About 40 kids were milling around in front of the soft-serve window. Jones broke down during testimony and had to be escorted out amid sobbing after addressing Weekley who was also in the courtroom directly. (And that statistic is true; I checked.). "Aiyana's death was a tragic loss for her family and has been a heavy burden on our community. 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. "(Jones') parole guideline score placed him in the high probability of parole range," Gautz said in an email. 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. [12][17][18] Officer Weekley claimed that the flash grenade subsequently blinded his view of the person on the couch in the living room. [39][40], On the second day of trial, September 24, LaKrystal Sanders, who lived on the upper floor of the house where Aiyana was killed, testified. 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In Detroit, only 1 in 3 kids will graduate from high school. Completed in 1917, the school, attended by white students at the time, was considered so far out in the wilds that its athletic teams took the nickname Jungaleers.. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. The environment didnt affect us none, Jones said. 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). Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway address the court on Friday. The raid happened early Sunday morning. Do you find this information helpful? Over the next 50 years, Detroits East Side would become the worlds machine shop, its factory floor. 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. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. Weekley said it was an accident and accused Jones of wrestling with his gun immediately as he entered the abode, causing the fatal shot. About 350 people are murdered each year in Detroit. The landlord of the duplex, Edward Taylor, let me into the Jones apartment. Inexpensive, too! and Weekley for the unlawful use of excessive force. They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. Then they said he jumped out a back window. 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. Why would anyone move a gunshot victim, much less toss him in a car? 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. His brother stood over the dead man, a pistol in his hand, keeping an eye on the door in case someone walked in wanting to settle things. Dr. Death. Even if you check the TT's of each city Aiyana is nowhere to . 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. IT MIGHT BE a stretch to see anything more than Detroits problems in Detroits problems. The kids are dropping like flies and hes got nothing but useless words., CHECK OUT A SLIDESHOW OF ABANDONED HOUSES ON ONE BLOCK IN DETROIT, join us with a tax-deductible donation today. The Kilpatrick scandal, combined with the murder rate, spurred the newly elected mayor, Dave Bingan NBA Hall of Famerto fire Police Chief James Barrens last year and replace him with Warren Evans, the Wayne County sheriff. I need help. My daughter got love, honor, and respect. 91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 Flint. 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. Mayor Dave Bing spoke. 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. Was Detroit an outlier or an epicenter? Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? 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. If youre a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.. 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. He was shot in the head and killed last year. It is like that all over Detroit, where whole blocks regularly go dark with no warning or any apparent pattern. Police caught him again in November 2009 in possession of a handgun stolen from an Ohio cop. The Packard plant, where we came across this fashion shoot, has been smoldering for decades.In any case, Detroit began its long precipitous decline during the 1950s, precisely when the cityand the United Stateswas at its peak. 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. The morning after he was shot, Chaises clippers were mysteriously deposited on his front porch, wiped clean and free of hair. This happened on Sunday. The civil rights lawsuit was filed in federal court Wednesday by attorney Geoffrey Fieger over the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones. On his desk is a bronze bust of Geoffrey Fieger. Detroit has since made little progress on the federal consent decree. The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. Huff entered with his gun still holstered. When I was a teenager, my mother owned a struggling little flower shop on the East Side, not far from where Aiyana was killed. FEMAIL reveals what has happened to . Twenty-five-year-old Charles Jones had just gone to bed after covering his 7-year-old daughter Aiyana with her favorite blanket. That's it. The prisoner has not incurred any serious misconducts while in prison. Somebody should have told company executives back in New York that they had wildly overpaid. 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. 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.". "(Jones is) the one who gave (Owens) the gun to kill their brother. But the grandmother says she was lying on the far side of the couch, away from the door. 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. The bullet hit a child. The silent suffering.. "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. School wasnt a priority. (Theyd jerry-rigged a contraption where the fax pushes a door hinge, which falls on a screw wired to an actual alarm.) The SWAT team tried the steel door to the building. Nevertheless, Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans issued a statement May 18. People are drinking. It means uncertainty and abandonment and psychopathology. 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. He came here for publicity. The case had been set to go to trial next week. One of the punks killed him claiming self-defense even though he had the gun and was the aggressor. It's now Monday at 10:30pm. That night, she was murdered by the very people meant to "protect" and "serve" her. A bunch of lazy, uneducated blue-collar incompetents. 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. The story rated three paragraphs in the daily papers, and the media never followed up. Take for instance the death of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was shot and killed during a police raid at their Detroit home. I left McNeals porch and started my car. The suspect fingered for Blakes murder, Chauncey Owens, lived in the upstairs flat, with Charles Jones sister. Predictably, Gibson did not show for his new court date. I was allowed to meet with Charles Jones the following morning at Fiegers office, but with the caveat that I could only ask him questions about the evening his daughter was killed. Grover 08:10, 10 June 2014 (UTC) Reply . 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. 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. 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. AIYANAS FAMILY retained Geoffrey Fieger, the flamboyant, brass-knuckled lawyer who represented Dr. Jack Kevorkiana.k.a. 2) NO WEAPONS OF ANY KIND WERE FOUND IN OR OUTSIDE THE HOME OF MERTILLA JONES after the police Special Response Team raid. 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. Danny Wilcox Frazier is a contributing photographer for Mother Jones. 2023 www.detroitnews.com. 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. Cole's character, it turns out, is a drug dealer. Two days later, on May 16, police arrived at the house where Aiyana Jones lived, hoping to find Owens. Scott said a civil suit had been filed and an appeal made to US attorney general Eric Holder to pursue a case for the violation of Aiyanas civil rights. . In a photograph from May 2010, Dominika Stanley and Charles Jones hold a picture of their daughter, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in a Detroit courtroom. Copyright 2023 Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. He came here for publicity. What the fuck you looking at?. So bad is the rivalry that when the schools face off to play football or basketball, spectators from the visiting team are banned. Jones was arrested, and though she was quickly released it was not before she and two other family members Aiyanas parents had been forced to sit in their childs blood for hours, Scott said. It all happened in a matter of seconds. Legal name. But if it wasnt for them, the city population would have sunk further than it did. [38] As the black population grew, so did black frustration over poor housing and rock-fisted police. Was Aiyana's legal last name "Jones", "Stanley Jones", or "Stanley-Jones"? Maybe because the cameras were rolling, maybe because a Detroit police officer had been murdered two weeks earlier while trying to apprehend a suspect. Adam Rose/Netflix In addition to traveling, the Chicago-based pair is looking at a potential move once Iyanna, 27, heads back to school to get her master's degree. Nor is corruption a black or liberal thing. The water in the Detroit River was so bad, it was said you could bottle it and sell it as poison. 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. They still owe me rent, he said with a face about the Joneses. What happened after that is a matter of conjecture, as Detroit officials have had problems getting their stories straight. The accident has led to outrage in Detroit, directed at police. Both trials ended with hung juries. Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. Fiegers suburban office is a shrine to Geoffrey Fieger. The settlement was finalized just days prior to the scheduled civil trial. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Its now just another abandoned house in Detroit.. But according to a witness, he said nothing. Rayshard Brooks was a 27-year-old African American restaurant worker who lived in Atlanta. I mean, hiring the Rosa Parks carriage?, I dont owe Sheffield shit, says Jones. "He has completed various programming and is active in vocational training. People call it police brutality. Later that day, Detroit Police identified Chauncey Owens as a suspect in the shooting and a warrant was issued for his arrest. On Friday, Hathaway dismissed a lesser second charge, of reckless use of a firearm. And during our conversation, he referred to himself in the third personGeoffrey Fieger. 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 . [16], Aiyana Jones was the daughter of Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley. Cargill said her two surviving children, a 30-year-old daughter and son, 22, took the news of Jones' pending release hard. It's us but for your ears. BlackPast.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and our EIN is 26-1625373. Sharptons people called JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, promising to come over to her house after Aiyanas funeral. As for the videotape of the killing, Geoffrey Fieger said he did not have it. I am sick as hell. 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. 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. In 2010, a 7-year-old girl, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was slaughtered during a police raid of her home in Detroit. 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. 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. Soon, the air was the color of a filthy dishrag. I get no sleep. Evans drivera copgave chase. Outside, three men were loading the boiler, tubs, and sinks into a trailer to take to the scrap yard. 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. Forget about it. The conceit of the show is that homicide detectives have 48 hours to crack a murder case before the trail goes cold. She's irresponsible," said Ron Scott, referring to Hathaway's decision to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter charge before a jury at the second trial could consider it. The blood was congealing into a pancake on the dirty linoleum. "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. (Thomas Sugrue, in his seminal book The Origins of the Urban Crisis, writes that residents in Detroits predominantly black lower East Side reported 206 rat bites in 1951 and 1952.). The house on the other side is in much the same state. "[42][43] In this shit, a one-year-old played next door, barefoot. Whenever I see a person who died of violence or misadventure, I think about the dead man with the open eyes on the dirty floor of the liquor store. You will count 34 churches, a dozen liquor stores, six beauty salons and barber shops, a funeral parlor, a sprawling Chrysler engine and assembly complex working at less than half-capacity, and three dollar storesbut no grocery stores. Then they said he ran out the back of the house, even though there is no back door. Jones new family had been on the drift for the past few years as he tried to pull it together. It regards itself as the temple of a new gospel of progress, to which I shall venture to give the name of Detroitism.. I called the fire department to ask for its statistics. Weekley claimed his gun accidentally went off as he struggled with the girls grandmother, Mertilla Jones. 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. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Today75 years after the beavers disappeared from the Detroit RiverDetroitism means something completely different. I stared through the windshield at the little boy in the diaper playing amid the ruins, reached over, and switched it off. Police Chief James Craig stated, "He'll be in a limited duty capacity. Inside the lower unit of a duplex halfway down the gloomy street, Charles Jones, 25, was pacing, unable to sleep. [12], An A&E reality TV television crew was accompanying the police Special Response Team gathering footage for The First 48. [11], The jury claimed that race did not affect the decision of their verdict. . The killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. Then Evans own driver shot a man last October. War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing. 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. 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. An Arab family owned the store, and one of the menthe one with the pocked face and loud voicewas talking on the telephone, but I remember no sounds. [65][unreliable source?] In October 2011, he was charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. Forget what you saw, little man. She got pregnant at 15. Sarah Cwiek joined Michigan Radio in October 2009. An investigation was promised. You know? 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 . 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. [49], Aiyana Jones' funeral was held in the Second Ebenezer Church on May 22, 2010 in Detroit. I have . Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.. . [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. 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.. 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. If such a thing could be true, Chaises neighborhood is worse than JeReans. [23] At Weekley's retrial in 2014, it was disclosed that Mertilla's fingerprints were not found on Weekley's gun. [12] She was one of three children of the couple and had four halfsiblings. The psychopathology of growing up in Detroit, he said. 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. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. He didn't elaborate. The Detroit Free Press has more details here. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. She was only a baby, man. held a small rally in memory of Jones. The crime most likely happened at the . The fire department is little better. 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. You might say that the homicide of Aiyana is the natural conclusion to the disease from which she suffered, Schmidt told me. [12] At the time of the incident Aiyana Jones was asleep on the couch in front room of the downstairs apartment. "My sugar is going up from stress. A seven-year-old Black girl was fatally during a raid in Detroit, Michigan Police Department in 2010. She looked at her barefoot grandson playing in the wreckage of the dwelling next door and wondered if he would make it to manhood. What does the science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic? 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. Behind him stood two rookies. A retrial began on September 23, 2014 but on October 3, 2014, it was declared a mistrial after a second jury deadlocked on a verdict. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. He failed to report. Chauncey Owens, the uncle wanted on murder charges, was said to be going in and out of the house as normal and could have been apprehended during the day. They made it to the trauma ward, where JeRean was pronounced dead. She said she made no contact with any officers. 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. 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