Jonathan Paul Luna was an Assistant United States Attorney in Baltimore, Maryland, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances.
19 Facts About Jonathan Luna
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Investigations have proven inconclusive, and there is debate on whether Jonathan Luna's death was murder or suicide.
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Jonathan Luna was born on October 21,1965, and grew up in the Patterson houses near Yankee Stadium in the South Bronx, New York City.
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Jonathan Luna's father was Filipino and his mother an African-American from the American South.
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Jonathan Luna later studied at the University of North Carolina School of Law, where he was roommates with Reggie Shuford.
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Jonathan Luna served as a prosecutor in the Brooklyn borough of New York City before moving to Baltimore to become an Assistant United States Attorney.
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Jonathan Luna married Angela Hopkins, an obstetrician, on August 29,1993, and they had two children.
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Jonathan Luna used his E-ZPass to cross into Delaware but not on the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Turnpikes.
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At 4:04 am Jonathan Luna's car exited the turnpike at the Reading-Lancaster interchange.
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Half an hour later, at 5:30 am Jonathan Luna's car was noticed, with its lights off and the front end into the creek.
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Jonathan Luna was face down in the creek under the car engine, wearing a suit and a black overcoat with his court ID around his neck.
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Some suggested motives for suicide were that Jonathan Luna was to take a polygraph test concerning $36,000 which disappeared from a robbery case that he had prosecuted.
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Jonathan Luna had a charge card which his wife did not know about.
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Jonathan Luna's name was on an Internet dating site and he had a $25,000 credit card debt.
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The Lancaster County coroner who performed Jonathan Luna's autopsy ruled his death a homicide by drowning.
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Jonathan Luna left his glasses, which he needed to drive, and his cell phone on his desk in Baltimore.
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Jonathan Luna had called defense attorneys earlier in the night saying he would fax over documents that never arrived.
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The pool of blood in the backseat of the car would suggest Jonathan Luna was in the back while someone else was driving.
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In early February 2007, a private investigator and an attorney, both hired by Jonathan Luna's family, filed a petition for a writ of mandamus in order to force the Lancaster County coroner to conduct an inquest into Jonathan Luna's death, after an earlier request was declined.