It seems in retrospect to his family that Steven Tyrone Jones must have been awake upstairs, perhaps anticipating the trouble to come, when police showed up before dawn Tuesday at his father?s front door.

“They?re for me,” Jones told his father, and so Michael Rock went downstairs to let them in ? just another arrest on his son?s rap sheet, he thought. But in the time it took police to reach the staircase, according to Rock?s account of the shooting that critically wounded a decorated Maryland State trooper and cost Jones his life, something turned his son fatalistic.