They were wondering if the Rust Belt cancer had metastasized and was creeping to Los Angeles and London and Barcelona. 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. Somebody should have told company executives back in New York that they had wildly overpaid. His mothers house on Lillibridge, he said, was just supposed to be a way station to better things. The case had been set to go to trial next week. 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. After the grandmother's outburst, the judge ordered the jury out of the room and the grandmother was escorted from the court room screaming. The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. His body was transferred to Dr. Schmidt and the Wayne County morgue. 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. But even he couldnt stanch the tsunami of red ink; the deficit ballooned more than $140 million under his guidance. The day Barrens cleaned out his desk, a burglar cleaned out Barrens house. I began to get calls from reporters around the world wondering what Detroit was like, what was happening here. 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. Both trials ended with hung juries. Was it death by TV? Bobb did uncover graft and fraud and waste, however. Tens of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands. It was 12:40 am on Sunday, May 16, 2010. But when you call for help, it seems like no ones there. Wage growth is slowing. "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. Sharptons people called JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, promising to come over to her house after Aiyanas funeral. What the fuck you looking at?. As a reporter at the Detroit News, I get plenty of phone calls from people in the neighborhoods. Jones, too, later became a person of interest in JeReans murderhe allegedly went along for the ridebut Jones denies it, and hes lawyered up and moved to the suburbs. Weekley still is charged with careless discharge of a firearm causing death in the May 2010 shooting, which happened as police executed a search warrant for a murder suspect. . 1894 shipwreck found in Lake Huron, confirming "powerful, tragic story", Garland to face Congress amid ongoing special counsel investigations, FBI chief says agency feels pandemic likely started with Chinese lab leak. Police Chief James Craig stated, "He'll be in a limited duty capacity. 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. They had even kept Aiyana in her old school, Trix Elementary, because it was something consistent in her life, a clean and safe school in a city with too few. 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. Its now just another abandoned house in Detroit.. You might say that the homicide of Aiyana is the natural conclusion to the disease from which she suffered, Schmidt told me. 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. But the people of Lillibridge Street still look like theyve been picked up by their hair and dropped from the rooftop. I called the fire department to ask for its statistics. The walls are covered with photographs of Geoffrey Fieger. This was the first raid on a house since his death. Lord Jesus, I ain't never seen nothing like that in my life."--Mertilla Jones, Aiyana's grandmother. Devils Night is no longer the big deal it used to be, topping out last year at around 65 arsons. That night, she was murdered by the very people meant to "protect" and "serve" her. [5] Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway presided over the case. 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.. On Friday, Hathaway dismissed a lesser second charge, of reckless use of a firearm. As Officer Weekley wept on the sidewalk, Aiyana was rushed to the trauma table, where she was pronounced dead. "[21][22], Mertilla Jones said she reached for her granddaughter when the grenade came through the window, not for the officer's gun, because the flash grenade had set the child on fire. 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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. 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. They want to blame her parents and her aunt who is engaged to the murder suspect. The settlement was finalized just days prior to the scheduled civil trial. Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights. "My sugar is going up from stress. All rights reserved. Behind him stood two rookies. IT MIGHT BE a stretch to see anything more than Detroits problems in Detroits problems. A good kid with average grades, JeRean went to Southeastern High, which is situated in an industrial belt of moldering Chrysler assembly plants. War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing. 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 . what happened to aiyana jones. "They said he'll be on parole until 2030, and he or his family can't be around my family. Young Municipal Center in Detroit. Outside, a reality television crew filmed the events for A&E. "He has completed various programming and is active in vocational training. The streetlights still go on and off. 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. The judge denied the motion for mistrial, saying she believed the jury could still be "impartial." 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. People my mothers age like to tell me about Detroits good old days of soda fountains and shopping markets and lazy Saturday night drives. Aiyanas death garnered national attention, including sharp criticism from the Revs. For that he was given simple probation. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. Do you got a problem or something? 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. Clutching his juice in one hand and two dollars in the other, JeRean staggered across Mack Avenue and collapsed in the street. Then Evans own driver shot a man last October. What the hell you doing up here for? But police officials have refused to discuss how one got shot in the foot. The killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. [59], On April 2, 2015, nearly five years following Jones's death, Officer Weekley was returned to active duty as a Detroit police officer. "This was an assassination by video," said Roland Lawrence as he and others watched a small plane . Grover 08:10, 10 June 2014 (UTC) Reply . On May 21, 2016, nearly six years after Joness death, the Detroit chapter of Black Lives Matter organized the first rally in her memory. If that isnt a record for any major metropolis, it is certainly a record for Detroit. Sharpton left and the Rev. 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. As our Detroit reporter, she is helping us expand our coverage of the economy, politics, and culture in and around the city of Detroit. Nevertheless, Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans issued a statement May 18. Have him call me, and then hung up the phone. The red halo around his skull gave the scene a feeling of serenity. I think its one of the lowest things I have ever seen.. The hospital was six miles away. Protestors pleaded for the termination of Officer Weekley as he had been selected to co-chair the Detroit Police Department's Committee on Race and Equality. He became a horrifying statisticone of 103 kids and teens murdered between January 2009 and July 2010. [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. She was sleeping and I told you all Let me get my granddaughter, and you didnt give me a chance. It went straight through the childs head. Paramedics say it is routinely much longer. It is not protocol. So what? Fieger barked. [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. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. I left McNeals porch and started my car. [37], Weekley's retrial started in September 2014. Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy, though his heart did not seem to be in it. So is the house across the street. JeReans mother drove as he gurgled in the backseat. 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. We noticed you have an ad blocker on. With Chief Evans vacationing overseas with a subordinate, Fieger ran wild, holding a press conference where he claimed he had seen videotape of Officer Weekley firing into the house from the porch. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. While other American metropolises have gotten control of their murder rate, Detroits remains where it was during the crack epidemic. The prisoner has not incurred any serious misconducts while in prison. 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. The presence of children in the house was known. 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.. The Detroit Police Department was in search of a murderer, and mistakenly raided Aiyana's home. His partner took the rear entrance. First published on January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM. In Michigan, the designation for homicide is actually 750.316 (PDF), but thats just a mouthful of detail. I cant heal properly because of it. The Detroit chapter of the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) and Black Lives Matter Detroit organized the rally on what would have been her 14th birthday. In August 2014, he was convicted and sentenced to a year in prison on four counts, including false imprisonment and felony cruelty to children. It was 2:40 in the afternoon on May 14 when JeRean went to the Motor City liquor store and ice-cream stand to get himself an orange juice to wash down his McDonalds. There was no note. 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. Thats when Owens, 34, pulled up on a moped. Her parents say they hope Aiyana will be remembered as more than a symbol of heightened tension in a city in crisis. For Aiyana, it's the irony of the portrait circulating the Web: The smiling 7-year-old in her freshest plaits and multicolored barrettes, literally surrounded by a trifecta of white Disney princesses-blonde Cinderella, brunette Snow White and redhead Ariel, the Little Mermaid. But our ammos so bad, we cant do ballistics testing. Not even you.. Aiyana Jones was killed nine years ago during a police raid gone wrong and no convictions were made. And America is buying. Listen on Apple Podcasts. 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 . Forget about it. He said. Funeral for Chaise Sherrors, JeReans best friend. 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. Later that day, Detroit Police identified Chauncey Owens as a suspect in the shooting and a warrant was issued for his arrest. 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. Maybe because the cameras were rolling, maybe because a Detroit police officer had been murdered two weeks earlier while trying to apprehend a suspect. Owens sped two blocks back to Lillibridge and gathered up a posse, according to his statement to the police. 2023 www.detroitnews.com. 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. 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. Then there is the thought that Detroit is simply a boomtown that went bust the minute Henry Ford began to build it. Police officers came from Canada and across Michigan. They were conducting a police raid in search of a. That is, until someone realized that the schools are controlled by rival gangs. 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 appellatecourt ruledthe presiding judge in Jones'case hadn'tadequately answered jurors' questionsduring deliberations. I went to visit Cargill, who lived just around the way. 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. One witness had him pegged for 13 years old. [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. "It bothers them," she said. The civil rights lawsuit was filed in federal court Wednesday by attorney Geoffrey Fieger over the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones. I am sick as hell. I would have waited until the morning when the guy went to the liquor store to buy a quart of milk. But the real mystery behind Officer Huffs murder is why Gibson was out on the street in the first place. She denied grabbing the weapon. 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. [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. And TV may have needed some pyrotechnics. Was Detroit an outlier or an epicenter? Why would anyone move a gunshot victim, much less toss him in a car? Aiyana was buried in a white casket which was driven to her grave site by a horse-drawn carriage. [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. [47], On September 29, Weekley's lawyer asked the judge for a mistrial, citing Mertilla Jones's conduct on the stand the week before. Would you take a job at that Chrysler plant if there were any jobs there? I asked one of the men, who was sweating under the weight of the cast iron. Were going to pull people over for traffic violations and were going to take their cars if theyre not legal. Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway address the court on Friday. The SWAT team tried the steel door to the building. About 350 people are murdered each year in Detroit. Owens didn't like the way the Southeastern High School teen had looked at him, according to court testimony. [51] She was buried on the grounds. Until there wasnt. The flashbacks. According to the police, Officer Joseph Weekley was the first police officer to enter the home. 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. An investigation was promised. Weekley shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she slept on a couch in a Detroit home in 2010. 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. 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. As officer Joseph Weekley walks free, another community is demanding answers about the increasing militarisation of law enforcement. Now, Jones family attorney Geoffrey Fieger and the city of Detroit confirm theyve settled the case for $8.25 million. Inexpensive, too! It is like that all over Detroit, where whole blocks regularly go dark with no warning or any apparent pattern. 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. "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.. Police arrested Mertilla, administered tests for drugs and gunpowder, and released her Sunday morning. That's it. held a small rally in memory of Jones. 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. Coco Jones has lived many lives. [42] While Sanders was on the stand, Judge Cynthia Hathaway told her that she (Sanders) was being "disrespectful. Dr. Carl Schmidt is the chief medical examiner there. My daughter got love, honor, and respect. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter and "negligent firing of a weapon causing death". Im alive. The conceit of the show is that homicide detectives have 48 hours to crack a murder case before the trail goes cold. The entire botched nighttime raid was captured on camera by crews from the A&E show The First 48. It's been a year since 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley Joneswas killed by members of a Detroit Special Response team. 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. [4], Officer Joseph Weekley was charged in connection with Jones' killing. When I was a teenager, my mother owned a struggling little flower shop on the East Side, not far from where Aiyana was killed. Weekley claimed Aiyana Jones' paternal grandmother, Mertilla Jones, attempted to slap his MP5 submachine gun, causing it to fire. 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, Jones lawyer said. Sherrors mom, in white, lost another son to a bullet the previous year. In this way, what happened to J Cole's daughter? They were restless and agitated and pulled at the collars of dress blues that didnt seem to fit. Its too late.. He is charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a. In the case of the night Aiyana was killed, many feel the situation did not call for a military-style bust at midnight. Some 45,000 abandoned houses pock Detroit. Murder suspect raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. his what happened to aiyana jones was to. Angeles and London and Barcelona on Friday court Wednesday by attorney Geoffrey over... 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