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. [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'. 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. [56] A spokesman for city police demanded that Fieger share the tape's contents with Michigan State Police investigators. I cant heal properly because of it. The Jones family also sued Weekley and the Detroit Police Department in 2015. The SWAT team tried the steel door to the building. Two trials against Officer Joseph Weekley ended without verdicts on a charge of reckless use of a gun. Owens sped two blocks back to Lillibridge and gathered up a posse, according to his statement to the police. About 40 kids were milling around in front of the soft-serve window. The victim, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was shot in the head while she slept on a couch in May 2010. This could be a precedent setting case if the Court . Im alive. As Detroit led the nation in median income and homeownership, automation and foreign competition were forcing companies like Packard to shutter their doors. You might blame Coleman Youngthe citys first black mayorand his culture of cronyism. 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. It's now Monday at 10:30pm. Suddenly, Detroit was historic, symbolichip, even. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was 7 years old when she was killed by a single bullet to the head. By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. . I went to visit Cargill, who lived just around the way. But our ammos so bad, we cant do ballistics testing. There are at least 50 corpses on hold in his morgue cooler, some unidentified, others whose next of kin are too poor to bury them. Sherrors was killed by a stray bullet while cutting a friends hair on a front porch just 27 days after JeRean died. [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". They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. I get no sleep. It is not protocol. 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. At the prosecutors request, Hathaway dismissed the last charge against Joseph Weekley. 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. [6][7][8] On October 10, the judge declared a mistrial due to jury deadlock. [5] Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway presided over the case. . 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 camera crew was not inside the house when the girl was hit. They were wondering if the Rust Belt cancer had metastasized and was creeping to Los Angeles and London and Barcelona. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. 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. Danny Wilcox Frazier is a contributing photographer for Mother Jones. Weekley insisted he accidentally pulled the trigger during a struggle with Aiyana's grandmother. 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. "Aiyana's death was a tragic loss for her family and has been a heavy burden on our community. The hospital was six miles away. Twenty-five-year-old Charles Jones had just gone to bed after covering his 7-year-old daughter Aiyana with her favorite blanket. Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she slept on a couch in a Detroit home in 2010. 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. Now, Jones family attorney Geoffrey Fieger and the city of Detroit confirm theyve settled the case for $8.25 million. I have . So is the house across the street. 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. What the hell you doing up here for? 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. Other auto plants sprang up on the East Side: Packard, Studebaker, Chryslers Dodge Main. 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. He got paid exactly what he was supposed to be paid.. The kids are dropping like fliesespecially young black malesand hes got nothing but useless words.. He came here for publicity. The appellatecourt ruledthe presiding judge in Jones'case hadn'tadequately answered jurors' questionsduring deliberations. I would have waited until the morning when the guy went to the liquor store to buy a quart of milk. [39], On October 3, the judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Weekley. It regards itself as the temple of a new gospel of progress, to which I shall venture to give the name of Detroitism.. 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. 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. 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. They had time, a Detroit police detective told me. Coco Jones has lived many lives. A thousand people attended, as did the predictable plump of media. [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. Like so many across the country, shes being evicted with no job and no place to go. He assigned the SWAT team the job of rounding up murder suspects, a task that had previously been done by detectives. Listen on Apple Podcasts. The crime most likely happened at the . Aiyana was severely burned and then shot in the head and neck by an unidentified police officer standing on the porch. As it turns out, he was filming a pilot for his own reality show, entitled The Chief. The car made Detroit, and the car unmade Detroit. The family is seeking $7.5 million in damages and a jury trial conceded by the court filing. On January 28, 2015, the remaining charge on Weekley, a misdemeanor for careless discharge of a firearm causing death, was dismissed. The madness has to stop, he said. Short answer: Yesand no. The morning after he was shot, Chaises clippers were mysteriously deposited on his front porch, wiped clean and free of hair. ], My baby, my baby, my baby. She arrived too late. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. And now that the papers do cover Detroit, boosters complain about a lack of balance. Even in Detroit, a predominantly black city. A small donation would help us keep this available to all. 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/. He caught a lunch lady stealing the childrens milk money. A few minutes after that, JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, arrived and got behind the wheel of the car that friends had dragged him into. Why would anyone move a gunshot victim, much less toss him in a car? Predictably, Gibson did not show for his new court date. Sanders was Aiyana Jones's paternal aunt, the girlfriend of Chauncey Owens, and the daughter of Mertilla Jones. The walls are covered with photographs of Geoffrey Fieger. The Detroit Police Department was in search of a murderer, and mistakenly raided Aiyana's home. If youre a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. I dont want no apology from no police. Radley Balko | 5.24.2010 3:00 PM. But police officials have refused to discuss how one got shot in the foot. Aiyana's mother Dominika Stanley, and paternal grandmother Mertilla testified, and both had "emotional outbursts." [32][33] Allison Howard was sentenced to two years of probation in July 2013, and fined $2,000. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket.. A woman was in his car, the motor running. Why you do this to me? Then Evans own driver shot a man last October. The accident has led to outrage in Detroit, directed at police. Weekley was transferred from the Special Response Team to the Criminal Investigations Bureau. 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. 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. A half-dozen masked officers of. Sharptons full of shit, said Cargill, a brassy 39-year-old who works as a stock clerk at Target. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley stands in judge Cynthia Hathaways courtroom in Detroit, in June 2013. Inside, splayed on the floor underneath the rack of snack cakes near the register, was a black man in a pool of blood. A member of JROTC, he was on his way to the military recruitment office after senior prom and commencement. It means uncertainty and abandonment and psychopathology. Im trying to find him, Sheffield complained. Its some lil niggas at the store talking shitlets go whip they ass, Detective Theopolis Williams later testified that Owens told him during his interrogation. Shoddily equipped firemen face some 500 arsons a month.Detroit has been synonymous with arson since the 80s, when the city burst into flames in a pre-Halloween orgy of fire and destruction known as Devils Night. Thats when Owens, 34, pulled up on a moped. 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. Weekley stated, "A woman inside grabbed my gun. The man stopped, turned, and pulled a gun. Two years later he was sentenced to an additional 12 months for violating . The story smelled to high heaven from the beginning. Then they said he ran out the back of the house, even though there is no back door. [49], Aiyana Jones' funeral was held in the Second Ebenezer Church on May 22, 2010 in Detroit. His body was transferred to Dr. Schmidt and the Wayne County morgue. We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. JeReans mother drove as he gurgled in the backseat. Not even you.. Specifically, since 1997 a 1033 program has enabled the transferring of billions of dollars worth of military equipment from the Department of Defense including mine-resistant protected vehicles originally developed by the South African defence force to thousands of small American communities. The jury stall resulted in seven voting "not guilty" and five voting "guilty". [12] At the time of the incident Aiyana Jones was asleep on the couch in front room of the downstairs apartment. There are some 10,000 unsolved homicides dating back to 1960. JEREAN BLAKE NOBLES was one of the rare black males in Detroit who made it (PDF) through high school. BlackPast.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and our EIN is 26-1625373. 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. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. She said she made no contact with any officers. My daughter got love, honor, and respect. Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she slept on a couch in a Detroit home in 2010. According to reports, seconds after entering the house, Weekley fired the fatal shot. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket. 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 author of "What Killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones" Charlie LeDuff begins with a brief overview of the surroundings in Detroit, where the homicide took place. 2) NO WEAPONS OF ANY KIND WERE FOUND IN OR OUTSIDE THE HOME OF MERTILLA JONES after the police Special Response Team raid. Much of the firefighters equipment was substandard: Their boots had holes; they were alerted to fires by fax from the central office. Aiyana Stanley-Jones, pictured in family photograph. 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. 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. 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. She arrived too late. The department was also cited for excessive force after people died in lockup and at the hands of rogue cops. Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy, though his heart did not seem to be in it. Look at the Trending Topics on Twitter. I stared through the windshield at the little boy in the diaper playing amid the ruins, reached over, and switched it off. Gibson bonded out last January and actually showed up for his trial in circuit court on February 17. 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). The official went on to say that the SWAT team was not briefed about the presence of children in the house, although the neighborhood informant who led homicide detectives to the Lillibridge address told them that children lived there. I got no money. Police fired a flash grenade through the front window. It went straight through the childs head. Weekley claimed his gun accidentally went off as he struggled with the girls grandmother, Mertilla Jones. The killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. [16], Aiyana Jones was the daughter of Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley. 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. In this way, what happened to J Cole's daughter? I forgive him, but I don't forget what he did.". This is not about policing, he said. 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. We believe today's settlement is fair because it balances the needs of Aiyana's family and our responsibility for the city's finances. 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. Do you find this information helpful? What did? His eyes and mouth were open and held that milky expression of a drunk who has fallen asleep with his eyes open. The streetlights still go on and off. "[42][43] What happened after that is a matter of conjecture, as Detroit officials have had problems getting their stories straight. 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. Chief Evans might have survived it all, had he, too, not been drawn to the lights of Hollywood. Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway address the court on Friday. [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. In tow was an A&E crew filming an episode of The First 48, its true-crime program. Seconds after Aiyana's blanket caught fire, the SWAT team stormed through the door, and mistakenly shot Aiyana through the neck, killing her. The red halo around his skull gave the scene a feeling of serenity. Over the next 50 years, Detroits East Side would become the worlds machine shop, its factory floor. Seconds after entering the house, where the grenade had caused Aiyanas blanket to catch fire, Weekley fired one fatal shot. By wit and will, he managed to make it through. The First 48 photographer Allison Howard was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. He looked at Chauncey Owens the wrong way, detectives say. He admitted in his first trial that, "It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl. She got pregnant at 15. A total, unfortunate fuck-up.. He also told me that perhaps 50 percent of Detroits drivers were operating without a license or insurance. Sometimes they come in a Crown Victoria with only a defibrillator and a blanket, because there are no other units available. That year, the police said there were 306 homicidesuntil I began digging. If he didn't give him the gun, they feel like their brother would still be alive, and Aiyana would still be alive.". But the SWAT team didnt wait. Sarah Cwiek joined Michigan Radio in October 2009. 91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 Flint. 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. I began to get calls from reporters around the world wondering what Detroit was like, what was happening here. The Rust Belt. Plus, grenades are rarely used when rounding up suspects, even murder suspects. In the end, Gibson was charged with Huffs murder and the attempted murders of four more officers. What the hell you doing up here for? So what? Fieger barked. Mayor Dave Bing spoke. 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. PICTURES: Aiyana Jones, 7, Killed by Cop Weekley, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter, said he didn't immediately realize that he had shot Aiyana during the 2010 house raid. Mertilla Jones was held overnight by Detroit police and then released. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. 42,200. At its peak popularity, 810 fires were set in a three-day span. This was the first raid on a house since his death. 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