The police had historically described his death as suicide, but a 2017 inquest – the third on his death – admitted he was murdered in an anti-gay hate crime. There have been many investigations into the cause of this death.
His injuries were consistent with attackers having jumped on his chest while he lay on the ground. An independent police report described it as the result of a ''high-spirited frolic' that went wrong'. Two police officers were charged but acquitted, and the case was said to have been the subject of a government cover-up. Jones refused to identify their attackers out of fear for his life. Eva Analía De Jesús was absolved of the murder in 2022. She was incarcerated for the killing, leading to protests in Argentina. When the men hit her, she pulled out a knife and killed one of them.
In 2016 in Bella Vista, Buenos Aires, lesbian football player Eva Analía De Jesús, known as 'Higui', was surrounded by a group of men who threatened to rape her.
