

Two days after the shooting, Oklahoma City police found Howell's Suburban parked near a convenience store on the south side of town. Howell died a few hours later of a single gunshot wound to the head. Howell's parents ran outside and found their son lying in the driveway. The murderer then left in Howell's Suburban. As they ran, she heard someone yelling at her to stop, and a second gunshot. Tobey pulled the two children out of the back seat and ran with them through her parents' carport. The man demanded that Howell give him the keys to the Suburban. Tobey turned to face her brother and saw a young black male, who wore a white T-shirt, a red bandana over his face, and a black stocking cap on his head, standing beside the vehicle's open driver's side door. As Tobey exited the passenger side of the vehicle, she heard a gunshot. Paul Scott Howell, a businessman, pulled into the driveway of his parents' home in Edmond, Oklahoma in his GMC Suburban on Jafter an evening of shopping for school supplies and eating ice cream with his two young daughters and his sister, Megan Tobey.
JUSTICE FOR JULIUS TRIAL
The State also presented evidence at his trial of various unadjudicated acts which included attempting to elude a police officer, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, armed robbery of a jewelry store at Quail Springs Mall, two armed carjackings in July 1999 at the Hideaway Pizza, and a physical altercation with a detention officer. At the time of the murder of Paul Howell, Jones had prior convictions, based upon guilty pleas, to unlawful use of a fictitious name, false declaration to a pawnbroker, concealing stolen property, and larceny from a retailer. Jones' family was not in poverty, but Jones committed several acts of larceny and petty theft, which he says he committed in order to obtain things his family could not afford. Jones won a partial academic scholarship to the University of Oklahoma but withdrew during his second semester. Jones has said that he knew Jordan was not a good influence, but wanted to help him. Blake and Taylor Griffin's father coached Jones and his friend, Christopher Jordan, who later became his co-defendant in the 1999 crime. He attended John Marshall High School in Oklahoma City, where he was a star basketball player. He was the second of three siblings and has one younger sister, Antoinette, and one older brother, Antonio. Jones was born to Madeline Davis-Jones on July 25, 1980, in Oklahoma. 3.2.7 Ineffective assistance of counsel.3.2.6 Trial errors and prosecutorial misconduct.3.2.2 Admissibility and sufficiency of evidence.
