He stayed in Julius’ room while Julius slept on the sofa. Little did the investigators know that Chris spent the night at the Jones’ house a few days earlier after he was locked out of his grandmother’s home. He also said that Julius was guilty of killing Paul and he said he knew exactly where the bandana and gun were in the home. When the police brought in Chris for questioning they found out that he was a current police informant. Lottie refused after finding out the car was linked to murder so Julius and Ladell left the car parked at a grocery store. The next day Ladell and Julius went to see if a man by the name of Kermit Lottie would buy the vehicle. They decided to leave the vehicle at Ladell’s home overnight. And Ladell said he would make a few calls. Chris asked if anyone could buy the vehicle. He said Julius and another man by the name of Chris Jordan pulled up to his apartment. The police started to suspect Julius after a man named Ladell King, a police informant at the time walked into the Oklahoma City police department and told investigators that on the night of the murder he saw Julius with a white T-shirt and red bandana driving a suburban. Howell’s sister and two daughters ran into the home but unfortunately, Paul was pronounced dead at the hospital. Howell pulled into the driveway of his parent’s home in his 1997 GMC suburban when a black man wearing a bandanna covering his face pointed a gun and shot him after demanding the car keys. The same day around 9:30 pm, eight miles from Julius’ home Paul Howell, a 45-year-old white male, was coming back home after going to school shopping with his sister Megan and his two daughters. The 131-mile walk was limited to only five people to maintain Covid-19 safety precautions as well as to ensure that the group is not viewed as a mob when they march through certain rural parts of the state, which could attract troublemakers.On the evening of Wednesday, July 28, 1999, Jones was at his parent’s home in the state of Oklahoma enjoying dinner and playing monopoly with his family. The march was organized by Irv Roland and and a racially diverse five-person group of men and women will be participating. The march that kicked off on Thursday, December 31 at the State Capital in Oklahoma City, will conclude at the Department of Corrections in McAlester, Oklahoma on Sunday, January 3. Read More: Kim Kardashian visits death row inmate Julius Jones File photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP/The Oklahoman)Īs previously mentioned by theGrio, when prison reform advocate Kim Kardashian West visited Jones in prison, her face-to-face meeting with the death row inmate sparked excitement and boosted morale for Jones’s family and supporters. He was sentenced to death when he was only 22-years-old. Julius Jones is currently on death row in Oklahoma, and a group of activists seeking justice for Jones are in the midst of walking 131 miles across Oklahoma in hopes of bringing awareness to his plight.ĭespite maintaining his innocence and despite compelling evidence that he was wrongly convicted, Jones was charged with murdering businessman, Paul Howell in 1999.
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