From Veronica Jones's police statement, dated Dec. 15, 1981, six days after the shooting: "I was in a little restaurant called Rocky's. It is on Chancellor Street. We were drinking beer. We came out of the restaurant and went down the alley toward 12th Street. We went down 12th Street and crossed Locust Street. We joked around on the corner for a while. We walked around by the entrance to the [subway] and [her friend Candy] started talking to someone in a car and I walked back around the corner to Locust Street. As I was walking away from the [subway] entrance, I heard firing. I heard three shots. I looked down Locust Street towards Johnny Dee's and I saw a policeman fall. I saw two black guys walk across Locust Street and then they started sort of jogging. The next thing I saw was a [police] wagon coming. There was one other black guy standing by the entrance of the [subway] by Johnny Dee's."
Jones's statement was used by the defense to cast doubt on Cynthia White's claim that she was standing on the southeast corner of Locust and 13th during the shooting. Jones claimed that White was half a block west of the crime scene.
Jones also claimed, in her initial police interview, to have seen one or more people flee the scene east along the south side of Locust. On the stand, she denied telling that to police.
The defense alleges that Jones received an offer of immunity from arrest if she testified for the prosecution-and recanted her story about seeing someone flee. The defense made a similar allegation regarding the testimony of Cynthia White.
In early January 1982, according to the defense, Jones testified that she was arrested along with other women on prostitution charges and questioned about the Faulkner shooting. She said, "They were trying to get me to say something that the other girl [White] said. I couldn't do that."
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