The service was held at Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit, a drab cake-shaped megachurch near the Chrysler Freeway. The raid happened early Sunday morning. Two days later, a crew from the Detroit Police Special Response Team raided Jones' house on Lillibridge Street, blocks from the store. The bullet struck Aiyana killing her. A former risk manager for the district was indicted for siphoning off $3 million for personal use. It was unlocked. As far-fetched as what happened to the Joneses may sound, they are not . As Officer Weekley wept on the sidewalk, Aiyana was rushed to the trauma table, where she was pronounced dead. The environment didnt affect us none, Jones said. The fire department is little better. You might say that the homicide of Aiyana is the natural conclusion to the disease from which she suffered, Schmidt told me. (And that statistic is true; I checked.). He was charged twice with involuntary manslaughter, but both cases ended in mistrials. People taking advanage of my benevolence. Today75 years after the beavers disappeared from the Detroit RiverDetroitism means something completely different. 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. Coco Jones has lived many lives. On May 14, 2010, JeRean Blake, a senior at Southeastern High School of Technology and Law was shot and killed near an intersection on Detroits east side. Short answer: Yesand no. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and I think its abominable. The water in the Detroit River was so bad, it was said you could bottle it and sell it as poison. She was only a baby, man. According to reports, seconds after entering the house, Weekley fired the fatal shot. His mothers house on Lillibridge, he said, was just supposed to be a way station to better things. The sad and confusing circumstances of the murders of JeRean Blake and Officer Huff, both black, robbed Sharpton of some of his customary indignation. [12] Weekley had been featured on another A&E police reality show, Detroit SWAT. The conceit of the show is that homicide detectives have 48 hours to crack a murder case before the trail goes cold. It is like that all over Detroit, where whole blocks regularly go dark with no warning or any apparent pattern. Detroit VA hospital harmed patients, altered records, investigation reveals, $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. 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. Nevertheless, Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans issued a statement May 18. [51] She was buried on the grounds. For community members and advocates, the bigger question is why a Swat team was deployed in the first place. David Corn, Noah Lanard, and Dan Friedman. Was it death by TV? Owens sped two blocks back to Lillibridge and gathered up a posse, according to his statement to the police. Plus, grenades are rarely used when rounding up suspects, even murder suspects. Paramedics say it is routinely much longer. The car made Detroit, and the car unmade Detroit. I think its evil. The flower shop is just a pile of bricks now, but despite what the Arab told me, I did not forget what I saw. [12] Owens was in the upstairs apartment. The flashbacks. Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy, though his heart did not seem to be in it. It's now Monday at 10:30pm. As recently as this week, Fieger said in a press release, thatto date, theCity of Detroithas refused to participate in good faith in any resolution regarding Aiyana's death and continue to deny the family justice. You might blame Coleman Youngthe citys first black mayorand his culture of cronyism. Social media and keyword searches can tell much about the popularity and worth of a topic. It's hurting me. The bullet hit a child. 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. I forgive him, but I don't forget what he did.". [66] On July 20, 2016 Detroit police arrested six unknown individuals for chaining themselves to a precinct of the Detroit Police Department, their protest honoring Jones. Lord Jesus, I ain't never seen nothing like that in my life."--Mertilla Jones, Aiyana's grandmother. In Michigan, the designation for homicide is actually 750.316 (PDF), but thats just a mouthful of detail. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. At the center of this economic dynamo was Detroit. [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. The radio was tuned to NPR and A Prairie Home Companion came warbling out of my speakers. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. What happened after that is a matter of conjecture, as Detroit officials have had problems getting their stories straight. ], My baby, my baby, my baby. [11], The jury claimed that race did not affect the decision of their verdict. [12], According to press reports, police were on the scene by 12:40a.m. on Sunday, May 16, 2010. 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. Im not representing the father; Im speaking for the daughter. He also pointed out that while Jones remains a person of interest in JeReans murder, he has not been arrested. Behind the door was Jason Gibson, 25, a violent man with a history of gun crimes, assaults on police, and repeated failures to honor probationary sentences. Seconds after entering the house, where the grenade had caused Aiyanas blanket to catch fire, Weekley fired one fatal shot. As it turns out, he was filming a pilot for his own reality show, entitled The Chief. We noticed you have an ad blocker on. Owens, a habitual criminal, was arrested upstairs minutes after Aiyanas shooting and charged for the slaying of JeRean. People involved. Blame the Federal Reserve. 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. Nor is corruption a black or liberal thing. Judge Hathaway emphasized that two juries, in 2013 and 2014, couldn't reach a unanimous verdict. There are plenty of good people in Detroit, boosters like to say. He has three boys with Aiyanas mother, Dominika Stanley, and three boys with another woman, whom he had left long ago. The Rev. and Weekley for the unlawful use of excessive force. He was shot in the head and killed last year. The crime most likely happened at the . Jones broke down during testimony and had to be escorted out amid sobbing after addressing Weekley who was also in the courtroom directly. Weekley left the courtroom through a private door. Wage growth is slowing. [39], On October 3, the judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Weekley. Word of the free milk and honey made its way down South, and the poor Negros and hillbillies flooded in. First published on January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM. Aiyana Jones was killed nine years ago during a police raid gone wrong and no convictions were made. The day after Huff was killed, and under fire from the police for her leniency toward Gibson, Judge Hathaway went into the case file and made changes, according to notations made in the courts computerized docket system. 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. The camera crew was not inside the house when the girl was hit. By 1958, 20 percent of the Detroit workforce was jobless. She refused to let me see the original paper file, despite the fact that it is a public record, and has said that she cant comment on the case because she might preside in the trial against Gibson. If he didn't give him the gun, they feel like their brother would still be alive, and Aiyana would still be alive.". 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 . But our ammos so bad, we cant do ballistics testing. ME Schmidt ruled it a homicide; the police decided it was a suicide. Jones was born on July 20, 2002, to Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley in Detroit, Michigan. Some 45,000 abandoned houses pock Detroit. "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. [38] So bad is it for Detroits children that Education Secretary Arne Duncan said last year, I lose sleep over that one.. The prisoner has not incurred any serious misconducts while in prison. [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. Seconds after Aiyana's blanket caught fire, the SWAT team stormed through the door, and mistakenly shot Aiyana through the neck, killing her. 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, 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. He looked at Chauncey Owens the wrong way, detectives say. 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). 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. Not to worry: The city had its own welfare system, decades before Lyndon Johnsons Great Society. JeRean knew badness was on its way and called his mother to come pick him up. [32][33] Allison Howard was sentenced to two years of probation in July 2013, and fined $2,000. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. By civic malfeasance? Then came the homicide-by-cop of little Aiyana. Weekley claimed Aiyana Jones' paternal grandmother, Mertilla Jones, attempted to slap his MP5 submachine gun, causing it to fire. Her body was transferred to the Wayne County morgue. 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. Radley Balko | 5.24.2010 3:00 PM. [23] At Weekley's retrial in 2014, it was disclosed that Mertilla's fingerprints were not found on Weekley's gun. Sharptons full of shit, said JeReans mother. They still owe me rent, he said with a face about the Joneses. Police first floated the story that Aiyanas grandmother had grabbed Weekleys gun. The little girl in the video was based on a true story, according to MTV.com. Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. That is, until someone realized that the schools are controlled by rival gangs. The civil rights lawsuit was filed in federal court Wednesday by attorney Geoffrey Fieger over the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones. They turned on the lights and saw that she had been shot.. The frightened black man attempted to save himself. I stared through the windshield at the little boy in the diaper playing amid the ruins, reached over, and switched it off. In the witness box in September, Jones said: Im laying there screaming, asking someone to help my granddaughter because he shot her in the head. That factory closed in 1956 and was left to rot, pulling down the East Side, which pulled down the city. From all indications it appears that police operation were flawed and heavily influenced by camera crews who were filming the raid for A&E's crime show "The First 48," according to a published report. . Weekleys trial began in June 2013 and ended in a mistrial when a jury failed to reach a verdict. In Chief Evans defense, he seemed to understand one thing: After the collapse of the car industry and the implosion of the real estate bubble, there is little else Detroit has to export except its misery. What the fuck do you think? he said. Was Detroit an outlier or an epicenter? Go ahead, walk in the Detroit River and disappear. But I cant. Devils Night is no longer the big deal it used to be, topping out last year at around 65 arsons. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter and "negligent firing of a weapon causing death". Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. I left McNeals porch and started my car. In 2010, a 7-year-old girl, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was slaughtered during a police raid of her home in Detroit. 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. 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. As officer Joseph Weekley walks free, another community is demanding answers about the increasing militarisation of law enforcement. He caught a lunch lady stealing the childrens milk money. Huff entered with his gun still holstered. The Rev. Mertilla Jones was held overnight by Detroit police and then released. They were looking for a murder suspect. 1:46 Detroit After nearly five years, the officer who accidentally killed 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones during a raid being filmed by a TV camera crew has been restored to active duty as a. I dont want no apology from no police. [5] Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway presided over the case. 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 . There are two elementary schools in the area, both in desperate need of a lawnmower and a can of paint. On October 10, the second trial ended in another mistrial. JeRean balled up his tiny fist. The individual being sought at the multi-family dwelling was a suspect in a murder that took place at about 3:00 p.m. the previous Friday. Which is what he was doing at this house, authorities contend, when he put three bullets in Officer Huffs face. Evans was fired. I called the fire department to ask for its statistics. 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. His seven-year-old daughter, Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones (PDF), slept on the couch as her grandmother watched television. You dont go into a home around midnight. I have . Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones (July 20, 2002 - May 16, 2010) was a seven-year-old African-American girl from Detroit 's East Side who was shot in the neck and killed by police officer Joseph Weekley during a raid conducted by the Detroit Police Department's Special Response Team targeting a suspect in the apartment a . It is a matter of conditioning, Cargill later told me. His work has appeared in Time, Life, and Newsweek. The walls are covered with photographs of Geoffrey Fieger. 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. Inexplicably, its carcass still stands and burns incessantly. I wouldnt wish this on nobody in the world. [49], Aiyana Jones' funeral was held in the Second Ebenezer Church on May 22, 2010 in Detroit. Gibson is a tall, thick-necked man who, like the character Omar from The Wire, made his living robbing dope houses. ", The mother of Jones' victim, Lyvonne Cargill, said: "I'm stressed thinking about that man coming home." The team, which had received intelligence that at least one rifle was in the house,wasaccompanied by a crew from the cable TV show, "First 48.". Inexpensive, too! 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. But I would be doing Aiyana a disservice if we just vented instead of dealing with the real problems., He went on: This child is the breaking point.. You know? To avoid the embarrassment of being the nations perpetual murder capital, the police department took to cooking the homicide statistics, reclassifying murders as other crimes or incidents. This is not about policing, he said. 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. Home. Jarrette Jones and Iyanna McNeely. 91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 Flint. 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. Over 10 years ago, Detroit police executed a nighttime raid at a home on the city's east side in search of a murder suspect. What the fuck you looking at?. Why you looking at me? said Owens, getting off the moped. I saw him in the face of my sister, who died a violent death in a filthy section of Detroit a decade ago. The city grew to 1.3 million people from 300,000 after Ford opened his Model T factory. Listen on Apple Podcasts. On May 14, 2010, Jones handed a .357 magnum pistol to his friend Chauncey Owens, who gunned down Cargill's son, 17-year-old Je'Rean Blake, outside the Motor City Marketplace on Mack at St. Jean on Detroit's east side. Charlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, filmmaker, and multimedia reporter. Weekley claimed his gun accidentally went off as he struggled with the girls grandmother, Mertilla Jones. The graduation rate for Detroit schoolkids hovers around 35 percent (PDF). 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. Sometimes they come in a Crown Victoria with only a defibrillator and a blanket, because there are no other units available. His partner took the rear entrance. What I find ironic is a friend of the punks released his video t. Its always like that. Officer Joseph Weekley, the lead commandowhod been featured before on another A&E show, Detroit SWATburst into the house. Do a Google search for "Aiyana Jones" and you get just 42,200 results. 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. 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. "It bothers them," she said. This could be a precedent setting case if the Court . But McNeal messed upshe admits as much. Sarah Cwiek joined Michigan Radio in October 2009. But defense attorney Steve Fishman says Jones has no credibility because she's told different stories about what happened. And now that the papers do cover Detroit, boosters complain about a lack of balance. Technicians are currently working on the problem. The department was also cited for excessive force after people died in lockup and at the hands of rogue cops. The Detroit chapter of the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) and Black Lives Matter Detroit organized the rally on what would have been her 14th birthday. 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 . Little Aiyana's death is heartbreaking! Were going to pull people over for traffic violations and were going to take their cars if theyre not legal. The illiteracy, child poverty, and unemployment rates hover around 50 percent. 42,200. Officers deployeda "flash bang" grenadeand kicked in the front door, and raid team leader Joseph Weekley led the crewinto the house. Juries twice failed to reach a verdict in Weekleys case, first in June 2013 and then in October 2014. 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 if you check the TT's of each city Aiyana is nowhere to . "We had to do it by paperwork, and they read the letters from my side of the family (during the parole hearing)," Cargill said. After the grandmother's outburst, the judge ordered the jury out of the room and the grandmother was escorted from the court room screaming. 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. More than 4,000 people attended Officer Huffs funeral at the Greater Grace Temple on the citys Northwest Side. 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. May 16, 2010, 7-year-old Aiyana was asleep on her couch, wrapped in her Hannah Montana blanket. I would have waited until the morning when the guy went to the liquor store to buy a quart of milk. So is the house across the street. Chief Evans might have survived it all, had he, too, not been drawn to the lights of Hollywood. 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. Two years later he was sentenced to an additional 12 months for violating . 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. The family of a 7-year-old who was fatally shot during a botched raid in 2010 is suing Detroit police, alleging officers lied about how she was killed as part of a cover-up. It was 2:40 in the afternoon on May 14 when JeRean went to the Motor City liquor store and ice-cream stand to get himself an orange juice to wash down his McDonalds. It is the home of mass-production, of very high wages and colossal profits, of lavish spending and reckless instalment-buying, of intense work and a large and shifting labour-surplus, British historian and MP Ramsay Muir wrote in 1927. Owens didn't like the way the Southeastern High School teen had looked at him, according to court testimony. The Jones family also sued Weekley and the Detroit Police Department in 2015. It just goes on, she said. Can she be blamed for that? 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. The number was actually 375. There is speculation that the attending television crew may have increased the incentive for a glamorised, military-style operation. It regards itself as the temple of a new gospel of progress, to which I shall venture to give the name of Detroitism.. A dollhouse sits in an empty lot not far from where Aiyana was shot by the police officers storming her home.It was a total fuck-up, the official said. [47], On September 29, Weekley's lawyer asked the judge for a mistrial, citing Mertilla Jones's conduct on the stand the week before. 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. They drove her there every morning, five miles. Evans brought a refreshing honesty to a department plagued by ineptitude and secrecy. By the end of the following day, police had identified Chauncey Owens as a suspect in Blake's death and obtained a warrant to search 4054 Lillibridge[12] St, where Owens was believed to be hiding. It also allowed a man to escape the smoldering city. [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. Aiyana Joness funeral was held on May 22, 2010, at the Second Ebenezer BaptistChurch in Detroit where Alfred (Al) Charles Sharpton Jr. gave the eulogy. Thats when Owens, 34, pulled up on a moped. 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