
events outlined by the Fairfax commonwealth's attorney and urged the U.S.
Justice Department to prosecute the officer.

Mable Jones, mother of Prince C. Jones Jr., said at her attorney's office
in Washington that there "is no plausible scenario to justify the homicide
committed by Carlton Jones," the undercover narcotics detective who shot
and killed her son Sept. 1 after trailing him for 15 miles through three
jurisdictions.

Yesterday's comments by Mable Jones were her first since Fairfax County
Commonwealth's Attorney Robert F. Horan Jr. announced that he would not
seek criminal charges against Cpl. Carlton B. Jones, who is no relation to
Prince Jones. Horan said the officer feared for his life when he fired the
fatal shots. Carlton Jones fired 16 shots, six of which hit Prince Jones.

According to Prince George's police and Horan, Carlton Jones, 32, thought
he was following a 25-year-old Largo man who drives a black Jeep Cherokee
similar to the vehicle used by Prince Jones and who was involved in two
ramming incidents with county police earlier in the summer.

But Mable Jones, a physician who lives in Philadelphia, said that she
doubts the police version and that the Largo resident who was arrested,
Derrell Lamont Gilchrist, is simply a "scapegoat for police."

"I am convinced, now more than ever, that Carlton Jones lied when he says
that my son got out of his Jeep and came face to face with him," she said,
adding that Gilchrist has jaw-length dreadlocks and a beard and is nearly a
foot shorter than her son.

"We now call for the attorney general of the United States, Janet Reno, to
do the right thing and prosecute this officer under the criminal rights
statutes," Mable Jones said.

Fairfax police declined yesterday to say whether Gilchrist was the man
named by Carlton Jones in a 911 call after the shooting, and they also
declined to release a transcript or tape of the call.

Attorneys for Mable Jones said yesterday that they plan to file a civil
suit against the Prince George's police and Carlton Jones within the next
month. Doing so would give them the legal power to obtain evidence
collected by Fairfax detectives, said Ted J. Williams, one of two lawyers
on the case.

An internal probe by Prince George's investigators continues, and Carlton
Jones, a six-year member of the force, remains on paid administrative
leave, police said.

The FBI is also investigating the shooting.