An independent investigation is under way after a plainclothes Florida officer shot dead a well-known local drummer — who police say was armed — while he sat in his car on a highway exit ramp, NBC News reported.
Nouman Raja, an officer with Palm Beach Gardens Police Department, fatally shot Corey Jones, 31, early on Sunday, the police department said in a statement Monday.
Raja pulled over in his unmarked police vehicle to investigate what he thought was an abandoned car, but was "suddenly confronted by an armed subject," the statement said. "As a result of the confrontation, the officer discharged his firearm resulting in the death of the subject, Corey Jones."
Raja has been put on paid administrative leave and the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office was conducting an independent investigation, the statement said.
