Carmelo Jones

**Carmelo Jones** was the founder of the Revolutionary Army, the first governor of the New Afrikan Community and the Head of the Council of Elders. He was originally a resident of Oklahoma and spent most of his time raised in the farms in a rural county. There he would learn agriculture, community planning and hunting before moving to the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia becoming lawyer, political activist and a prominent member of city council. After the numerous police killings and economic downturn, he leads a protest which eventually establishes an autonomous zone within the United States of America. After leading for nearly half a year he would be assassinated by the FBI Special Weapons And Tactics being led by **Captain** Conrad Smith a former operator of Delta Force.

Carmelo acts as a supporting character of the **Into the Dark** *series*.

## Appearance

Carmelo is a tall African American man with a slender physique with short curly black hair a thin beard and mustache, and bright hazel eyes.

He typically dressed in a beret, with a black long sleeved shirt and pants with dark brown shoes.

## Personality

Carmelo is shown to be a calm and cheerful individual who cares and puts his community and people in it first. Because of that he is widely respected even by the District Representative and Atlanta Police Department. as he's able to make people feel calm in his presence.

Dante described him as a natural revolutionary and tactician as he was able to devise strategies that gave his desired outcome, often times outsmarting those around him, traits that he shared with **Minister** Malik Hussein and **Commander** Dante Bishop.

This ability to inspire and rally those around him was the greatest weapon Dante utilized.

## Biography

### Background

Carmelo was born into a poverty stricken family, he had little money and many of the families in the surrounding neighborhood were in similar situations. As a result he spent most of his young life learning how to farm, raise livestock, plant crops while lacking in a formal education.

Due to his lack of formal education and dropping out at a young age Carmelo was illiterate up until he was seventeen n where he learned properly from studying Plato, Shakesphere and Socrates. After getting his GED he finally moved from the countryside to the urban city. There he applied for college where he studied law, politics, philosophy and community planning. He also began to take activism more seriously during this time engaging in a number of protests against police brutality and racial injustice.

Eventually he was arrested by the police and jailed, however his selfless acts lead to him being vilified by the community. While imprisoned Carmelo wrote several works in which he envisioned a self-sustainable community which did not rely on the government, the people helped one another without being motivated by selfishness and technology, reason and empathy were present.

### Events of the **Into the Dark** *series*

#### Early Outbreak

After the Los Angeles riots and the jailbreaks that perpetuated all over the United States, Carmelo was finally released by the discontent citizens who’d had enough of the state and local government. To help maintain the safety of this community Carmelo established a committee, a national guard and led the charge in the establishment of a self-sustainable community which housed thousands with the national guard numbering at least three hundred.

## Weapons Used

AK-47

M1911 A1