The case had been set to go to trial next week. But the grandmother says she was lying on the far side of the couch, away from the door. Weekley, who retired from the police department in 2019,claimed Mertilla Jones grabbed his rifle, causing it to discharge. Then, realizing that sounded implausible, they said shed brushed the gun as she ran past the door. You might point to the trade agreements of the Clinton years, which allowed American manufacturers to leave the country by the back door. / AP. I need help. The flower shop is just a pile of bricks now, but despite what the Arab told me, I did not forget what I saw. The crumbling houses still crumble. 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. It went straight through the childs head. January 7, 2022 . The killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. 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 . 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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. Two days later, on May 16, police arrived at the house where Aiyana Jones lived, hoping to find Owens. The walls are covered with photographs of Geoffrey Fieger. She said she made no contact with any officers. In Michigan, the designation for homicide is actually 750.316 (PDF), but thats just a mouthful of detail. [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. But he doesnt return my calls. . Soon, the Motor Citys population surpassed that of Boston and Baltimore, old East Coast port cities founded on maritime shipping when the world moved by boat. 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. Someone radioed in, and more police arrivedbut the official story of what happened that night has changed repeatedly. Police officers came from Canada and across Michigan. Behind him stood two rookies. Hes from New York. Its too late.. In an echo of deaths at police hands that rocked the US last year, including those of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York, Officer Weekley is white and Stanley-Jones was black. Juries twice failed to reach a verdict in Weekleys case, first in June 2013 and then in October 2014. There was no note. The psychopathology of growing up in Detroit, he said. 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 . The police were searching for a murder suspect thought to be in the Jones home. 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. [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'. 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. In the case of the night Aiyana was killed, many feel the situation did not call for a military-style bust at midnight. Robert Bobb was hired in 2009 as the emergency financial manager and given sweeping powers to balance the books. What the fuck do you think? he said. Paramedics say it is routinely much longer. Inexplicably, its carcass still stands and burns incessantly. I get no sleep. Not all of us are blessed.. Forget about it. 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. The prisoner has not incurred any serious misconducts while in prison. 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?. That tape never aired, but it was used as evidence in Weekleys two trials for Aiyanas death. My daughter got love, honor, and respect. [39], On October 3, the judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Weekley. He has three boys with Aiyanas mother, Dominika Stanley, and three boys with another woman, whom he had left long ago. I saw the tape and wrote about its existence after the killing of Aiyana, but the story went nowhere until two months later, when someone in City Hall leaked a copy to the local ABC affiliate. One year after a Detroit police assault team shot 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones to death in her home while A&E's "First 48" TV show was filming, neither Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy nor U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has brought charges against those responsible. [51] She was buried on the grounds. In Detroit, the official response time of an ambulance to a 911 call is 12 minutes. Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. [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. He caught a lunch lady stealing the childrens milk money. "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. Was Detroit an outlier or an epicenter? The kids are dropping like fliesespecially young black malesand hes got nothing but useless words.. We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. Lord Jesus, I ain't never seen nothing like that in my life."--Mertilla Jones, Aiyana's grandmother. This could be a precedent setting case if the Court . Oh, stay your ass right here, Owens growled. His work has appeared in Time, Life, and Newsweek. Furthermore, the police department and unnamed supervisors of the Special Response Team in the city of Detroit were being sued for violating the civil rights of Aiyana Jones through their training and policy procedure. He computerized daily crime statistics, created a mobile strike force commanded by young and educated go-getters, and dispatched cops to crime hot spots. The landlord of the duplex, Edward Taylor, let me into the Jones apartment. Jones wasgiven a "contingency parole" after completing required prison programs, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz said Monday. They made it to the trauma ward, where JeRean was pronounced dead. Inside, splayed on the floor underneath the rack of snack cakes near the register, was a black man in a pool of blood. The change to "Murder of Aiyana Jones" may have been disputed for good reason, but the current one is both neutral and standard (see Death of Ian Tomlinson). Cargill said because of COVID-19 restrictions, she was unable to attend Jones' parole hearings to contest his release. The morning after he was shot, Chaises clippers were mysteriously deposited on his front porch, wiped clean and free of hair. Inexpensive, too! Police Chief James Craig stated, "He'll be in a limited duty capacity. Which is what he was doing at this house, authorities contend, when he put three bullets in Officer Huffs face. [25], Chauncey Owens, the suspect who the raid was intended to apprehend and boyfriend of Aiyana's aunt LaKrystal Sanders,[26] was found in the upper-floor apartment of the duplex and surrendered without incident. Can she be blamed for that? As for the struggles of a generation of living people, the murder of a hundred children, they ask me: Whats new in that?. 20072023 Blackpast.org. And TV may have needed some pyrotechnics. Both trials ended with hung juries. Then eight, then eleven. Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she slept on a couch in a Detroit home in 2010. You might say that the homicide of Aiyana is the natural conclusion to the disease from which she suffered, Schmidt told me. Like so many across the country, shes being evicted with no job and no place to go. [5] And during our conversation, he referred to himself in the third personGeoffrey Fieger. Moreover, the Detroit public school system is the worst performer in the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests, with nearly 80 percent of eighth-graders unable to do basic math. Henry Ford built his first automobile assembly-line plant in Highland Park in 1908 on the east side of Woodward Avenue, the thoroughfare that divides the east of Detroit from the west. The president of the school board, Otis Mathis, recently admitted that he had only rudimentary writing skills shortly before being forced to resign for fondling himself during a meeting with the school superintendent. The Jones family contends that the shot that killed Aiyana was fired from outside the house, and that the police eventually caught the homicide suspect, Chauncey L. Owens, at a different address . Jones was born on July 20, 2002, to Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley in Detroit. The city of Detroit has settled a lawsuit with the family of a girl shot and killed by a Detroit police officer nine years ago. I have . Home. By parental neglect? It also allowed a man to escape the smoldering city. Nor is corruption a black or liberal thing. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was 7 years old when she was killed by a single bullet to the head. Sheffield came to see Cargill. Soon, the air was the color of a filthy dishrag. Outside court, a spokesman for Aiyana's family criticized the judge for her comments. But is she responsible for police officers with broken computers in their squad cars, firefighters with holes in their boots, ambulances that arrive late, a city that cant keep its lights on and leaves its vacant buildings to the arsonists match, a state government that allows corpses to stack up in the morgue, multinational corporations that move away and leave poisoned fields behind, judges who let violent criminals walk the streets, school stewards who steal the childrens milk money, elected officials who loot the city, automobile executives who couldnt manage a grocery store, or Wall Street grifters who destroyed the economy and left the nations children with a burden of debt? 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 . When I was a teenager, my mother owned a struggling little flower shop on the East Side, not far from where Aiyana was killed. But there is no money; the struggling school system has a $363 million deficit. Chief Evans might have survived it all, had he, too, not been drawn to the lights of Hollywood. Mother Jones was founded as a nonprofit in 1976 because we knew corporations and billionaires wouldn't fund the type of hard-hitting journalism we set out to do. The gimmick was to have its reporters live there and chronicle the decline of the Motor City for one year. It was 12:40 am on Sunday, May 16, 2010. 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. On January 28, 2015, a prosecutor cleared Weekley of the last remaining charge against him, ensuring there would not be a third trial. A total, unfortunate fuck-up.. 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 . Evans brought a refreshing honesty to a department plagued by ineptitude and secrecy. A bunch of lazy, uneducated blue-collar incompetents. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. I stared through the windshield at the little boy in the diaper playing amid the ruins, reached over, and switched it off. The city filled with people from all over the world: Arabs, Appalachians, Poles, African Americans, all in their separate neighborhoods surrounding the factories. 1894 shipwreck found in Lake Huron, confirming "powerful, tragic story", Garland to face Congress amid ongoing special counsel investigations, FBI chief says agency feels pandemic likely started with Chinese lab leak. Now, Jones family attorney Geoffrey Fieger and the city of Detroit confirm theyve settled the case for $8.25 million. First published on January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM. Charlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, filmmaker, and multimedia reporter. That factory closed in 1956 and was left to rot, pulling down the East Side, which pulled down the city. He had been married eight years and had three daughters and a stepson. It was a sweatbox, and I went across the street to the liquor store for a soda pop. Outside, Television was watching them. [12] Weekley had been featured on another A&E police reality show, Detroit SWAT. According to the police, Officer Joseph Weekley was the first police officer to enter the home. 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. The settlement was finalized just days prior to the scheduled civil trial. "(Jones') parole guideline score placed him in the high probability of parole range," Gautz said in an email. 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. The story smelled to high heaven from the beginning. Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones for just $14.95. You know? It would also help inspire the creation of the Black Lives Matter Movementthree years later. A few minutes after that, JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, arrived and got behind the wheel of the car that friends had dragged him into. As far-fetched as what happened to the Joneses may sound, they are not . Many are as fucked up and sad as Aiyanas. They were restless and agitated and pulled at the collars of dress blues that didnt seem to fit. Your donation is fully tax-deductible. Social media and keyword searches can tell much about the popularity and worth of a topic. 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. She later explained that she reached for her granddaughter when the grenade came through the window and that is what caused her to hit the officers gun. The environment got nothing to do with kids.. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. Do you find this information helpful? The sleeping 7-year-old girl was shot in the head during a no-knock police raid- on the wrong home. It feels like there aint no love no more.. (And that statistic is true; I checked.). Even if you check the TT's of each city Aiyana is nowhere to . Wage growth is slowing. City of Detroit Corporation CounselLawrence Garciahas treated the family with utter disrespect and disdain. That was before he canceled a planned press conference to discuss the upcoming case. It just goes on, she said. The day I visited, a Hollywood starlet (PDF) was tailing the doctor, studying for her role as the medical examiner in ABCs new Detroit-based murder drama Detroit 1-8-7. There were even toys on the lawn. 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. Devils Night is no longer the big deal it used to be, topping out last year at around 65 arsons. The entire botched nighttime raid was captured on camera by crews from the A&E show The First 48. Aiyana's mother Dominika Stanley, and paternal grandmother Mertilla testified, and both had "emotional outbursts." People involved. A woman was in his car, the motor running. The posse allegedly included Aiyanas father, Charles C.J. Jones. If youre a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.. Weekley, 38, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death, a misdemeanor in the death of Aiyana. Stanley suddenly emerged from her stupor: Whats that got to do with it? she hissed. A minute later, a friend took the two dollars as a keepsake. I was thinking that, she said with tears. Within seconds, Weekleyfired hisMP5 rifle, killingAiyana, who was sleeping on the living room couch with her grandmother Mertilla Jones. Another cruiser with two officers responded as well. They were looking for a murder suspect. He, too, was about to graduate from Southeastern High. AP Photo/The Detroit News, John T. Greilick, How Alaska became one of fentanyl's deadliest frontiers, Pennsylvania police seized gloves, flashlight from home of Idaho murders suspect, Where things stand in the Alex Murdaugh double murder trial. He assigned the SWAT team the job of rounding up murder suspects, a task that had previously been done by detectives. A fresh trial was scheduled for December 2013,[29] but actually began in September 2014. At its peak popularity, 810 fires were set in a three-day span. While a thousand people mourned the tragic death of Aiyana, the body of JeRean Blake Nobles sat in a refrigerator at a local funeral parlor; his mother was too poor to bury him herself and too respectful to bury him until after the little girls funeral, anyhow. 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 SWAT team tried the steel door to the building. Sharpton left and the Rev. And there are. These Wigs Install in Seconds. 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. 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