[41] The posse allegedly included Aiyanas father, Charles C.J. Jones. He didn't elaborate. Folks want to blame Aiyana's "crime ridden" neighborhood for her death. I can accept the shooting was a mistake, Jones said about his daughters death as a bleary-eyed Stanley sat motionless next to him. [41][44][45][46] Because of Mertilla Jones's outburst, the judge stopped the trial until September 29. Like so many across the country, shes being evicted with no job and no place to go. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley is accused of fatally shooting Aiyana during the raid that targeted a murder suspect. 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. On January 28, 2015, the remaining charge on Weekley, a misdemeanor for careless discharge of a firearm causing death, was dismissed. Detroit grew restless. ReverendAl Sharpton gave the eulogy. The Detroit Police Department was in search of a murderer, and mistakenly raided Aiyana's home. The number was actually 375. Three officers shot, standoff follows in Kansas City, Mo., police say, Vanessa Bryant, family settles claims over Kobe crash site photos for $28.5M. His retrial began in September 2014. So is the house across the street. Casei Jones, 32, and her four children Cameron Bowers, 10, Preston Bowers, 5, Mercalli Jones, 2, and Aiyana Jones, 1, were missing for almost a month. I am sick. Not to worry: The city had its own welfare system, decades before Lyndon Johnsons Great Society. AIYANA WAS LAID TO REST six days after her killing. When we look at accountability and an institution that was not designed for black people and that was not designed in the interest of black people, he says, how do you find justice in an already unjust system?. [12] Charles Jones, Aiyana's father, wore a black suit, pink tie and pink handkerchief in remembrance of his daughter as pink was her favorite color. The red halo around his skull gave the scene a feeling of serenity. In this way, what happened to J Cole's daughter? By 1958, 20 percent of the Detroit workforce was jobless. 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 . The graduation rate for Detroit schoolkids hovers around 35 percent (PDF). So bad is it for Detroits children that Education Secretary Arne Duncan said last year, I lose sleep over that one.. [16], Aiyana Jones was the daughter of Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley. Defense attorney Steve Fishman said prosecutors were courageous by closing the case. AP Photo/The Detroit News, John T. 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Cole dedicates video to dead 7-year-old girl", "J. Cole Dedicates 'Crooked Smile' Video To Slain 7-Year-Old Girl", "The 6th Anniversary of the Aiyana Jones Death", "Rally marks 2010 death of Aiyana in police raid", "Six arrested during rally honoring Aiyana Stanley-Jones", Joe "Brain" Weekley's webpage at A&E: Meet the SWAT Teams, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Killing_of_Aiyana_Jones&oldid=1139956467, This page was last edited on 17 February 2023, at 18:19. It just goes on, she said. Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, 7, died May 16, 2010 after being shot by an officer during a police raid in Detroit. [12], Owens was later found guilty of Blake's murder. Why you looking at me? said Owens, getting off the moped. Southeasterns motto is Age Quod Agis: Attend to Your Business. And JeRean did. 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. It is like that all over Detroit, where whole blocks regularly go dark with no warning or any apparent pattern. God, dont take my baby.. I asked Fieger if Charles Jones should accept some culpability in his daughters death, considering his alleged role in JeReans murder, the stolen cars found in his backyard, and the fact that his daughter slept on the couch next to an unlocked door. On a hot afternoon around one Mothers Day, I was working in the back greenhouse. AP Photo Charles Jones, the father of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was killed early Sunday in Detroit, holds a photo of Aiyana in attorney Geoffrey Fieger's office in Southfield, Mich., Tuesday . It's been a year since 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley Joneswas killed by members of a Detroit Special Response team. Murder suspect Chauncey Louis Owens, the target of the raid, will be charged. Weekley, 38, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death, a misdemeanor in the death of Aiyana. [42] While Sanders was on the stand, Judge Cynthia Hathaway told her that she (Sanders) was being "disrespectful. The house next door to his is rubble smelling of burnt pine, pissed on by the spray cans of the East Warren Crips. The trial of a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a seven-year-old girl began today.Officer Joseph Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones during . Seconds after Aiyana's blanket caught fire, the SWAT team stormed through the door, and mistakenly shot Aiyana through the neck, killing her. Outside court, a spokesman for Aiyana's family criticized the judge for her comments. By civic malfeasance? Then, realizing that sounded implausible, they said shed brushed the gun as she ran past the door. Assistant prosecutor Rob Moran told the judge that the misdemeanor was being dropped in the "best interests of justice." The environment didnt affect us none, Jones said. In fact, there are no chain grocery stores in all of Detroit. It would be easy to lay the blame on McNeal for the circumstances in which she raised her sons. Plus, grenades are rarely used when rounding up suspects, even murder suspects. To me, thats like writing about the surf conditions in the Gaza Strip. Many are as fucked up and sad as Aiyanas. Why would anyone move a gunshot victim, much less toss him in a car? The man stopped, turned, and pulled a gun. I need help. [52], A civil rights lawsuit questioned Weekley's account of the incident, claiming the grenade had gone through the window and struck Aiyana. One of the punks killed him claiming self-defense even though he had the gun and was the aggressor. The story rated three paragraphs in the daily papers, and the media never followed up. They went hog wild. The city reached a peak population of 1.9 million people in the 1950s, and it was 83 percent white. On October 10, the second trial ended in another mistrial. Aiyana Jones, Up Closed, https://upclosed.com/people/aiyana-monay-stanley-jones/; Aiyana Jones, Mother Jones, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/09/aiyana-stanley-jones-detroit/; Aiyana Jones, Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/17/aiyana-stanley-jones-joseph-weekley-trial_n_5824684.html; CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aiyana-stanley-jones-case-final-charge-dropped-against-detroit-cop-in-fatal-raid/. The Jones family also sued Weekley and the Detroit Police Department in 2015. "I want to say to the entire Jones family, Aiyana's loved ones and friends, how terribly sorry I am for your loss. Paramedics say it is routinely much longer. If such a thing could be true, Chaises neighborhood is worse than JeReans. I get no sleep. WAS IT SO SIMPLE? Final charges against Joseph Weekley, a police officer who shot dead a 7-year-old girl, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in Detroit in May 2010, were dismissed on Friday, leaving a family bereft and raising serious concern among national groups over an increasingly militarized police force. But our ammos so bad, we cant do ballistics testing. Evans driver dropped him with a single shot. Aiyana was buried in a white casket which was driven to her grave site by a horse-drawn carriage. Home. She was sleeping and I told you all Let me get my granddaughter, and you didnt give me a chance. The little girl in the video was based on a true story, according to MTV.com. [12][17][18] Officer Weekley claimed that the flash grenade subsequently blinded his view of the person on the couch in the living room. She denied grabbing the weapon. January 7, 2022 . Other auto plants sprang up on the East Side: Packard, Studebaker, Chryslers Dodge Main. "It bothers them," she said. 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. Do you find this information helpful? That's it. 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley Jones died from bullet wound during the raid Police say officer's weapon fired after an encounter with an adult in the house (CNN) -- An attorney representing the. Her grandmother, Mertilla Jones, was close by. War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing. People my mothers age like to tell me about Detroits good old days of soda fountains and shopping markets and lazy Saturday night drives. Owens switched his moped for a Chevy Blazer. This was the first raid on a house since his death. [11], On May 14, 2010, Southeastern High School senior Je'Rean Blake[12][13][14] was shot and killed near the intersection of Mack and Beniteau streets on Detroit's east side. DETROITS EAST SIDE is now the poorest, most violent quarter of Americas poorest, most violent big city. A woman was in his car, the motor running. Aiyana Jones' step aunt Kayia White and step mom Dominique Simpson, right, sit on the front porch next to a blood spattered sofa in Detroit on . 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 . The bullet hit a child. Two years later he was sentenced to an additional 12 months for violating . Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. However, the judge also said if Mertilla Jones and the other relatives continued to have outbursts on the stand, then she would declare a mistrial. I was allowed to meet with Charles Jones the following morning at Fiegers office, but with the caveat that I could only ask him questions about the evening his daughter was killed. He failed to report. The police were searching for a murder suspect thought to be in the Jones home. Even if you check the TT's of each city Aiyana is nowhere to . "They said he'll be on parole until 2030, and he or his family can't be around my family. A fresh trial was scheduled for December 2013,[29] but actually began in September 2014. 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. Its now just another abandoned house in Detroit.. A good kid who showed neighborhood children how to work electric clippers, his dream was to open a barbershop. The sad and confusing circumstances of the murders of JeRean Blake and Officer Huff, both black, robbed Sharpton of some of his customary indignation. Take for instance the death of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was shot and killed during a police raid at their Detroit home. JEREAN BLAKE NOBLES was one of the rare black males in Detroit who made it (PDF) through high school. [4], Officer Joseph Weekley was charged in connection with Jones' killing. [2], Weekley was a member of Detroit's SWAT team and a frequent subject on the A&E Network (A&E), whose film crews were also filming the investigation for the documentary TV series The First 48. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. The presence of children in the house was known. But I cant accept it because they lied about it. The landlord of the duplex, Edward Taylor, let me into the Jones apartment. Weekley, who retired from the police department in 2019,claimed Mertilla Jones grabbed his rifle, causing it to discharge. He caught a lunch lady stealing the childrens milk money. The Rev. Social media and keyword searches can tell much about the popularity and worth of a topic. Another cruiser with two officers responded as well. A seven-year-old Black girl was fatally during a raid in Detroit, Michigan Police Department in 2010. Inexpensive, too! People are awake. He also told me that perhaps 50 percent of Detroits drivers were operating without a license or insurance. Final charges against Joseph Weekley, a police officer who shot dead a 7-year-old girl, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in Detroit in May 2010, were dismissed on Friday, leaving a family bereft and. On October 4, 2011, a Wayne County grand jury indicted Officer Joseph Weekley for involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. As Officer Weekley wept on the sidewalk, Aiyana was rushed to the trauma table, where she was pronounced dead. 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.". Forbidden by restrictive real estate covenants and racist custom, the blacks were mostly restricted to Paradise Valley, which ran the length of Woodward Avenue. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. Then came the homicide-by-cop of little Aiyana. One man, who wanted to turn himself in for a murder, gave up trying to call the Detroit police; he drove to Ohio and turned himself in there. 91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 Flint. Some 45,000 abandoned houses pock Detroit. The fire department is little better. Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones was asleep on the sofa when a police SWAT team hurled a flash-bang grenade into the apartment and smashed the front door down. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was sleeping in her home on the east side of Detroit on the night of May 16, 2010, when officers barged into the house. Jones, too, later became a person of interest in JeReans murderhe allegedly went along for the ridebut Jones denies it, and hes lawyered up and moved to the suburbs. [39][40], On the second day of trial, September 24, LaKrystal Sanders, who lived on the upper floor of the house where Aiyana was killed, testified. It was all for the cameras. Its always like that. As our Detroit reporter, she is helping us expand our coverage of the economy, politics, and culture in and around the city of Detroit. I called the fire department to ask for its statistics. And now that the papers do cover Detroit, boosters complain about a lack of balance. The killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. Once at Aiyanas graveside, Charles Jones released a dove. "It's irking me so bad," Cargill said. In Detroit, the official response time of an ambulance to a 911 call is 12 minutes. January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM Charlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, filmmaker, and multimedia reporter. Jones was born on July 20, 2002, to Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley in Detroit, Michigan. 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. McNeal wondered how she was going to pay the $3,000 for her sons funeral. Detroit Charles Jones,whose role in ahigh school student's 2010 slayinghelped spark thepolice raid that ended with the officer-involved shooting death of his 7-year-old daughter Aiyana Stanley-Jones, has been granted parole. The lawsuit asserts that police were outside of the home where they "blindly fired random shots," and one of the bullets fatally struck the 7-year-old child in the neck. Her body was transferred to the Wayne County morgue. Then they said he jumped out a back window. Aiyana Jones was 7 when she was killed in a police raid. In October, judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed a charge of involuntary manslaughter, citing a lack of evidence. The silent suffering.. IT WAS JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on the morning of May 16 and the neighbors say the streetlights were out on Lillibridge Street. A small donation would help us keep this available to all. Detroit, MI The family of Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a 7-year old girl shot and killed by a Detroit police officer, has received an $8.25 million settlement almost 9 years after the tragic incident. On his desk is a bronze bust of Geoffrey Fieger. But even he couldnt stanch the tsunami of red ink; the deficit ballooned more than $140 million under his guidance. The auto industry allowed for sprawl. Fugitive in $18 million COVID fraud scheme extradited to U.S. ended without verdicts on a charge of reckless use of a gun. The family of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Detroit police officers, following a raid that led to the death of the child. [2], After a one-year internal and federal investigation, on October 4, 2011, a grand jury indicted Weekley on involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. [15], The building was a duplex; Owens's girlfriend LaKrysta Sanders lived in the upstairs apartment, while her mother and Aiyana Jones' grandmother, Mertilla Jones, lived in the downstairs apartment. This is not about policing, he said. On the morning of May 16, a Detroit police officer fatally shot 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones in the throat during a police raid on her home. Its easy in our anger, our rage, to just vent and scream. I began to get calls from reporters around the world wondering what Detroit was like, what was happening here. Listen on Apple Podcasts. Were here today not to find blame, but to find out how we never have to come here again, said Sharpton, standing in the grand pulpit. [6][7][8] The ACLU report found that only 7% of Swat raids were in hostage or active shooter situations situations that justify such extreme responses and 79% were effectuating search warrants, situations that do not call for Swat interventions. Little Aiyana's death is heartbreaking! There are no fewer than two TV dramas, two documentaries, and three reality programs being filmed here. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was 7 years old when she was killed by a single bullet to the head. The manslaughter trial was declared a mistrial. He was charged twice with involuntary manslaughter, but both cases ended in mistrials. They had even kept Aiyana in her old school, Trix Elementary, because it was something consistent in her life, a clean and safe school in a city with too few. Which is what he was doing at this house, authorities contend, when he put three bullets in Officer Huffs face. . Not all of us are blessed.. Jones pleaded guilty tosecond-degree murder and was sentenced to40-60 years, although in 2017 the Michigan Court of Appeals granted him a new trial. Someone radioed in, and more police arrivedbut the official story of what happened that night has changed repeatedly. It was a sweatbox, and I went across the street to the liquor store for a soda pop. Jones and two other men known as Lil James and Dirt rode along for JeReans ass-whipping. The smell was beastly. A reality TV crew recorded the scene from the street. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Add in the fact that half the police precincts were closed in 2005 for budgetary reasons, and the crime lab was closed two years ago due to ineptitude, and it might explain why five of the nine members of the city council carry a firearm. If he didn't give him the gun, they feel like their brother would still be alive, and Aiyana would still be alive.". Terms of Service apply. Two days later, a crew from the Detroit Police Special Response Team raided Jones' house on Lillibridge Street, blocks from the store. [32][33] Allison Howard was sentenced to two years of probation in July 2013, and fined $2,000. Sheffield came to see Cargill. But it was dark. But police officials have refused to discuss how one got shot in the foot. The police have been working under a federal consent decree since a 2003 investigation found that detectives were locking up murder witnesses for days on end, without access to a lawyer, until they coughed up a name. Young Municipal Center in Detroit. Two trials against Officer Joseph Weekley ended without verdicts on a charge of reckless use of a gun. There are two elementary schools in the area, both in desperate need of a lawnmower and a can of paint. She looked at her barefoot grandson playing in the wreckage of the dwelling next door and wondered if he would make it to manhood. They want to blame her parents and her aunt who is engaged to the murder suspect. The whole country knew it, and the whole country laughed. She had already cleared a space on the other end of the mantel for Chaises urn. 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. The streetlights still go on and off. I saw him in the face of my sisters daughter, who died from a heroin overdose in a suburban basement near the interstate, weeks after I moved back to Michigan with my wife to raise our daughter and take a job with the Detroit News. All rights reserved. The day Barrens cleaned out his desk, a burglar cleaned out Barrens house. Thats a hell of a pair of bookends, I offered. When I called the head of the homicide bureau and explained the situation, he told me, Oh yeah? When I moved back to Detroit two years ago, I profiled a firehouse on the East Side. She said she made no contact with any officers. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. JeReans mother drove as he gurgled in the backseat. They drove her there every morning, five miles. They were looking for a murder suspect. 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