Weekley claimed his gun accidentally went off as he struggled with the girls grandmother, Mertilla Jones. Coco Jones has lived many lives. That tape never aired, but it was used as evidence in Weekleys two trials for Aiyanas death. When I was a teenager, my mother owned a struggling little flower shop on the East Side, not far from where Aiyana was killed. The little girl in the video was based on a true story, according to MTV.com. 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 . You might blame Coleman Youngthe citys first black mayorand his culture of cronyism. "[42][43] Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. He came here for publicity. Mayor Dave Bing spoke. Now, Jones family attorney Geoffrey Fieger and the city of Detroit confirm theyve settled the case for $8.25 million. Uncategorized. Social media and keyword searches can tell much about the popularity and worth of a topic. AIYANAS FAMILY retained Geoffrey Fieger, the flamboyant, brass-knuckled lawyer who represented Dr. Jack Kevorkiana.k.a. The First 48 photographer Allison Howard was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. [42] While Sanders was on the stand, Judge Cynthia Hathaway told her that she (Sanders) was being "disrespectful. 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 floor above Jones' on May 16, 2010. And there are. His body was transferred to Dr. Schmidt and the Wayne County morgue. On January 28, 2015, a prosecutor cleared Weekley of the last remaining charge against him, ensuring there would not be a third trial. 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. As far-fetched as what happened to the Joneses may sound, they are not . 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.. 42,200. Was it death by TV? 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.. 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. Gibson bonded out last January and actually showed up for his trial in circuit court on February 17. The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. That house, too, is on the citys East Side, a nondescript brick duplex with a crumbling garage whose driveway funnels into busy Schoenherr Road. After the finale aired, we didn't know whether they're still together or not until the reunion on March 4, but a little social media sleuthing told us they were still . Grover 08:10, 10 June 2014 (UTC) Reply . 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. 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 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 . Police Chief James Craig stated, "He'll be in a limited duty capacity. On a hot afternoon around one Mothers Day, I was working in the back greenhouse. War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing. Two trials against Officer Joseph Weekley ended without verdicts on a charge of reckless use of a gun. People involved. [2], After the shot was fired, Weekley reported to his sergeant that a woman inside had grabbed for his gun. Forget about it. The family is seeking $7.5 million in damages and a jury trial conceded by the court filing. Why you looking at me? said Owens, getting off the moped. The killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. What I find ironic is a friend of the punks released his video t. [12] She was one of three children of the couple and had four halfsiblings. [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. Almost half of all adults are illiterate.Duncan may lie awake, but many civic leaders appear to walk around with their eyes sealed shut. For instance, in 2008 a man was shot in the head. Fieger alleged a police cover-up. 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. Thats when Owens, 34, pulled up on a moped. The fire department is little better. 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. The crumbling houses still crumble. The entire botched nighttime raid was captured on camera by crews from the A&E show The First 48. Jones, 25, a slight man with frizzy braids, wore a dingy T-shirt. People my mothers age like to tell me about Detroits good old days of soda fountains and shopping markets and lazy Saturday night drives. The whole country knew it, and the whole country laughed. By parental neglect? 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. The auto industry allowed for sprawl. Were going to pull people over for traffic violations and were going to take their cars if theyre not legal. 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. Nor is corruption a black or liberal thing. I called the fire department to ask for its statistics. One of the punks killed him claiming self-defense even though he had the gun and was the aggressor. She denied grabbing the weapon. Police fired a flash grenade through the front window. [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. [59], On April 2, 2015, nearly five years following Jones's death, Officer Weekley was returned to active duty as a Detroit police officer. 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. It is like that all over Detroit, where whole blocks regularly go dark with no warning or any apparent pattern. Mertilla Jones was held overnight by Detroit police and then released. January 7, 2022 . [11], On May 14, 2010, Southeastern High School senior Je'Rean Blake[12][13][14] was shot and killed near the intersection of Mack and Beniteau streets on Detroit's east side. 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. I am sick as hell. Three ISO members describe what happened when a neo-Nazi . So is the house across the street. The conceit of the show is that homicide detectives have 48 hours to crack a murder case before the trail goes cold. People call it police brutality. [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. Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones was asleep on the sofa when a police SWAT team hurled a flash-bang grenade into the apartment and smashed the front door down. 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. Stanley suddenly emerged from her stupor: Whats that got to do with it? she hissed. The beavers disappeared from the river around 1930. "This was an assassination by video," said Roland Lawrence as he and others watched a small plane . Not to worry: The city had its own welfare system, decades before Lyndon Johnsons Great Society. The case garnered national headlines for all of the obvious reasons: an innocent child caught in police crosshairs, another black life taken in a city filled with heartache. [CLICK HERE FOR CHARLIE LEDUFFS EXPOSE ON THE DETROIT AMBULANCE SYSTEM. This could be a precedent setting case if the Court . In the case of the night Aiyana was killed, many feel the situation did not call for a military-style bust at midnight. I left McNeals porch and started my car. While a thousand people mourned the tragic death of Aiyana, the body of JeRean Blake Nobles sat in a refrigerator at a local funeral parlor; his mother was too poor to bury him herself and too respectful to bury him until after the little girls funeral, anyhow. [12], An A&E reality TV television crew was accompanying the police Special Response Team gathering footage for The First 48. Responding to a breaking-and-entering and shots-fired call at 3:30 a.m., Officer Brian Huff, a 12-year veteran, walked into that dark house. Then Evans own driver shot a man last October. Cargill said because of COVID-19 restrictions, she was unable to attend Jones' parole hearings to contest his release. One man, who wanted to turn himself in for a murder, gave up trying to call the Detroit police; he drove to Ohio and turned himself in there. What the fuck you looking at?. I began to get calls from reporters around the world wondering what Detroit was like, what was happening here. Neighbor Paul Jameson, a former soldier whose wife had called in the break-in to 911, said the rookies ran toward the house and opened fire after Huff was shot. 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. 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. [23] At Weekley's retrial in 2014, it was disclosed that Mertilla's fingerprints were not found on Weekley's gun. At its peak popularity, 810 fires were set in a three-day span. Nevertheless, Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans issued a statement May 18. 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. By police incompetence? Desperation, she said, feels like someones reaching down your throat and ripping out your guts. A bunch of lazy, uneducated blue-collar incompetents. Oh, stay your ass right here, Owens growled. Her parents say they hope Aiyana will be remembered as more than a symbol of heightened tension in a city in crisis. Then, realizing that sounded implausible, they said shed brushed the gun as she ran past the door. A fresh trial was scheduled for December 2013,[29] but actually began in September 2014. Charlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, filmmaker, and multimedia reporter. 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. They were looking for a murder suspect. JeReans mother drove as he gurgled in the backseat. The lawsuit charges Rowe[who?] You might point to the trade agreements of the Clinton years, which allowed American manufacturers to leave the country by the back door. His work has appeared in Time, Life, and Newsweek. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. Until there wasnt. On Friday, Hathaway dismissed a lesser second charge, of reckless use of a firearm. ], My baby, my baby, my baby. A thousand people attended, as did the predictable plump of media. Detroit. Outside, three men were loading the boiler, tubs, and sinks into a trailer to take to the scrap yard. Police officers came from Canada and across Michigan. Even on Lillibridge Street, the outrage has died down. Thats a hell of a pair of bookends, I offered. But according to a witness, he said nothing. JeRean knew badness was on its way and called his mother to come pick him up. But the grandmother says she was lying on the far side of the couch, away from the door. Another cruiser with two officers responded as well. Little Aiyana's death is heartbreaking! [50][bettersourceneeded] The casket was white and was afterwards driven to the grave by horse-drawn carriage. [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. Your donation is fully tax-deductible. [24] Geoffrey Fieger, the family's lawyer, said the police fired the shot that struck Aiyana from outside the home, possibly through the open front door. The graduation rate for Detroit schoolkids hovers around 35 percent (PDF). What the hell you doing up here for? Final charges against Joseph Weekley, a police officer who shot dead a 7-year-old girl, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in Detroit in May 2010, were dismissed on Friday, leaving a family bereft and. [47], On September 29, Weekley's lawyer asked the judge for a mistrial, citing Mertilla Jones's conduct on the stand the week before. Im trying to find him, Sheffield complained. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. Then JeRean was murdered. 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. 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). And he wouldnt even help her. 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.". Sharpton left and the Rev. 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. But I felt unraveling this one death could help diagnose what has gone wrong in this city, so I decided to retrace the events leading up to that pitiable moment on the porch on Lillibridge Street. On October 4, 2011, a Wayne County grand jury indicted Officer Joseph Weekley for involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. 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 slap caused the gun to fire with the bullets striking young Aiyana in the head and killing her instantly. [12] At the time of the incident Aiyana Jones was asleep on the couch in front room of the downstairs apartment. [51] She was buried on the grounds. Seconds after Aiyana's blanket caught fire, the SWAT team stormed through the door, and mistakenly shot Aiyana through the neck, killing her. He said. Evans brought a refreshing honesty to a department plagued by ineptitude and secrecy. I was thinking that, she said with tears. Today75 years after the beavers disappeared from the Detroit RiverDetroitism means something completely different. 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. 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 . But in 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. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Sherrors was killed by a stray bullet while cutting a friends hair on a front porch just 27 days after JeRean died. After the grandmother's outburst, the judge ordered the jury out of the room and the grandmother was escorted from the court room screaming. Soon, the air was the color of a filthy dishrag. In this shit, a one-year-old played next door, barefoot. [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. 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. He assigned the SWAT team the job of rounding up murder suspects, a task that had previously been done by detectives. So there should have been a parade with confetti and tanks of lemonade, but instead, the complaints about overaggressive cops began to roll in. Ive seen him in the faces of soldiers when I was covering the Iraq War. Evans drivera copgave chase. JeRean balled up his tiny fist. I want to get out of here, but I cant, she said. Was Aiyana's legal last name "Jones", "Stanley Jones", or "Stanley-Jones"? I dont want no apology from no police. Her body was transferred to the Wayne County morgue. As for the struggles of a generation of living people, the murder of a hundred children, they ask me: Whats new in that?. You might blame postwar industrial policies that sent the factories to the suburbs, the rural South, and the western deserts. Killing of Aiyana Jones. When I called the head of the homicide bureau and explained the situation, he told me, Oh yeah? BlackPast.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and our EIN is 26-1625373. It's us but for your ears. Three officers shot, standoff follows in Kansas City, Mo., police say, Vanessa Bryant, family settles claims over Kobe crash site photos for $28.5M. In fact, there are no chain grocery stores in all of Detroit. All rights reserved. Its too late.. 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. The psychopathology of growing up in Detroit, he said. "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? As Detroit led the nation in median income and homeownership, automation and foreign competition were forcing companies like Packard to shutter their doors. They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. He admitted in his first trial that, "It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl. 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. This was the first raid on a house since his death. Then came the homicide-by-cop of little Aiyana. [31] In June 2013, Howard pleaded "no contest" to the obstruction of justice charge, and the perjury charge was dismissed. The ACLU report found that only 7% of Swat raids were in hostage or active shooter situations situations that justify such extreme responses and 79% were effectuating search warrants, situations that do not call for Swat interventions. 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. The Detroit City Council needs to approve the settlement. "(Jones is) the one who gave (Owens) the gun to kill their brother. The official version was that two men were walking in the middle of a street on the East Side when Evans and his driver told them to walk on the sidewalk. 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. Jones does not have a release date identified, although he could be freed as early as Thursday, Gautz said. 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. The city provided clothing, fuel, rent, and $10 every week to adults for food; children got $5. IT WAS JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on the morning of May 16 and the neighbors say the streetlights were out on Lillibridge Street. . "I want to say to the entire Jones family, Aiyana's loved ones and friends, how terribly sorry I am for your loss. "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. 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. I asked Fieger if Charles Jones should accept some culpability in his daughters death, considering his alleged role in JeReans murder, the stolen cars found in his backyard, and the fact that his daughter slept on the couch next to an unlocked door. Sharptons people called JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, promising to come over to her house after Aiyanas funeral. About 350 people are murdered each year in Detroit. No weapons were found on ANY person in the house after the raid, including Charles Jones and Aiyana's mother Dominika, Aiyana and her two toddler brothers, Mertilla Jones and her sister, and two adult cousins of Charles. DETROIT - At the prosecutor's request, a judge on Friday dismissed the last charge against a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a 7-year-old girl during a raid. It was unlocked. [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. An investigation was promised. Not even you.. It also allowed a man to escape the smoldering city. 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. [4], Officer Joseph Weekley was charged in connection with Jones' killing. If that isnt a record for any major metropolis, it is certainly a record for Detroit. He was formerly a reporter for The Detroit News. Aiyana Stanley-Jones, pictured in family photograph. The manslaughter trial was declared a mistrial. Then there is the thought that Detroit is simply a boomtown that went bust the minute Henry Ford began to build it. The hospital was six miles away. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket.. JeRean knew badness was on its way and called his mother to come pick him up. His seven-year-old daughter, Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones (PDF), slept on the couch as her grandmother watched television. At the center of this economic dynamo was Detroit. In 2010 Aiyana MoNay Stanley-Jones, a seven-year-old African American girl, was accidentally shot and killedduring a raid that was conducted by the Detroit,Michigan Police Departments Special Response Team. "She's not a scapegoat. 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. He gave her $800 for funeral costs. They were conducting a police raid in search of a. Thirty-four hours earlier, JeRean Blake Nobles, 17, had been shot outside a liquor store on nearby Mack Avenue; an informant had IDd a man named Chauncey Owens as the shooter and provided this address. Im alive. The flashbacks. Both sons now sit in urns on her mantel.Chaise lived on the other side of the Chrysler complex. He gives details of the way streets look like at night, and gives a captivating detail of girl's father suffering from insomnia. Suddenly, Detroit was historic, symbolichip, even. It feels like there aint no love no more.. 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. According to reports, seconds after entering the house, Weekley fired the fatal shot. 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. 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 . Weekley, a member of an elite police unit, was the first officer through the door during a chaotic . Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? A good kid with average grades, JeRean went to Southeastern High, which is situated in an industrial belt of moldering Chrysler assembly plants. ReverendAl Sharpton gave the eulogy. In October, judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed a charge of involuntary manslaughter, citing a lack of evidence. Thats how its supposed to be done.. . At the prosecutors request, Hathaway dismissed the last charge against Joseph Weekley. She said she made no contact with any officers. . They were looking for a murder suspect. You dont go into a home around midnight. Bagpipes played and the rain fell. Aiyana was severely burned and then shot in the head and neck by an unidentified police officer standing on the porch. 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. Then Huff got killed. In Detroit, the official response time of an ambulance to a 911 call is 12 minutes. 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. [49], Aiyana Jones' funeral was held in the Second Ebenezer Church on May 22, 2010 in 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. The crime most likely happened at the . Owens switched his moped for a Chevy Blazer. 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. The department decided to withdraw him from active duty shortly after the shooting on May 16, 2010. Police report that they arrested the suspect at the duplex where the . 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. The dismissal was at the request of Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy, who called the decision, which by law cannot be appealed, unfortunate. 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