Once at Aiyanas graveside, Charles Jones released a dove. He admitted in his first trial that, "It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl. [12] She was one of three children of the couple and had four halfsiblings. There are plenty of good people in Detroit, boosters like to say. Her parents say they hope Aiyana will be remembered as more than a symbol of heightened tension in a city in crisis. Within seconds, Weekleyfired hisMP5 rifle, killingAiyana, who was sleeping on the living room couch with her grandmother Mertilla Jones. It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder. The city filled with people from all over the world: Arabs, Appalachians, Poles, African Americans, all in their separate neighborhoods surrounding the factories. Dont bother locking it. 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. Fieger alleged a police cover-up. I saw him in the face of my sister, who died a violent death in a filthy section of Detroit a decade ago. 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. If that isnt a record for any major metropolis, it is certainly a record for Detroit. 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. Weve got nothing but bullet fragments., A neighbor who tends the lawn in front of the dope house out of respect to Huff wonders why so many cops came in the first place, given that the police hardly come around at all, much less that many cops that fast on a home break-in.. Sharptons full of shit, said JeReans mother. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter and "negligent firing of a weapon causing death". Detroit has since made little progress on the federal consent decree. 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 . Cargill said her two surviving children, a 30-year-old daughter and son, 22, took the news of Jones' pending release hard. I dont want no apology from no police. He got paid exactly what he was supposed to be paid.. The city provided clothing, fuel, rent, and $10 every week to adults for food; children got $5. JeReans crime? What the fuck you looking at?. Why would anyone move a gunshot victim, much less toss him in a car? Short answer: Yesand no. 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/. I saw him in the face of my sisters daughter, who died from a heroin overdose in a suburban basement near the interstate, weeks after I moved back to Michigan with my wife to raise our daughter and take a job with the Detroit News. The presence of children in the house was known. The settlement was finalized just days prior to the scheduled civil trial. Both trials ended with hung juries. It is like that all over Detroit, where whole blocks regularly go dark with no warning or any apparent pattern. The Detroit Free Press has more details here. On January 28, 2015, a prosecutor cleared Weekley of the last remaining charge against him, ensuring there would not be a third trial. 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. [38] 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. Another cruiser with two officers responded as well. For that he was given simple probation. Jones was born on July 20, 2002, to Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley in Detroit. It fired. I need help. [39], On October 3, the judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Weekley. Danny Wilcox Frazier is a contributing photographer for Mother Jones. They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. Aiyana Joness funeral was held on May 22, 2010, at the Second Ebenezer BaptistChurch in Detroit where Alfred (Al) Charles Sharpton Jr. gave the eulogy. [34][35], Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. 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. But McNeal messed upshe admits as much. Juries twice failed to reach a verdict in Weekleys case, first in June 2013 and then in October 2014. Sherrors was killed by a stray bullet while cutting a friends hair on a front porch just 27 days after JeRean died. Gibson bonded out last January and actually showed up for his trial in circuit court on February 17. Was it inevitable, as the doctor said, that abject poverty would lead to Aiyanas death and so many others? 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. 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?. 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. A thousand people attended, as did the predictable plump of media. It was Jameson who finally dragged Huff out of the house and gave him CPR in the driveway, across the street from the Boys & Girls Club. In Chief 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. Mertilla Jones was held overnight by Detroit police and then released. 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. [12][17][18] Officer Weekley claimed that the flash grenade subsequently blinded his view of the person on the couch in the living room. Radley Balko | 5.24.2010 3:00 PM. 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. The lawsuit charges Rowe[who?] [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". held a small rally in memory of Jones. They were looking for a murder suspect. All rights reserved. His mothers house on Lillibridge, he said, was just supposed to be a way station to better things. [12], According to press reports, police were on the scene by 12:40a.m. on Sunday, May 16, 2010. "It's irking me so bad," Cargill said. The service was held at Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit, a drab cake-shaped megachurch near the Chrysler Freeway. They turned on the lights and saw that she had been shot.. Plus, grenades are rarely used when rounding up suspects, even murder suspects. 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. At the time Owens was the boyfriend of Joness aunt LaKrystal Sanders, who was also living at the house. On October 4, 2011, a Wayne County grand jury indicted Officer Joseph Weekley for involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. The raid happened early Sunday morning. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. 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. He came here for publicity. Jones wasgiven a "contingency parole" after completing required prison programs, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz said Monday. A slender, pimply faced kid, JeRean was not an intimidating figure. [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. AS SUMMER DRAGGED on, the story of Aiyana faded from even the regional press. 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. WRSX 91.3 Port Huron is off the air due to network issues. It feels like there aint no love no more.. First published on January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM. [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 girl from the East Side of Detroit, Michigan who was shot and killed during a raid conducted by the Detroit Police Department's Special Response Team on May 16, 2010. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. I stared through the windshield at the little boy in the diaper playing amid the ruins, reached over, and switched it off. People involved. 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. Editors note: On October 4, 2011, following a yearlong investigation by the Michigan state police, Officer Weekley was charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm. The case had been set to go to trial next week. Detroit, MI The family of Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a 7-year old girl shot and killed by a Detroit police officer, has received an $8.25 million settlement almost 9 years after the tragic incident. Look at the Trending Topics on Twitter. But is she responsible for police officers with broken computers in their squad cars, firefighters with holes in their boots, ambulances that arrive late, a city that cant keep its lights on and leaves its vacant buildings to the arsonists match, a state government that allows corpses to stack up in the morgue, multinational corporations that move away and leave poisoned fields behind, judges who let violent criminals walk the streets, school stewards who steal the childrens milk money, elected officials who loot the city, automobile executives who couldnt manage a grocery store, or Wall Street grifters who destroyed the economy and left the nations children with a burden of debt? I went to see Fieger to ask him to show me the tape. [CLICK HERE FOR CHARLIE LEDUFFS EXPOSE ON THE DETROIT AMBULANCE SYSTEM. In October 2011, he was charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. That tape never aired, but it was used as evidence in Weekleys two trials for Aiyanas death. Unclaimed bodies at the Wayne County MorgueTHE RAID ON THE Lillibridge house that took little Aiyanas life came two weeks and at least a dozen homicides after the last time police stormed into a Detroit home. You might blame postwar industrial policies that sent the factories to the suburbs, the rural South, and the western deserts. You could blame it on the gas shocks of the 70s that opened the door to foreign car competition. This happened on Sunday. [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 beavers disappeared from the river around 1930. 20072023 Blackpast.org. [6][7][8] He has three boys with Aiyanas mother, Dominika Stanley, and three boys with another woman, whom he had left long ago. The police were . She thanked me for coming and showed me her home, which was clean and well kept. The streetlights still go on and off. Cole's character, it turns out, is a drug dealer. Aiyana Jones settlement On April 4, Attorney Geoffrey Fieger announced that the City of Detroit had agreed to an $8.2 million settlement in the 2010 slaughter of Aiyana Jones, 7, by another joint task force incuding Detroit Police Officer Joseph Weekley during a military-style assault on her grandmother Mertilla Jones' home. By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. Forego a bottle of soda and donate its cost to us for the information you just learned, and feel good about helping to make it available to everyone. 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