He was shot in the head and killed last year. Were taking whats left.. 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. IT WAS JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on the morning of May 16 and the neighbors say the streetlights were out on Lillibridge Street. "(Jones') parole guideline score placed him in the high probability of parole range," Gautz said in an email. Within seconds, Weekleyfired hisMP5 rifle, killingAiyana, who was sleeping on the living room couch with her grandmother Mertilla Jones. "[60], In September 2013, J. Cole published a music video dedicated to Jones for his song Crooked Smile, featuring TLC on YouTube. The programs six-minute sizzle reel begins with Evans dressed in full battle gear in front of the shattered Michigan Central Rail Depot, cradling a semiautomatic rifle and declaring that he would do whatever it takes to take back the streets of Detroit. 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. Why would anyone move a gunshot victim, much less toss him in a car? Compounding the tragedy is the fact that the police threw the grenade into the wrong apartment. 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. She was only a baby, man. 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. The civil rights lawsuit was filed in federal court Wednesday by attorney Geoffrey Fieger over the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones. 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. Seven-year-old Aiyana Jones was asleep on the living room sofa in her family's apartment when Detroit police searching for a homicide suspect burst in and an officer's gun went off, fatally . 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. Add in the fact that half the police precincts were closed in 2005 for budgetary reasons, and the crime lab was closed two years ago due to ineptitude, and it might explain why five of the nine members of the city council carry a firearm. If he didn't give him the gun, they feel like their brother would still be alive, and Aiyana would still be alive.". Police first floated the story that Aiyanas grandmother had grabbed Weekleys gun. The manslaughter trial was declared a mistrial. They were conducting a police raid in search of a. The bullet struck Aiyana killing her. The landlord of the duplex, Edward Taylor, let me into the Jones apartment. To me, thats like writing about the surf conditions in the Gaza Strip. 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. The graduation rate for Detroit schoolkids hovers around 35 percent (PDF). On October 10, the second trial ended in another mistrial. The title is derived from the California penal code for murder: 187. 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. But the SWAT team didnt wait. [42] While Sanders was on the stand, Judge Cynthia Hathaway told her that she (Sanders) was being "disrespectful. Today75 years after the beavers disappeared from the Detroit RiverDetroitism means something completely different. 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. He failed to report. In 2010 Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, a seven-year-old African American girl, was accidentally shot and killed during a raid that was conducted by the Detroit, Michigan Police Department's Special Response Team. The frightened black man attempted to save himself. 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. [16], Aiyana Jones was the daughter of Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley. . Weekley claimed after he got through the front door that Joness paternal grandmother, Mertilla Jones, attempted to slap away the MP 5 submachine gun that he was holding. Why you looking at me? said Owens, getting off the moped. 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. Young Municipal Center in Detroit. I get no sleep. Word of the free milk and honey made its way down South, and the poor Negros and hillbillies flooded in. Jones and two other men known as Lil James and Dirt rode along for JeReans ass-whipping. 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. Home. JeRean knew badness was on its way and called his mother to come pick him up. What? he croaked. 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. But according to a witness, he said nothing. I forgive him, but I don't forget what he did.". That tape never aired, but it was used as evidence in Weekleys two trials for Aiyanas death. 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. [31] In June 2013, Howard pleaded "no contest" to the obstruction of justice charge, and the perjury charge was dismissed. I began to get calls from reporters around the world wondering what Detroit was like, what was happening here. [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. [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. Then Huff got killed. There are no fewer than two TV dramas, two documentaries, and three reality programs being filmed here. Nevertheless, Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans issued a statement May 18. 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. 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. People call it police brutality. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. But it was dark. [CLICK HERE FOR CHARLIE LEDUFFS EXPOSE ON THE DETROIT AMBULANCE SYSTEM. Sometimes they come in a Crown Victoria with only a defibrillator and a blanket, because there are no other units available. Fugitive in $18 million COVID fraud scheme extradited to U.S. ended without verdicts on a charge of reckless use of a gun. [12], An A&E reality TV television crew was accompanying the police Special Response Team gathering footage for The First 48. [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. 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. 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. What the hell you doing up here for? Aiyana was buried in a white casket which was driven to her grave site by a horse-drawn carriage. My daughter got love, honor, and respect. 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. More than 4,000 people attended Officer Huffs funeral at the Greater Grace Temple on the citys Northwest Side. When I moved back to Detroit two years ago, I profiled a firehouse on the East Side. "Aiyana's death was a tragic loss for her family and has been a heavy burden on our community. 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. Six individuals, who chained themselves to a Detroit Police Department precinct, were arrested Wednesday evening during a rally honoring Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a 7-year old who was shot and. [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. 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. 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 . IT MIGHT BE a stretch to see anything more than Detroits problems in Detroits problems. I went to visit Cargill, who lived just around the way. It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder. He came here for publicity. I am sick as hell. As Officer Weekley wept on the sidewalk, Aiyana was rushed to the trauma table, where she was pronounced dead. Outside, three men were loading the boiler, tubs, and sinks into a trailer to take to the scrap yard. The walls are covered with photographs of Geoffrey Fieger. 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.". In the case of the night Aiyana was killed, many feel the situation did not call for a military-style bust at midnight. 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. His work has appeared in Time, Life, and Newsweek. Its too late.. Louis Miriani, the last Republican mayor of Detroit, who served from 1957 to 1962, was sent to federal prison for tax evasion when he couldnt explain how he made nearly a quarter of a million dollars on a reported salary of only $25,000. Sherrors mom, in white, lost another son to a bullet the previous year. But police officials have refused to discuss how one got shot in the foot. Her parents say they hope Aiyana will be remembered as more than a symbol of heightened tension in a city in crisis. They were restless and agitated and pulled at the collars of dress blues that didnt seem to fit. War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing. As a reporter at the Detroit News, I get plenty of phone calls from people in the neighborhoods. Fiegers suburban office is a shrine to Geoffrey Fieger. In Michigan, the designation for homicide is actually 750.316 (PDF), but thats just a mouthful of detail. Aiyana Jones was killed nine years ago during a police raid gone wrong and no convictions were made. 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. As Detroit led the nation in median income and homeownership, automation and foreign competition were forcing companies like Packard to shutter their doors. Another cruiser with two officers responded as well. A member of JROTC, he was on his way to the military recruitment office after senior prom and commencement. 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. Aiyana Jones was 7 when she was killed in a police raid. Chief Evans might have survived it all, had he, too, not been drawn to the lights of Hollywood. We believe today's settlement is fair because it balances the needs of Aiyana's family and our responsibility for the city's finances. It's us but for your ears. On January 28, 2015, a prosecutor cleared Weekley of the last remaining charge against him, ensuring there would not be a third trial. People are drinking. A good kid with average grades, JeRean went to Southeastern High, which is situated in an industrial belt of moldering Chrysler assembly plants. You might blame Coleman Youngthe citys first black mayorand his culture of cronyism. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. The settlement was finalized just days prior to the scheduled civil trial. It is like that all over Detroit, where whole blocks regularly go dark with no warning or any apparent pattern. The appellatecourt ruledthe presiding judge in Jones'case hadn'tadequately answered jurors' questionsduring deliberations. One ran off. They were looking for a murder suspect. All rights reserved. They want to blame her parents and her aunt who is engaged to the murder suspect. 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. Barry, who has been active in demonstrations against police violence and whose organization has mounted a formal campaign to demilitarize the police, said there were two separate justice systems in the US. If such a thing could be true, Chaises neighborhood is worse than JeReans. This has helped reinforce a culture shift within police departments. [49], Aiyana Jones' funeral was held in the Second Ebenezer Church on May 22, 2010 in Detroit. 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. Thats a hell of a pair of bookends, I offered. After the grandmother's outburst, the judge ordered the jury out of the room and the grandmother was escorted from the court room screaming. Twenty-five-year-old Charles Jones had just gone to bed after covering his 7-year-old daughter Aiyana with her favorite blanket. "(Jones is) the one who gave (Owens) the gun to kill their brother. He, too, was about to graduate from Southeastern High. It was all for the cameras. Killing of Aiyana Jones. Now, Jones family attorney Geoffrey Fieger and the city of Detroit confirm theyve settled the case for $8.25 million. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? [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. In Los Angeles, by comparison, the unsolved-murder rate is 22 percent. Forget about it. The Rust Belt. Its going to stop, he promised. Mertilla Jones was held overnight by Detroit police and then released. She thanked me for coming and showed me her home, which was clean and well kept. On May 21, 2016, nearly six years after Joness death, the Detroit chapter of Black Lives Matter organized the first rally in her memory. The judge denied the motion for mistrial, saying she believed the jury could still be "impartial." A reality TV crew recorded the scene from the street. Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. Inside, splayed on the floor underneath the rack of snack cakes near the register, was a black man in a pool of blood. 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. Jones was born on July 20, 2002, to Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley in Detroit. She looked at her barefoot grandson playing in the wreckage of the dwelling next door and wondered if he would make it to manhood. . Owens didn't like the way the Southeastern High School teen had looked at him, according to court testimony. AIYANAS FAMILY retained Geoffrey Fieger, the flamboyant, brass-knuckled lawyer who represented Dr. Jack Kevorkiana.k.a. Go ahead, walk in the Detroit River and disappear. But I cant. She arrived too late. In the process, the gun belonging to police officer Joseph Weekley . The man stopped, turned, and pulled a gun. It just goes on, she said. The city provided clothing, fuel, rent, and $10 every week to adults for food; children got $5. Al Sharpton spoke her eulogy. We noticed you have an ad blocker on. Murder suspect Chauncey Louis Owens, the target of the raid, will be charged. 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 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.. He computerized daily crime statistics, created a mobile strike force commanded by young and educated go-getters, and dispatched cops to crime hot spots. 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. 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. Aiyana was severely burned and then shot in the head and neck by an unidentified police officer standing on the porch. The killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. The ones pictured here are all found on one block. While other American metropolises have gotten control of their murder rate, Detroits remains where it was during the crack epidemic. The city reached a peak population of 1.9 million people in the 1950s, and it was 83 percent white. Legal name. what happened to aiyana jones. Aiyana Jones was a seven year old girl living in Detroit, who was killed by the police while sleeping in her own home. 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. Do you find this information helpful? He was formerly a reporter for The Detroit News. Some 45,000 abandoned houses pock Detroit. A bunch of lazy, uneducated blue-collar incompetents. They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. Sharpton left and the Rev. I can accept the shooting was a mistake, Jones said about his daughters death as a bleary-eyed Stanley sat motionless next to him. [6][7][8] On October 10, the judge declared a mistrial due to jury deadlock. Aiyana's mother Dominika Stanley, and paternal grandmother Mertilla testified, and both had "emotional outbursts." Two days later, a crew from the Detroit Police Special Response Team raided Jones' house on Lillibridge Street, blocks from the store. 20072023 Blackpast.org. As a reporter, Ive worked from New York to St. Louis to Los Angeles, and Detroit is the only big city I know of that doesnt put out a crime blotter tracking the days mayhem. Her grandmother, Mertilla Jones, was close by. A former risk manager for the district was indicted for siphoning off $3 million for personal use. Which is what he was doing at this house, authorities contend, when he put three bullets in Officer Huffs face. By wit and will, he managed to make it through. But Geoffrey Fieger calls it police arrogance. For instance, in 2008 a man was shot in the head. She arrived too late. Go. He wore a gold bracelet as thick as a gymnasium rope. 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. 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. David Corn, Noah Lanard, and Dan Friedman. He admitted in his first trial that, "It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl. As for the tape that Geoffrey Fieger claimed would show the cops firing on Aiyanas house from outside, A&E turned it over to the police. Later that day, Detroit Police identified Chauncey Owens as a suspect in the shooting and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Once at Aiyanas graveside, Charles Jones released a dove. . 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. 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