Murder suspect Chauncey Louis Owens, the target of the raid, will be charged. I called the fire department to ask for its statistics. But when you call for help, it seems like no ones there. "We had to do it by paperwork, and they read the letters from my side of the family (during the parole hearing)," Cargill said. 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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. The morning after he was shot, Chaises clippers were mysteriously deposited on his front porch, wiped clean and free of hair. We hope this resolution will provide everyone involved a measure of closure," Detroit Corporation Counsel Lawrence Garcia said in a statement, according to the Detroit News. 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 was formerly a reporter for The Detroit News. But the SWAT team didnt wait. Testifying at the New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church.Stand at the corner of Lillibridge Street and Mack Avenue and walk a mile in each direction from Alter Road to Gratiot Avenue (pronounced Gra-shit). Weekley left the courtroom through a private door. Joneswas retried in 2019 for manslaughter and for being a habitual offender, and was sentenced to 10-20 years, with2,841 days credit for time served. 20072023 Blackpast.org. "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. Maybe because the cameras were rolling, maybe because a Detroit police officer had been murdered two weeks earlier while trying to apprehend a suspect. She got pregnant at 15. We believe today's settlement is fair because it balances the needs of Aiyana's family and our responsibility for the city's finances. [12][17][18] Officer Weekley claimed that the flash grenade subsequently blinded his view of the person on the couch in the living room. And America is buying. Thats five times as many as New York, in a city one-tenth the size. She arrived too late. It is like that all over Detroit, where whole blocks regularly go dark with no warning or any apparent pattern. But it was dark. The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. [12], An A&E reality TV television crew was accompanying the police Special Response Team gathering footage for The First 48. Inexpensive, too! Aiyana was killed when police raided a house to capture a murder suspect. BlackPast.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and our EIN is 26-1625373. [39], On October 3, the judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Weekley. 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. Terms of Service apply. I went to see Fieger to ask him to show me the tape. 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 . A former risk manager for the district was indicted for siphoning off $3 million for personal use. Evans told me then that major crimes were routinely underreported by 20 percent. [19], Police officers, bystanders, and residents of the home disagreed about the events that followed. 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. Jones, 25, a slight man with frizzy braids, wore a dingy T-shirt. In 2010, a 7-year-old girl, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was slaughtered during a police raid of her home in Detroit. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. In Detroit, the official response time of an ambulance to a 911 call is 12 minutes. Police report that they arrested the suspect at the duplex where the . Its about state-sanctioned violence., US police departments are increasingly militarised, finds report, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. As the black population grew, so did black frustration over poor housing and rock-fisted police. The store bell jingled its little requiem as I pulled the door open. Would you take a job at that Chrysler plant if there were any jobs there? I asked one of the men, who was sweating under the weight of the cast iron. Go. He wore a gold bracelet as thick as a gymnasium rope. [42] While Sanders was on the stand, Judge Cynthia Hathaway told her that she (Sanders) was being "disrespectful. Then Huff got killed. Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway address the court on Friday. The city filled with people from all over the world: Arabs, Appalachians, Poles, African Americans, all in their separate neighborhoods surrounding the factories. In this shit, a one-year-old played next door, barefoot. Lil James brought along a .357 Magnumat the behest of Jones, Detective Williams testified, because Jones was afraid someone would try to steal his diamond Cartier glasses.. Even Time bought a house on the East Side last year for $99,000. Gibson bonded out last January and actually showed up for his trial in circuit court on February 17. Al Sharpton spoke her eulogy. About 40 kids were milling around in front of the soft-serve window. It went straight through the childs head. Then she introduced me to her 14-year-old son DeErion, whose remains sat in an urn on the mantel. [65][unreliable source?] A small donation would help us keep this available to all. First published on January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM. 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 . But the people of Lillibridge Street still look like theyve been picked up by their hair and dropped from the rooftop. The bullet hit a child. Family: 7-year-old shot by police was asleep. Nevertheless, Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans issued a statement May 18. 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. 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. "(Jones') parole guideline score placed him in the high probability of parole range," Gautz said in an email. They were wondering if the Rust Belt cancer had metastasized and was creeping to Los Angeles and London and Barcelona. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? "[60], In September 2013, J. Cole published a music video dedicated to Jones for his song Crooked Smile, featuring TLC on YouTube. 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. 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. 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. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. I lingered a moment, backing out while taking it in: the bracelet, the liquor, the blood, the gun, the Ho-Hos, the cheapness of it all. He gives details of the way streets look like at night, and gives a captivating detail of girl's father suffering from insomnia. If such a thing could be true, Chaises neighborhood is worse than JeReans. His eyes and mouth were open and held that milky expression of a drunk who has fallen asleep with his eyes open. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley in court in Detroit, Mich. on June 18, 2013 during his first trial. Detroit grew restless. I saw him in the face of my sister, who died a violent death in a filthy section of Detroit a decade ago. And during our conversation, he referred to himself in the third personGeoffrey Fieger. Detroit. Young Municipal Center in Detroit. The number was actually 375. The bullet struck Aiyana killing her. 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. And now that the papers do cover Detroit, boosters complain about a lack of balance. Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones for just $14.95. 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. Officials said Gibson ran out the front of the house. Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. Barry, who has been active in demonstrations against police violence and whose organization has mounted a formal campaign to demilitarize the police, said there were two separate justice systems in the US. Until there wasnt. Dr. Carl Schmidt is the chief medical examiner there. What happened after that is a matter of conjecture, as Detroit officials have had problems getting their stories straight. "It bothers them," she said. There were even toys on the lawn. It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder. 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. 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. [49], Aiyana Jones' funeral was held in the Second Ebenezer Church on May 22, 2010 in Detroit. Folks want to blame Aiyana's "crime ridden" neighborhood for her death. 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. And there are. Jones broke down during testimony and had to be escorted out amid sobbing after addressing Weekley who was also in the courtroom directly. [34][35], Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. 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 . Owens switched his moped for a Chevy Blazer. Do you find this information helpful? The family of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was murdered by Detroit police more than two years ago, is still waiting for justice. The smell was beastly. I can accept the shooting was a mistake, Jones said about his daughters death as a bleary-eyed Stanley sat motionless next to him. The police were . 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 psychopathology of growing up in Detroit, he said. In a photograph from May 2010, Dominika Stanley and Charles Jones hold a picture of their daughter, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in a Detroit courtroom. As for the struggles of a generation of living people, the murder of a hundred children, they ask me: Whats new in that?. In October 2011, he was charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. "She's not a scapegoat. [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. I am sick. 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. Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, 7, died May 16, 2010 after being shot by an officer during a police raid in Detroit. Inside the lower unit of a duplex halfway down the gloomy street, Charles Jones, 25, was pacing, unable to sleep. That factory closed in 1956 and was left to rot, pulling down the East Side, which pulled down the city. what happened to aiyana jones. The house on the other side is in much the same state. Fieger responded by saying he does not have the supposed video,[57] which he claims was made by the A&E Network reality show The First 48. It was unlocked. [12], Owens was later found guilty of Blake's murder. By parental neglect? The programs six-minute sizzle reel begins with Evans dressed in full battle gear in front of the shattered Michigan Central Rail Depot, cradling a semiautomatic rifle and declaring that he would do whatever it takes to take back the streets of Detroit. The walls are covered with photographs of Geoffrey Fieger. I stared through the windshield at the little boy in the diaper playing amid the ruins, reached over, and switched it off. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Weve got nothing but bullet fragments., A neighbor who tends the lawn in front of the dope house out of respect to Huff wonders why so many cops came in the first place, given that the police hardly come around at all, much less that many cops that fast on a home break-in.. The frightened black man attempted to save himself. A thousand people attended, as did the predictable plump of media. It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder suspect after throwing a flash grenade to confuse anyone inside. 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. I think its evil. Detroit demolishes only 500 homes a year, thanks to concerns over lawsuits and environmental hazards, as well as lack of funds and ineptitude. As Officer Weekley wept on the sidewalk, Aiyana was rushed to the trauma table, where she was pronounced dead. You might say that the homicide of Aiyana is the natural conclusion to the disease from which she suffered, Schmidt told me. You might blame Coleman Youngthe citys first black mayorand his culture of cronyism. 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. Of course I would. "But I can tell you this: If anyone is looking for a scapegoat for justice, then you've got one here as owner, coach and quarterback. That house, too, is on the citys East Side, a nondescript brick duplex with a crumbling garage whose driveway funnels into busy Schoenherr Road. A slender, pimply faced kid, JeRean was not an intimidating figure. Clutching his juice in one hand and two dollars in the other, JeRean staggered across Mack Avenue and collapsed in the street. Behind him stood two rookies. By wit and will, he managed to make it through. Stanley suddenly emerged from her stupor: Whats that got to do with it? she hissed. The judge said she's willing to be the "scapegoat" if critics don't like the result. Bobb did uncover graft and fraud and waste, however. [36] Aiyana's case would be the longest presiding case that Hathaway had in more than 20 years of being on the bench. 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. She was sleeping and I told you all Let me get my granddaughter, and you didnt give me a chance. No Glue or Lace Hiring Black Folks. Tens of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands. The suspect fingered for Blakes murder, Chauncey Owens, lived in the upstairs flat, with Charles Jones sister. Known as Half-Day Hathaway, the judge was removed from the bench for six months by the Michigan Supreme Court a decade ago for, among other things, adjourning trials to sneak away on vacation. In Detroit, a new car costs more than the average house. A spokesman for the A &E program "The First 48" tells ABC News they had a camera crew along with the Detroit police when Aiyanna Jones was shot and killed during the execution of a search warrant to find a man wanted in connection with a murder. Forget about it. He won't be in the field. Like so many across the country, shes being evicted with no job and no place to go. McNeal wondered how she was going to pay the $3,000 for her sons funeral. Louis Miriani, the last Republican mayor of Detroit, who served from 1957 to 1962, was sent to federal prison for tax evasion when he couldnt explain how he made nearly a quarter of a million dollars on a reported salary of only $25,000. He computerized daily crime statistics, created a mobile strike force commanded by young and educated go-getters, and dispatched cops to crime hot spots. He gave her $800 for funeral costs. Its easy in our anger, our rage, to just vent and scream. [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". The blood was congealing into a pancake on the dirty linoleum. He, too, was about to graduate from Southeastern High. Aiyana was severely burned and then shot in the head and neck by an unidentified police officer standing on the porch. The family of a 7-year-old girl who was fatally shot during a May 2010 police raid is suing the Detroit officer involved in the incident, Detroit News reports.. Inside, splayed on the floor underneath the rack of snack cakes near the register, was a black man in a pool of blood. In 2019, Jones' family agreed to an $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement against the city of Detroit in connection with the raid. Today, reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget, allows us to dig deep on stories that matter, and lets us keep our reporting free for everyone. I need help. Im stuck. 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, Geoffrey Fieger said. Im alive. 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