After the fatal shooting, the video concludes with a message dedicated to Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a 7-year-old girl who was shot and killed during a police raid on her house in Detroit back in. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley stands in judge Cynthia Hathaways courtroom in Detroit, in June 2013. On May 14, 2010, JeRean Blake, a senior at Southeastern High School of Technology and Law was shot and killed near an intersection on Detroits east side. [4], Officer Joseph Weekley was charged in connection with Jones' killing. 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. The Rev. In 2019, Jones' family agreed to an $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement against the city of Detroit in connection with the raid. . Why would anyone move a gunshot victim, much less toss him in a car? But it was dark. JeRean knew badness was on its way and called his mother to come pick him up. It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder. Ive seen him in the faces of soldiers when I was covering the Iraq War. [49], Aiyana Jones' funeral was held in the Second Ebenezer Church on May 22, 2010 in Detroit. 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. Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights. 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. Radley Balko | 5.24.2010 3:00 PM. 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Aiyana Jones was killed nine years ago during a police raid gone wrong and no convictions were made. 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. [5] Instead of being protected, communities are treated like the enemy, the report found with a disproportionate effect on communities of color. Later that day, Detroit Police identified Chauncey Owens as a suspect in the shooting and a warrant was issued for his arrest. "(Jones') parole guideline score placed him in the high probability of parole range," Gautz said in an email. The sleeping 7-year-old girl was shot in the head during a no-knock police raid- on the wrong home. Jones and two other men known as Lil James and Dirt rode along for JeReans ass-whipping. A half-dozen masked officers of. [59], On April 2, 2015, nearly five years following Jones's death, Officer Weekley was returned to active duty as a Detroit police officer. [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. Lil James brought along a .357 Magnumat the behest of Jones, Detective Williams testified, because Jones was afraid someone would try to steal his diamond Cartier glasses.. Besides, there was always a job in America when you needed one. It would be easy to lay the blame on McNeal for the circumstances in which she raised her sons. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. [58] Michigan State Police Detective Tawana Powell testified during the 2014 trial that the investigation discovered that the video Fieger was talking about did not exist. He was formerly a reporter for The Detroit News. Southeasterns motto is Age Quod Agis: Attend to Your Business. And JeRean did. what happened to aiyana jones. I think its evil. In Michigan, the designation for homicide is actually 750.316 (PDF), but thats just a mouthful of detail. 2023 www.detroitnews.com. His retrial began in September 2014. There was no note. Thats good news until you realize that in Detroit, some 500 fires are set every single month. You might blame Coleman Youngthe citys first black mayorand his culture of cronyism. I cant heal properly because of it. On January 28, 2015, a prosecutor cleared Weekley of the last remaining charge against him, ensuring there would not be a third trial. [47], On September 29, Weekley's lawyer asked the judge for a mistrial, citing Mertilla Jones's conduct on the stand the week before. Gibson bonded out last January and actually showed up for his trial in circuit court on February 17. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. But pollution didnt kill Detroit. 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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. Jones new family had been on the drift for the past few years as he tried to pull it together. The crumbling houses still crumble. 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. 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. Evans drivera copgave chase. 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. But if it wasnt for them, the city population would have sunk further than it did. The SWAT team tried the steel door to the building. 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.. If such a thing could be true, Chaises neighborhood is worse than JeReans. She had already cleared a space on the other end of the mantel for Chaises urn. Little Aiyana's death is heartbreaking! "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. Weekley, who retired from the police department in 2019,claimed Mertilla Jones grabbed his rifle, causing it to discharge. She said she made no contact with any officers. Grandmother Mertilla Jones said, "Accountability needs to be expected from cases like this, because cops can't keep killing people and getting away with it. 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?. The beavers disappeared from the river around 1930. No Glue or Lace Hiring Black Folks. He won't be in the field. And there are. I was thinking that, she said with tears. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and But McNeal messed upshe admits as much. Weekley doesnt have to pay but the family that lost a child has to pay, said Ron Scott, a spokesman for the family, shortly after attending the dismissal hearing. Family: 7-year-old shot by police was asleep. Listen on Apple Podcasts. 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. She later explained that she reached for her granddaughter when the grenade came through the window and that is what caused her to hit the officers gun. 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. The store bell jingled its little requiem as I pulled the door open. On October 10, the second trial ended in another mistrial. Weekley was transferred from the Special Response Team to the Criminal Investigations Bureau. The killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. Someone radioed in, and more police arrivedbut the official story of what happened that night has changed repeatedly. 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He, too, was about to graduate from Southeastern High. Inexpensive, too! The mayors office is said to have a copy, as well as the Michigan State Police, who are now handling the investigation. Dante Barry, a 26-year-old organizer and executive director of the Million Hoodies Movement for Justice, said the outcome of the case was disappointing but not surprising. Assistant prosecutor Rob Moran told the judge that the misdemeanor was being dropped in the "best interests of justice." She arrived too late. 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. By wit and will, he managed to make it through. He caught a lunch lady stealing the childrens milk money. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. The whole country knew it, and the whole country laughed. Even on Lillibridge Street, the outrage has died down. The city grew to 1.3 million people from 300,000 after Ford opened his Model T factory. [2], After the shot was fired, Weekley reported to his sergeant that a woman inside had grabbed for his gun. The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. They killed a child and then they lied about it.. 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. Judge Hathaway emphasized that two juries, in 2013 and 2014, couldn't reach a unanimous verdict. Short answer: Yesand no. About 350 people are murdered each year in Detroit. In a photograph from May 2010, Dominika Stanley and Charles Jones hold a picture of their daughter, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in a Detroit courtroom. 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. These Wigs Install in Seconds. Sheffield came to see Cargill. Fiegers suburban office is a shrine to Geoffrey Fieger. The hospital was six miles away. Inside, toys, Hannah Montana shoes, and a pyramid of KFC cartons were left to rot. [34][35], Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. Do you find this information helpful? The streetlights still go on and off. IT MIGHT BE a stretch to see anything more than Detroits problems in Detroits problems. [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. Forget about it. Evans told me then that major crimes were routinely underreported by 20 percent. Two days later, on May 16, police arrived at the house where Aiyana Jones lived, hoping to find Owens. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was seven years old and asleep on a couch with her grandmother when Detroit police raided their east side home looking for a murder suspect in 2010. [CLICK HERE FOR CHARLIE LEDUFFS EXPOSE ON THE DETROIT AMBULANCE SYSTEM. In 2007, he attacked a cop and tried to take his gun. Was Detroit an outlier or an epicenter? They were wondering if the Rust Belt cancer had metastasized and was creeping to Los Angeles and London and Barcelona. Me? 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. That's it. Lord Jesus, I ain't never seen nothing like that in my life."--Mertilla Jones, Aiyana's grandmother. Then Evans own driver shot a man last October. [12], Owens was later found guilty of Blake's murder. 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. Go. He wore a gold bracelet as thick as a gymnasium rope. held a small rally in memory of Jones. At the center of this economic dynamo was Detroit. People call it police brutality. and Weekley for the unlawful use of excessive force. Technicians are currently working on the problem. Weekley stated, "A woman inside grabbed my gun. Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, 7, died May 16, 2010 after being shot by an officer during a police raid in Detroit. Fieger alleged a police cover-up. What occurred next has been disputed by police officers, bystanders, and neighboring residents. It's now Monday at 10:30pm. She denied grabbing the weapon. The story smelled to high heaven from the beginning. [23] At Weekley's retrial in 2014, it was disclosed that Mertilla's fingerprints were not found on Weekley's gun. Weekley said it was an accident and accused Jones of wrestling with his gun immediately as he entered the abode, causing the fatal shot. Its easy in our anger, our rage, to just vent and scream. The car made Detroit, and the car unmade Detroit. The fire department is little better. He said. They made it to the trauma ward, where JeRean was pronounced dead. This could be a precedent setting case if the Court . What does the science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic? The red halo around his skull gave the scene a feeling of serenity. Weekley insisted he accidentally pulled the trigger during a struggle with Aiyana's grandmother. In October, judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed a charge of involuntary manslaughter, citing a lack of evidence. And America is buying. 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. The jury stall resulted in seven voting "not guilty" and five voting "guilty". He gives details of the way streets look like at night, and gives a captivating detail of girl's father suffering from insomnia. [41][44][45][46] Because of Mertilla Jones's outburst, the judge stopped the trial until September 29. 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. The walls are covered with photographs of Geoffrey Fieger. . Forbidden by restrictive real estate covenants and racist custom, the blacks were mostly restricted to Paradise Valley, which ran the length of Woodward Avenue. It is like that all over Detroit, where whole blocks regularly go dark with no warning or any apparent pattern. Weekleys trial began in June 2013 and ended in a mistrial when a jury failed to reach a verdict. It was all for the cameras. Then they said he ran out the back of the house, even though there is no back door. 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. During the second trial, Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed the most serious charge, involuntary manslaughter, saying there was insufficient evidence. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was seven years old and asleep on a couch with her grandmother when Detroit police raided their east side home looking for a murder suspect in 2010. What did? The posse allegedly included Aiyanas father, Charles C.J. Jones. The mortician charged $700 for the most basic viewing casket, even though the body was to be cremated. Its now just another abandoned house in Detroit.. What the hell you doing up here for? [50][bettersourceneeded] The casket was white and was afterwards driven to the grave by horse-drawn carriage. It just goes on, she said. 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. 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. A small donation would help us keep this available to all. Mayor Dave Bing spoke. Huff entered with his gun still holstered. A good kid with average grades, JeRean went to Southeastern High, which is situated in an industrial belt of moldering Chrysler assembly plants. All Rights Reserved. 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. Weekley will not go to a third trial. Huff and his partner were not actually called to the scene; theyd taken it upon themselves to assist the younger cops, according to the police version of events. That is, until someone realized that the schools are controlled by rival gangs. They turned on the lights and saw that she had been shot.. JeRean knew badness was on its way and called his mother to come pick him up. 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. Aiyana was killed when police raided a house to capture a murder suspect. If youre a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.. Moreover, the Detroit public school system is the worst performer in the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests, with nearly 80 percent of eighth-graders unable to do basic math. She refused to let me see the original paper file, despite the fact that it is a public record, and has said that she cant comment on the case because she might preside in the trial against Gibson. A half-dozen masked officers of the Special Response TeamDetroits version of SWATwere at the door, guns drawn. I know society looks at a person like me and wants me to go away, she said. But the grandmother says she was lying on the far side of the couch, away from the door. [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. The kids are dropping like fliesespecially young black malesand hes got nothing but useless words.. Officers deployeda "flash bang" grenadeand kicked in the front door, and raid team leader Joseph Weekley led the crewinto the house. I got something for you.. Twenty-five-year-old Charles Jones had just gone to bed after covering his 7-year-old daughter Aiyana with her favorite blanket. It regards itself as the temple of a new gospel of progress, to which I shall venture to give the name of Detroitism.. Its always like that. We noticed you have an ad blocker on. It was a sweatbox, and I went across the street to the liquor store for a soda pop. 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