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. Owens switched his moped for a Chevy Blazer. Many are as fucked up and sad as Aiyanas. . The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. 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. These girls are the lucky ones. [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. Listen on Apple Podcasts. Owens, a habitual criminal, was arrested upstairs minutes after Aiyanas shooting and charged for the slaying of JeRean. "I want to say to the entire Jones family, Aiyana's loved ones and friends, how terribly sorry I am for your loss. 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 . That factory closed in 1956 and was left to rot, pulling down the East Side, which pulled down the city. Sharptons people called JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, promising to come over to her house after Aiyanas funeral. 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 . I would have waited until the morning when the guy went to the liquor store to buy a quart of milk. [12], Two weeks prior to the incident, a Detroit police officer had been killed in the line of duty while attempting to arrest a suspect. They made it to the trauma ward, where JeRean was pronounced dead. It also allowed a man to escape the smoldering city. I saw him in the face of my sister, who died a violent death in a filthy section of Detroit a decade ago. Have him call me, and then hung up the phone. Its always like that. [CHECK OUT A SLIDESHOW OF ABANDONED HOUSES ON ONE BLOCK IN DETROIT]I keep calling about these falling-down houses, but the city never comes, she said. Weekley was transferred from the Special Response Team to the Criminal Investigations Bureau. The radio was tuned to NPR and A Prairie Home Companion came warbling out of my speakers. JeRean knew badness was on its way and called his mother to come pick him up. Stanley suddenly emerged from her stupor: Whats that got to do with it? she hissed. And TV may have needed some pyrotechnics. He was charged twice with involuntary manslaughter, but both cases ended in mistrials. He said. During the second trial, Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed the most serious charge, involuntary manslaughter, saying there was insufficient evidence. 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 . [42] While Sanders was on the stand, Judge Cynthia Hathaway told her that she (Sanders) was being "disrespectful. 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. We believe today's settlement is fair because it balances the needs of Aiyana's family and our responsibility for the city's finances. 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. In 2007, he attacked a cop and tried to take his gun. 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. Her parents say they hope Aiyana will be remembered as more than a symbol of heightened tension in a city in crisis. It was unlocked. It fired. Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones for just $14.95. The number was actually 375. [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'. Defense attorney Steve Fishman said prosecutors were courageous by closing the case. Sherrors was killed by a stray bullet while cutting a friends hair on a front porch just 27 days after JeRean died. He failed to report. I left McNeals porch and started my car. They were looking for a murder suspect. [51] She was buried on the grounds. Not to worry: The city had its own welfare system, decades before Lyndon Johnsons Great Society. He was formerly a reporter for The Detroit News. His murder led to the police raid that killed Aiyana.With large swaths of the city rewildingempty lots are returning to prairie and woodland as the city depopulatesSoutheastern was slated to absorb students from nearby Kettering High this year as part of a massive school-consolidation effort. Little Aiyana's death is heartbreaking! Compounding the tragedy is the fact that the police threw the grenade into the wrong apartment. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. The kids are dropping like fliesespecially young black malesand hes got nothing but useless words.. You might blame the UAW, which demanded things like full pay for idle workers, or myopic Big Three management who, instead of saying no, simply tacked the cost onto the price of a car. A seven-year-old Black girl was fatally during a raid in Detroit, Michigan Police Department in 2010. The flower shop is just a pile of bricks now, but despite what the Arab told me, I did not forget what I saw. IT WAS JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on the morning of May 16 and the neighbors say the streetlights were out on Lillibridge Street. It's us but for your ears. She waited, but Sharpton never came. Then Evans own driver shot a man last October. [41] There are two elementary schools in the area, both in desperate need of a lawnmower and a can of paint. Funeral for Chaise Sherrors, JeReans best friend. Aiyana Stanley-Jones, pictured in family photograph. She was seven years old. He came here for publicity. I get no sleep. I get no sleep. The First 48 photographer Allison Howard was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. He got paid exactly what he was supposed to be paid.. Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. [2] Her death drew national media attention[3] and led U.S. Representative John Conyers to ask U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for a federal investigation into the incident. "[42][43] By 1958, 20 percent of the Detroit workforce was jobless. It was a white cop who killed the girl, but Detroit is Americas largest black city with a black mayor and a black chief of police. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley in court in Detroit, Mich. on June 18, 2013 during his first trial. On a hot afternoon around one Mothers Day, I was working in the back greenhouse. [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. Seven-year-old Aiyana Jones was sleeping on the couch next to her grandmother in their Detroit, Michigan home when a SWAT team threw a flashbang through the window, which landed on her blanket. Seconds after entering the house, where the grenade had caused Aiyanas blanket to catch fire, Weekley fired one fatal shot. IT MIGHT BE a stretch to see anything more than Detroits problems in Detroits problems. Its too late.. Three officers shot, standoff follows in Kansas City, Mo., police say, Vanessa Bryant, family settles claims over Kobe crash site photos for $28.5M. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. [6][7][8] Until there wasnt. Weekley, who retired from the police department in 2019,claimed Mertilla Jones grabbed his rifle, causing it to discharge. Jones was born on July 20, 2002, to Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley in Detroit, Michigan. His seven-year-old daughter, Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones (PDF), slept on the couch as her grandmother watched television. The bullet hit a child. He looked at Chauncey Owens the wrong way, detectives say. It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder. Weekley will not go to a third trial. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. [20] He pushed his way inside, protected by a ballistic shield. The smell was beastly. Take for instance the death of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was shot and killed during a police raid at their Detroit home. Of course I would. In Detroit, the official response time of an ambulance to a 911 call is 12 minutes. 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. They still owe me rent, he said with a face about the Joneses. It was all for the cameras. The posse allegedly included Aiyanas father, Charles C.J. Jones. 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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. She told me that JeReans best friend Chaise Sherrors, 17, had been murdered the night beforean innocent bystander who took a bullet in the head as he was on a porch clipping someones hair. To me, thats like writing about the surf conditions in the Gaza Strip. It's been a year since 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley Joneswas killed by members of a Detroit Special Response team. 42,200. Charlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, filmmaker, and multimedia reporter. As for the struggles of a generation of living people, the murder of a hundred children, they ask me: Whats new in that?. 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 police were searching for a murder suspect thought to be in the Jones home. But when you call for help, it seems like no ones there. There are lawyers and doctors and auto executives with nice homes and good jobs, community elders trying to make things better, teachers who spend their own money on classroom supplies, people who mow lawns out of respect for the dead, parents who raise their children, ministers who help with funeral expenses. That's it. A half-dozen masked officers of. In 2010, a 7-year-old girl, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was slaughtered during a police raid of her home in Detroit. 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. Both sons now sit in urns on her mantel.Chaise lived on the other side of the Chrysler complex. Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, 7, died May 16, 2010 after being shot by an officer during a police raid in Detroit. The problem once the police start amassing these kinds of weapons and tools and absorb a certain mentality, is it just increases the probability that they are going to deploy it even when not warranted, Edwards says. 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. Paramedics say it is routinely much longer. On April 4, 2019, Aiyanas family settled with Detroit for $8.25 million. 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. Im trying to find him, Sheffield complained. But police officials have refused to discuss how one got shot in the foot. He won't be in the field. But the grandmother says she was lying on the far side of the couch, away from the door. Outside, Television was watching them. Theyd not been tabulated for four years. [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 Detroit City Council needs to approve the settlement. 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.". One question that lurked behind the scenes of the Aiyana Jones trial was whether the fact that producers from A&E's 'The First 48' played any role in what happened the night Aiyana died. He became a horrifying statisticone of 103 kids and teens murdered between January 2009 and July 2010. Sharptons full of shit, said JeReans mother. But McNeal messed upshe admits as much. [52], A civil rights lawsuit questioned Weekley's account of the incident, claiming the grenade had gone through the window and struck Aiyana. The flashbacks. [38] It all happened in a matter of seconds. . An 11th-grade dropout and convicted robber, he said he supported his seven children with a little this, a little thatI got a few tricks and trades.. 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?. Three ISO members describe what happened when a neo-Nazi . The case had been set to go to trial next week. and Weekley for the unlawful use of excessive force. Weekley insisted he accidentally pulled the trigger during a struggle with Aiyana's grandmother. 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. In October 2011, he was charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. It is not protocol. African American History: Research Guides & Websites, Global African History: Research Guides & Websites, African American Scientists and Technicians of the Manhattan Project, Envoys, Diplomatic Ministers, & Ambassadors, Foundation, Organization, and Corporate Supporters. A small crowd of agitated black people was gathered on the sidewalk. The walls are covered with photographs of Geoffrey Fieger. 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. In this way, what happened to J Cole's daughter? AS SUMMER DRAGGED on, the story of Aiyana faded from even the regional press. Mertilla Jones, 46, and her grandaughter, Aiyana Jones, 7, were asleep on a couch in their lower flat's front room at about 12:30 a.m. when police tossed an incendiary stun grenade through the window directly above the couch. 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.. The city provided clothing, fuel, rent, and $10 every week to adults for food; children got $5. But the SWAT team didnt wait. [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. 2023 www.detroitnews.com. Seconds after Aiyana's blanket caught fire, the SWAT team stormed through the door, and mistakenly shot Aiyana through the neck, killing her. Im alive. 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. First, it was six cops who responded to the 911 call. What the hell you doing up here for? She was only a baby, man. Forbidden by restrictive real estate covenants and racist custom, the blacks were mostly restricted to Paradise Valley, which ran the length of Woodward Avenue. 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. 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. But if it wasnt for them, the city population would have sunk further than it did. Young Municipal Center in Detroit. That house, too, is on the citys East Side, a nondescript brick duplex with a crumbling garage whose driveway funnels into busy Schoenherr Road. The Detroit Police Department was in search of a murderer, and mistakenly raided Aiyana's home. What the hell you doing up here for? JeReans crime? Then she introduced me to her 14-year-old son DeErion, whose remains sat in an urn on the mantel. [32][33] Allison Howard was sentenced to two years of probation in July 2013, and fined $2,000. The phone the most serious charge, involuntary manslaughter, saying there was evidence. 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