Jonathan Price was an American black man, athlete, bodybuilder, personal trainer, and the hero of his community. His death created widespread chaos as he was shot by a White Texas Police officer Shaun David Lucas.
This incident is currently investigating by the Texas Rangers with the cooperation of the Wolfe City Police Department and the Hunt Country District Attorney’s Police.
On 3rd October 2020, the American officer received a disturbance call at the 100 block of Santa Fe Street for an ongoing dispute. As soon as he reached the Kwik Cheek gas station in Wolfe City, he encountered Jonathan who got involved in a fight with a man and a woman.
While the officer tried to hold him up, he resisted in an unthreatened gesture and starting walking away. After this, Lucas took out his weapon and shot him to death.
The Rangers found this action “not objectionably responsible”. Therefore, they arrested David under the charges of murder and locked him up in Hunt Country Jail and shifted to Rockwall Country Jail. His bail was set for $1 million.
Full Story & Major Details
According to a statement released by the Rangers, On Saturday night of 3rd October 2020, he was gunned by a Texas Police officer and lost his life while taken to the hospital.
Since then, the athlete’s family is devastated and is doing everything to provide justice to their late beloved son. Even the entire Texas City is shocked by this incident and its citizens are filled with anger and rage against this cruelty of the police officer. They are conducting rallies and are doing candle March to show their support towards their community hero.
Price’s family with the help of their civil rights lawyer Dallas Attorney Lee Merritt took to his social media handle about the detailed clarification in this matter.
They stated that when Jonathon saw a man hitting a woman at the gas station, he went to protect the lady and tried to solve the dispute between the two.
When the dispute was almost about to be solved, the police officers arrived. Price raised his hands in an attempt to dictate the whole scenario to them but they didn’t listenandLucos fired tasers at him. When his body convulsed from the electric current, he realized a threat and shot him, leaving him lifeless.
After this incident, the first responders took the hometown hero to Hunt Regional Hospital in a hope that he might come back to life but he couldn’t be saved and left the world.
On 5th February 2020, lawyer Merritt and his relatives came together in the site of this incident and called out to Hunt Country District Attorney to issue an arrest warrant for the officer who shot Price, to fight against this unfairness.
It has also been in news recently that the Camera recordings at the place of this mishappening are about to be released in public which will clarify all the doubts and will give a clearer picture of what actually happened on 3rd October 2020.
Wiki/Biography
Jonathan Price was born on 3rd November 1988 in Wolfe City, Texas. He belonged to a large American family. His mother’s name is Marcella while there’s not much information available about his father.
He was raised in Texas with his siblingRaylisaLouis. Jonathon completed his schooling from Wolfe City High School and used to play baseball for his school’s team. Later, in 2008-09 he went to Hardin – Simmons University and graduated from Sam Houston State University in 2012 with a degree in Kinesiology & exercise science.
Quick Trivia
- Full name: Jonathan Price
- Nickname: Jonathan.
- Birth: 3rd November 1988.
- Birthplace: Wolfe City, Texas.
- Died on: 3rd October 2020.
- Age: 33 years as of 2020.
- Horoscope: Scorpio
- Gender: Male.
- Sexuality: Heterosexual.
- Nationality: American.
- Ethnicity: Black
- Religion: Christianity.
Parents
- Father: To be updated
- Mother: Marcella.
Siblings
- Brother: None
- Sister: Raylisa Louis.
Education
- Highest Education: High School.
- University/College: Sam Houston State University
Personal Information
- Marital Status: Single
- Past Affairs: To be updated
- Girlfriend: To be updated
- Eating Habits: Non- Vegan
- Smoke: No
- Drinks: Occasionally.
- Pets: No.
Physical stats & More
Height
- In Feet & Inches: 6′ 0″
- Centimeters: 182 cm.
- Meters: 1.82 m.
Weight
- In Kilograms: 80kgs
Body Stats
- Skin color: Black.
- Eye color: Brown
- Hair color: Black
- Hair type: Straight
- Body type: Muscular
Other Random Information about Jonathon Price
- Jonathan used to work as a city employee and was regarded as the Hero of his community for his good works.
- American was also a bodybuilder and personal trainer.
- In 2015, he founded his personal training business, Repetitive Reps, and used to train many people.
Jonathan Price was shot at the Gas Station by David Lucas - His clients used to call him ‘ Coach Price’.
- Jonathan Price loved to play sports and baseball was his favorite of all.
- The athlete was friends with MLB Champion, Will Middlebrook as they used to play baseball together.
- Will Middlebrooks has turned out to be his biggest support and is putting every effort to give justice to his late childhood friend.
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