On October 2nd, 2020, Tyris Jones was a 20 year old black man driving on the west side of Rockford.
Tyris was driving with a woman in the passenger seat.
The Rockford Police Department alleged that SCOPE team officer Dominik McNiece seen Tyris and knew there was a domestic violence warrant out for Tyris’s arrest. Though, this would not be the first or last time McNiece decided to chase an unarmed black man.
McNiece initiated a high speed pursuit of Tyris by aggressively following behind in his unmarked patrol vehicle.
This chase lasted over 10 minutes.
The high speed pursuit ended when Tyris crashed his vehicle into another near the intersection of South Main and Harrison. Tyris got out of his vehicle and began running away with only his phone in hand.
Once the crash happened, McNiece got out his car and raised his gun towards Tyris as he was running away from the crashed car.
Dominik McNiece shot Tyris three times in the back as he was running away.
Dash camera footage and security camera footage captured the shooting but has been withheld from the public.
This was the twenty-second case investigated and justified by the Winnebago Boone County Integrity Task Force.
It was the second deadly force incident in the 2020’s and the 11th since Tom McNamara took mayoral office.