Newspapers made little of ituntil the US Attorney revealed that the federal monitor of the decree was having an affair with the priapic mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was forced to resign, and now sits in prison convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. The posse allegedly included Aiyanas father, Charles C.J. Jones. He gave her $800 for funeral costs. His brother stood over the dead man, a pistol in his hand, keeping an eye on the door in case someone walked in wanting to settle things. I wouldnt wish this on nobody in the world. Two trials against Officer Joseph Weekley ended without verdicts on a charge of reckless use of a gun. But the real mystery behind Officer Huffs murder is why Gibson was out on the street in the first place. Little Aiyana's death is heartbreaking! One ran off. Two days later, on May 16, police arrived at the house where Aiyana Jones lived, hoping to find Owens. Neighbor Paul Jameson, a former soldier whose wife had called in the break-in to 911, said the rookies ran toward the house and opened fire after Huff was shot. Aiyanas pink-robed body was carried away by a horse-drawn carriage to the Trinity Cemetery, the same carriage that five years earlier had taken the body of Rosa Parks to Woodlawn Cemetery on the citys West Side. He admitted in his first trial that, "It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl. "They said he'll be on parole until 2030, and he or his family can't be around my family. They were looking for a murder suspect. He might have smirked. Even the beavers have returned.The daughter of an autoworker and a home nurse, McNeal grew up in the promise of the black middle class that Detroit once offered. DETROITS EAST SIDE is now the poorest, most violent quarter of Americas poorest, most violent big city. The Detroit City Council needs to approve the settlement. Weekley claimed Aiyana Jones' paternal grandmother, Mertilla Jones, attempted to slap his MP5 submachine gun, causing it to fire. The city grew to 1.3 million people from 300,000 after Ford opened his Model T factory. Aiyana was sleeping on the couch next to her grandmother when, just after midnight, Officer Weekley's SWAT team threw a flashbang grenade through the living room window, setting fire to . Aiyana was buried in a white casket which was driven to her grave site by a horse-drawn carriage. Weekley was the first officer to enter the home, seconds after a flashbang grenade a war device created by the British SAS in the 1960s to disorient with a blinding flash and a temporarily deafening noise was lobbed into it. They were conducting a police raid in search of a murder suspect who lived at that address -- and being filmed for a reality TV show in the process -- when Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally fired his gun. In this current era, what she calls her "most confident" yet, she's channeling none other than her go-getter Bel-Air character Hilary Banks . held a small rally in memory of Jones. So there should have been a parade with confetti and tanks of lemonade, but instead, the complaints about overaggressive cops began to roll in. It is like that all over Detroit, where whole blocks regularly go dark with no warning or any apparent pattern. The judge denied the motion for mistrial, saying she believed the jury could still be "impartial." [37], Weekley's retrial started in September 2014. and Weekley for the unlawful use of excessive force. Three officers shot, standoff follows in Kansas City, Mo., police say, Vanessa Bryant, family settles claims over Kobe crash site photos for $28.5M. The SWAT team tried the steel door to the building. Detroit demolishes only 500 homes a year, thanks to concerns over lawsuits and environmental hazards, as well as lack of funds and ineptitude. The environment got nothing to do with kids.. Her grandmother, Mertilla Jones, was close by. [12], Two weeks prior to the incident, a Detroit police officer had been killed in the line of duty while attempting to arrest a suspect. Jones new family had been on the drift for the past few years as he tried to pull it together. Other auto plants sprang up on the East Side: Packard, Studebaker, Chryslers Dodge Main. Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights. Blame the Federal Reserve. What the hell you doing up here for? But the people of Lillibridge Street still look like theyve been picked up by their hair and dropped from the rooftop. [41][44][45][46] Because of Mertilla Jones's outburst, the judge stopped the trial until September 29. The dismissal was at the request of Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy, who called the decision, which by law cannot be appealed, unfortunate. In the end, Gibson was charged with Huffs murder and the attempted murders of four more officers. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. Not to worry: The city had its own welfare system, decades before Lyndon Johnsons Great Society. [12] Owens was in the upstairs apartment. [48] On January 28, 2015, county prosecutor Kym Worthy dismissed the last remaining charge against Weekley, the misdemeanor of 'careless discharge of a firearm causing death'. The title is derived from the California penal code for murder: 187. But according to a witness, he said nothing. I have . Detroit grew restless. Evans brought a refreshing honesty to a department plagued by ineptitude and secrecy. Families of people killed by police officers and activists gathered at the feet of the Spirit of Detroit statue in front of the Coleman A. Seconds after Aiyana's blanket caught fire, the SWAT team stormed through the door, and mistakenly shot Aiyana through the neck, killing her. Its easy in our anger, our rage, to just vent and scream. He got paid exactly what he was supposed to be paid.. Unclaimed bodies at the Wayne County MorgueTHE RAID ON THE Lillibridge house that took little Aiyanas life came two weeks and at least a dozen homicides after the last time police stormed into a Detroit home. "Aiyana's death was a tragic loss for her family and has been a heavy burden on our community. Suddenly, Detroit was historic, symbolichip, even. On May 16, 2010, 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones was shot and killed in her sleep by Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley after he accidentally entered the wrong apartment in an unannounced SWAT team raid. [65][unreliable source?] Family: 7-year-old shot by police was asleep. A wary Detroit police officer keeps watch over an unruly crowd after an arrest on the East Side.The judge, Cynthia Gray Hathaway, set his bond at $20,000only 10 percent of which was due upfrontand adjourned the trial without explanation, according to the docket. This is not about policing, he said. Its about state-sanctioned violence., US police departments are increasingly militarised, finds report, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The city provided clothing, fuel, rent, and $10 every week to adults for food; children got $5. The manslaughter trial was declared a mistrial. But the grandmother says she was lying on the far side of the couch, away from the door. There are some 10,000 unsolved homicides dating back to 1960. Its always like that. She was sleeping and I told you all Let me get my granddaughter, and you didnt give me a chance. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley is accused of fatally shooting Aiyana during the raid that targeted a murder suspect. Six individuals, who chained themselves to a Detroit Police Department precinct, were arrested Wednesday evening during a rally honoring Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a 7-year old who was shot and. I went to see Fieger to ask him to show me the tape. [CLICK HERE FOR CHARLIE LEDUFFS EXPOSE ON THE DETROIT AMBULANCE SYSTEM. The whole country knew it, and the whole country laughed. She denied grabbing the weapon. I got something for you.. And there are. The crime most likely happened at the . AIYANA WAS LAID TO REST six days after her killing. She said she made no contact with any officers. Seconds after entering the house, where the grenade had caused Aiyanas blanket to catch fire, Weekley fired one fatal shot. If you value what you get from Mother Jones, please join us with a tax-deductible donation today so we can keep on doing the type of journalism 2023 demands. People involved. He assigned the SWAT team the job of rounding up murder suspects, a task that had previously been done by detectives. Then she introduced me to her 14-year-old son DeErion, whose remains sat in an urn on the mantel. The car made Detroit, and the car unmade Detroit. Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she slept on a couch in a Detroit home in 2010. Lord Jesus, I ain't never seen nothing like that in my life."--Mertilla Jones, Aiyana's grandmother. ], My baby, my baby, my baby. [31] In June 2013, Howard pleaded "no contest" to the obstruction of justice charge, and the perjury charge was dismissed. [39], On October 3, the judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Weekley. Detroit has since made little progress on the federal consent decree. Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. IT WAS JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on the morning of May 16 and the neighbors say the streetlights were out on Lillibridge Street. Jones and two other men known as Lil James and Dirt rode along for JeReans ass-whipping. What happened after that is a matter of conjecture, as Detroit officials have had problems getting their stories straight. Aiyana Stanley-Jones, who was shot and killed in her sleep by a bullet from Joseph Weekley's gun during the A&E filmed documented raid was laid to rest at the Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit on May 22, 2010. What killed Aiyana is what killed the people in New Orleans and the rider on the transit in Oakland, and thats police bullets and police arrogance and police cover-up, Jones lawyer said. The house on the other side is in much the same state. Chaises mother, Britta McNeal, 39, sat on the porch staring blankly into the distance, smoking no-brand cigarettes. He is charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a. But he doesnt return my calls. It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder. Weekleys trial began in June 2013 and ended in a mistrial when a jury failed to reach a verdict. That factory closed in 1956 and was left to rot, pulling down the East Side, which pulled down the city. Jarrette Jones and Iyanna McNeely. But she added: "I hope he does the right thing when he gets outand triesto help these other young Black males out here;tell them about lifeand tell them what he did.". Aiyana Stanley-Jones was seven years old and asleep on a couch with her grandmother when Detroit police raided their east side home looking for a murder suspect in 2010. 2023 www.detroitnews.com. You should go, he said to me, shattering the silence with a wave of his hand. The home was the target of a midnight Swat-style operation designed to arrest her uncle who was living in the apartment upstairs and was the main suspect in the murder of a teenager a couple days before. Jones was arrested, and though she was quickly released it was not before she and two other family members Aiyanas parents had been forced to sit in their childs blood for hours, Scott said. Two days later, a crew from the Detroit Police Special Response Team raided Jones' house on Lillibridge Street, blocks from the store. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. [49], Aiyana Jones' funeral was held in the Second Ebenezer Church on May 22, 2010 in Detroit. [54][55], Attorney Fieger claimed that footage, from an undisclosed source, showed that the lethal bullet came from outside the home, rather than inside, as police said. Ive seen him in the faces of soldiers when I was covering the Iraq War. The police were . [41] Outside, three men were loading the boiler, tubs, and sinks into a trailer to take to the scrap yard. / AP. Dont bother locking it. Grover 08:10, 10 June 2014 (UTC) Reply . The death of Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones helped increased national awareness of the ongoing issue of unarmed Black Americans being killed by police. As Officer Weekley wept on the sidewalk, Aiyana was rushed to the trauma table, where she was pronounced dead. Not even you.. [12] She was one of three children of the couple and had four halfsiblings. The civil rights lawsuit, which alleges officers attempted to cover-up how Aiyana Stanley-Jones was killed, names Officer Joseph Weekley, Robert Rowe, the Detroit Police Department, and the city as defendants. JeRean might have thought it was funny to see a grown man driving a moped. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. [52], A civil rights lawsuit questioned Weekley's account of the incident, claiming the grenade had gone through the window and struck Aiyana. In a photograph from May 2010, Dominika Stanley and Charles Jones hold a picture of their daughter, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in a Detroit courtroom. Another cruiser with two officers responded as well. The lawsuit charges Rowe[who?] On April 4, 2019, Aiyanas family settled with Detroit for $8.25 million. I asked him if the way he was raising his daughter, the people he exposed her to, or the neighborhood where they livedwith its decaying houses and liquor storesmay have played a role. ", The mother of Jones' victim, Lyvonne Cargill, said: "I'm stressed thinking about that man coming home." The Rev. Some 45,000 abandoned houses pock Detroit. WHat actually happened to this little girl? Owens didn't like the way the Southeastern High School teen had looked at him, according to court testimony. In October 2011, he was charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. It fired. It just goes on, she said. The appellatecourt ruledthe presiding judge in Jones'case hadn'tadequately answered jurors' questionsduring deliberations. Mertilla Jones was held overnight by Detroit police and then released. They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. [30], Allison Howard, a videographer and photographer with A&E who was also present at the raid, was indicted on obstruction of justice and perjury for allegedly "copying, showing or giving video footage that she shot of the raid to third parties". [2] Her death drew national media attention[3] and led U.S. Representative John Conyers to ask U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for a federal investigation into the incident. A member of JROTC, he was on his way to the military recruitment office after senior prom and commencement. They turned on the lights and saw that she had been shot.. Judge Hathaway emphasized that two juries, in 2013 and 2014, couldn't reach a unanimous verdict. On October 3, the judge, Cynthia Gray Hathaway, dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Weekley, leaving him on trial for only one charge: recklessly discharging a firearm. The day Barrens cleaned out his desk, a burglar cleaned out Barrens house. [50][bettersourceneeded] The casket was white and was afterwards driven to the grave by horse-drawn carriage. Folks want to blame Aiyana's "crime ridden" neighborhood for her death. The silent suffering.. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. A former risk manager for the district was indicted for siphoning off $3 million for personal use. [12], According to press reports, police were on the scene by 12:40a.m. on Sunday, May 16, 2010. She looked at her barefoot grandson playing in the wreckage of the dwelling next door and wondered if he would make it to manhood. Weekley still is charged with careless discharge of a firearm causing death in the May 2010 shooting, which happened as police executed a search warrant for a murder suspect. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. She got pregnant at 15. Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.. I also found that the police and judicial systems were so broken that in more than 70 percent of murders, the killer got away with it. On 16 May 2010, Aiyana was shot dead by Weekley in the middle of the night, as she slept on a sofa inside her home on the east side of Detroit. More than 4,000 people attended Officer Huffs funeral at the Greater Grace Temple on the citys Northwest Side. In 2010 Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, a seven-year-old African American girl, was accidentally shot and killed during a raid that was conducted by the Detroit, Michigan Police Department's Special Response Team. Both sons now sit in urns on her mantel.Chaise lived on the other side of the Chrysler complex. The department decided to withdraw him from active duty shortly after the shooting on May 16, 2010. He failed to report. 2:45 Detroit Charles Jones, whose role in a high school student's 2010 slaying helped spark the police raid that ended with the officer-involved shooting death of his 7-year-old daughter. [CHECK OUT A SLIDESHOW OF ABANDONED HOUSES ON ONE BLOCK IN DETROIT]I keep calling about these falling-down houses, but the city never comes, she said. It's us but for your ears. When I called the head of the homicide bureau and explained the situation, he told me, Oh yeah? But McNeal messed upshe admits as much. The entire botched nighttime raid was captured on camera by crews from the A&E show The First 48. But police officials have refused to discuss how one got shot in the foot. The killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. I need help. In this shit, a one-year-old played next door, barefoot. Weekley, who retired from the police department in 2019,claimed Mertilla Jones grabbed his rifle, causing it to discharge. The First 48 photographer Allison Howard was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. Behind him stood two rookies. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. Home. WAS IT SO SIMPLE? Scott said a civil suit had been filed and an appeal made to US attorney general Eric Holder to pursue a case for the violation of Aiyanas civil rights. [12], An A&E reality TV television crew was accompanying the police Special Response Team gathering footage for The First 48. He was shot in the head and killed last year. When I was a teenager, my mother owned a struggling little flower shop on the East Side, not far from where Aiyana was killed. Sharptons people called JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, promising to come over to her house after Aiyanas funeral. In 2007, he attacked a cop and tried to take his gun. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. The case had been set to go to trial next week. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. Dante Barry, a 26-year-old organizer and executive director of the Million Hoodies Movement for Justice, said the outcome of the case was disappointing but not surprising. The jury stall resulted in seven voting "not guilty" and five voting "guilty". No one cared much about Detroit or its industrial suburbs until the Dow collapsed, the chief executives of the Big Three went to Washington to grovel, and General Motors declared bankruptcy100 years after its founding. That year, the police said there were 306 homicidesuntil I began digging. Now Detroit has fewer than 800,000 people, is 83 percent black, and is the only American city that has surpassed a million people and dipped back below that threshold. Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, 7, died May 16, 2010 after being shot by an officer during a police raid in Detroit. Owens switched his moped for a Chevy Blazer. Its police disinformation.. AS SUMMER DRAGGED on, the story of Aiyana faded from even the regional press. Coco Jones has lived many lives. The service was held at Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit, a drab cake-shaped megachurch near the Chrysler Freeway. She thanked me for coming and showed me her home, which was clean and well kept. Defense attorney Steve Fishman said prosecutors were courageous by closing the case. They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. Capitol Commission moves toward firearm ban, Biden's student loan relief faces its biggest test yet at the Supreme Court, Jury to decide fate of Detroit cop who shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Second trial begins for Detroit police officer who shot Aiyana Jones, Detroit officer faces misdemeanor charge in Aiyana Jones's death; jury deliberating. Adam Rose/Netflix In addition to traveling, the Chicago-based pair is looking at a potential move once Iyanna, 27, heads back to school to get her master's degree. You might blame it on the urban renewal and interstate highway projects that rammed a freeway down the middle of Paradise Valley, displacing thousands of blacks and packing the Negro tenements tighter still. "I want to say to the entire Jones family, Aiyana's loved ones and friends, how terribly sorry I am for your loss. . So Dr. Schmidt keeps them on layaway, zipped up in body bags as family members wait for a ship to come in that never seems to arrive. What the fuck you looking at?. That's it. Forego a bottle of soda and donate its cost to us for the information you just learned, and feel good about helping to make it available to everyone. Instead of being protected, communities are treated like the enemy, the report found with a disproportionate effect on communities of color. Seven-year-old Aiyana Jones was asleep on the living room sofa in her family's apartment when Detroit police searching for a homicide suspect burst in and an officer's gun went off, fatally . The family of Aiyana Jones, the 7-year-old girl accidentally killed by a Detroit police officer during a raid in 2010, has reached settlement with the city o. One question that lurked behind the scenes of the Aiyana Jones trial was whether the fact that producers from A&E's 'The First 48' played any role in what happened the night Aiyana died. But I cant accept it because they lied about it. It also allowed a man to escape the smoldering city. Police caught him again in November 2009 in possession of a handgun stolen from an Ohio cop. [4], Officer Joseph Weekley was charged in connection with Jones' killing. But if it wasnt for them, the city population would have sunk further than it did. A half-dozen masked officers of the Special Response TeamDetroits version of SWATwere at the door, guns drawn. Her parents say they hope Aiyana will be remembered as more than a symbol of heightened tension in a city in crisis. And during our conversation, he referred to himself in the third personGeoffrey Fieger. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket.. The fire department is little better. He has three boys with Aiyanas mother, Dominika Stanley, and three boys with another woman, whom he had left long ago. Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway address the court on Friday. The man stopped, turned, and pulled a gun. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was seven years old and asleep on a couch with her grandmother when Detroit police raided their east side home looking for a murder suspect in 2010. 3) Weekley's claims that Mertilla Jones grabbed . "[27] His trial was scheduled for October[28] and finally took place in June 2013 but resulted in a deadlocked jury. Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones for just $14.95. Thats five times as many as New York, in a city one-tenth the size. ME Schmidt ruled it a homicide; the police decided it was a suicide. Oh, stay your ass right here, Owens growled. Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy, though his heart did not seem to be in it. Uncategorized. Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. There were even toys on the lawn. Many are as fucked up and sad as Aiyanas. Clutching his juice in one hand and two dollars in the other, JeRean staggered across Mack Avenue and collapsed in the street. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. In Michigan, the designation for homicide is actually 750.316 (PDF), but thats just a mouthful of detail. A small crowd of agitated black people was gathered on the sidewalk. Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley Jones (July 20, 2002 - May 16, 2010), was a seven-year-old girl from the East Side of Detroit, Michigan who was shot and killed during a raid conducted by the Detroit Police Department's Special Response Team on May 16, 2010. Look at the Trending Topics on Twitter. He came here for publicity. Was it death by TV? Forget what you saw, little man. He gives details of the way streets look like at night, and gives a captivating detail of girl's father suffering from insomnia. "[21][22], Mertilla Jones said she reached for her granddaughter when the grenade came through the window, not for the officer's gun, because the flash grenade had set the child on fire. 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