MEMPHIS, TN –Memphis police announced, during a news conference, that an MPD officer has been arrested and charged with Second Degree Murder in the death of a woman who was found inside a car at a Memphis gas station.

According to Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin, Officer Chancy Jones was in a sexual relationship with the victim, Phyllis Malone, over a period of weeks. Director Godwin says Jones was married and had two children. At some point Jones’ relationship with Malone became troubled and the two agreed to meet at a gas station in the 1700 block of Whitten Road, where the murder happened, said Godwin. Malone’s body was found, slumped over the wheel of a car at the Shell gas station in Northeast Memphis, by a Wonder Bread delivery driver, Tuesday, September 9, 2008, around 5:40 a.m.

Director Godwin says an investigation led detectives to Officer Jones as a suspect in the shooting. Investigators say Jones still went to work after the shooting for his shift at the Raines Station precinct and was later arrested.

Eyewitness News Everywhere looked into Officer Jones’ Personnel File at the Memphis Police Department and discovered that Jones appears to have been a model police officer. There was no disciplinary record for Jones, but there were many commendations and comments of praise within his file.