A fifty-year-old male, Robert Lee Jones Jr. of White Haven, Pennsylvania, was fatally shot on the evening of Saturday, April 4, 2020. The incident took place on a roadway in Lausanne Township, near Weatherly, about a mile from Lehigh Gorge State Park in Carbon County. The shooting was the culmination of an argument between two men.
State police were called to the scene on North Lehigh Gorge Drive shortly before 6:30 p.m. where they found Jones deceased from gunshot wounds. The investigation that followed led to another man, Alexander Cunningham, being taken into custody. According to reports from the time, Cunningham was at the location to pick up his girlfriend and her two children. The children's father is the son of Robert Lee Jones Jr. and was incarcerated at the time.
An argument had reportedly taken place, leading to the girlfriend leaving a residence. Cunningham encountered her as Jones was attempting to get her into his vehicle. It was during this confrontation that the fatal shooting occurred. Cunningham later claimed to investigators that Jones had come at him with a metal object, and he responded by shooting him three times.
While state police identified the incident as isolated with no further danger to the public, details regarding the specific charges filed against Alexander Cunningham, and the subsequent legal proceedings, including any trial or conviction, are not available in the online sources reviewed. Therefore, the final resolution of the case remains publicly unknown.
