National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial

Officer Rank: Lieutenant

Memorial Panel: 43-W: 2

Department: Cleveland, Ohio, P.D.

End of Watch: July 23, 1968

Cause: SHOT

Age: 47

Years of Service: 22

Description: Lieutenant Jones, Patrolman Willard Wolff and Patrolman Lewis Golonka were ambushed and shot by sniper fire. His partner tried to get to him, but the gunfire was too heavy. Other officers made a smoke cover and retrieved Lieutenant Jones who was then transported to the hospital where he died. The incident, which became known as the Glenville riot, lasted for five days and left 14 officers wounded. A fourth officer, Patrolman Thomas J. Smith, was also shot in this incident and died as a direct result of the injury on March 9, 1993. Their assailant, a radical militant, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.