Aiyana Jones was killed nine years ago during a police raid gone wrong and no convictions were made. 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 . [53] Two days after Jones's death, on May 18, 2010, attorney Geoffrey Fieger filed lawsuits on behalf of her family against A&E and the police. That house, too, is on the citys East Side, a nondescript brick duplex with a crumbling garage whose driveway funnels into busy Schoenherr Road. In an attempt to distract the occupants, police fired a flash grenade through the front window of the lower apartment, where Aiyana Jones was sleeping. They were looking for a murder suspect. That's it. It is like that all over Detroit, where whole blocks regularly go dark with no warning or any apparent pattern. The man stopped, turned, and pulled a gun. I dont want no apology from no police. He has three boys with Aiyanas mother, Dominika Stanley, and three boys with another woman, whom he had left long ago. He computerized daily crime statistics, created a mobile strike force commanded by young and educated go-getters, and dispatched cops to crime hot spots. 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. 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 . In a photograph from May 2010, Dominika Stanley and Charles Jones hold a picture of their daughter, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, in a Detroit courtroom. It occurred during a frenzied raid by elite officers who burst through the door to search for a murder suspect after throwing a flash grenade to confuse anyone inside. [9][10] Its police disinformation.. But it was dark. 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. You could blame it on the gas shocks of the 70s that opened the door to foreign car competition. All Rights Reserved. He assigned the SWAT team the job of rounding up murder suspects, a task that had previously been done by detectives. The water in the Detroit River was so bad, it was said you could bottle it and sell it as poison. WHat actually happened to this little girl? AIYANAS FAMILY retained Geoffrey Fieger, the flamboyant, brass-knuckled lawyer who represented Dr. Jack Kevorkiana.k.a. Three officers shot, standoff follows in Kansas City, Mo., police say, Vanessa Bryant, family settles claims over Kobe crash site photos for $28.5M. But if it wasnt for them, the city population would have sunk further than it did. Weekley claimed his gun accidentally went off as he struggled with the girls grandmother, Mertilla Jones. Parts of the Detroit River are now clean enough for swimming. By police incompetence? The hospital was six miles away. Not all of us are blessed.. Murder suspect Chauncey Louis Owens, the target of the raid, will be charged. The victim, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was shot in the head while she slept on a couch in May 2010. 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. The dismissal was at the request of Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy, who called the decision, which by law cannot be appealed, unfortunate. AIYANA WAS LAID TO REST six days after her killing. Im worried they went Hollywood, said a high-ranking Detroit police official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the investigation and simmering resentment in the streets. About 40 kids were milling around in front of the soft-serve window. School wasnt a priority. [50][bettersourceneeded] The casket was white and was afterwards driven to the grave by horse-drawn carriage. Weekley will not go to a third trial. Outside, Television was watching them. I want to get out of here, but I cant, she said. A fresh trial was scheduled for December 2013,[29] but actually began in September 2014. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. 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. held a small rally in memory of Jones. As it turns out, he was filming a pilot for his own reality show, entitled The Chief. In Detroit, a new car costs more than the average house. This happened on Sunday. [65][unreliable source?] Jones wasgiven a "contingency parole" after completing required prison programs, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz said Monday. Owens, a habitual criminal, was arrested upstairs minutes after Aiyanas shooting and charged for the slaying of JeRean. But according to a witness, he said nothing. 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. They were conducting a police raid in search of a. Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. 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. Sherrors mom, in white, lost another son to a bullet the previous year. 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. 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. 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. [23] At Weekley's retrial in 2014, it was disclosed that Mertilla's fingerprints were not found on Weekley's gun. Short answer: Yesand no. Do you find this information helpful? And during our conversation, he referred to himself in the third personGeoffrey Fieger. The city reached a peak population of 1.9 million people in the 1950s, and it was 83 percent white. Outside court, a spokesman for Aiyana's family criticized the judge for her comments. A slender, pimply faced kid, JeRean was not an intimidating figure. He caught a lunch lady stealing the childrens milk money. If that isnt a record for any major metropolis, it is certainly a record for Detroit. Dr. Death. Officers deployeda "flash bang" grenadeand kicked in the front door, and raid team leader Joseph Weekley led the crewinto the house. Word of the free milk and honey made its way down South, and the poor Negros and hillbillies flooded in. Evans driver dropped him with a single shot. [5] . The house next door to his is rubble smelling of burnt pine, pissed on by the spray cans of the East Warren Crips. 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. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket. On May 21, 2016, nearly six years after Joness death, the Detroit chapter of Black Lives Matter organized the first rally in her memory. In 2010, a 7-year-old girl, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was slaughtered during a police raid of her home in Detroit. 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. But McNeal messed upshe admits as much. Her death drew national media attention and led U.S. Representative John Conyers to ask U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for a federal . 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. Thats five times as many as New York, in a city one-tenth the size. "I want to say to the entire Jones family, Aiyana's loved ones and friends, how terribly sorry I am for your loss. That year, the police said there were 306 homicidesuntil I began digging. 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. Then there is the thought that Detroit is simply a boomtown that went bust the minute Henry Ford began to build it. As far-fetched as what happened to the Joneses may sound, they are not . (And that statistic is true; I checked.). [36] Aiyana's case would be the longest presiding case that Hathaway had in more than 20 years of being on the bench. You will count 34 churches, a dozen liquor stores, six beauty salons and barber shops, a funeral parlor, a sprawling Chrysler engine and assembly complex working at less than half-capacity, and three dollar storesbut no grocery stores. Stanley suddenly emerged from her stupor: Whats that got to do with it? she hissed. Instead of being protected, communities are treated like the enemy, the report found with a disproportionate effect on communities of color. 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. Even Time bought a house on the East Side last year for $99,000. 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. A small donation would help us keep this available to all. One witness had him pegged for 13 years old. Mertilla Jones was held overnight by Detroit police and then released. The manslaughter trial was declared a mistrial. The judge denied the motion for mistrial, saying she believed the jury could still be "impartial." "[60], In September 2013, J. Cole published a music video dedicated to Jones for his song Crooked Smile, featuring TLC on YouTube. A woman was in his car, the motor running. Theyd not been tabulated for four years. You might say that the homicide of Aiyana is the natural conclusion to the disease from which she suffered, Schmidt told me. When I moved back to Detroit two years ago, I profiled a firehouse on the East Side. [61][62][63], In May 2016, BlackMattersUS[64][unreliable source?] Then JeRean was murdered. His work has appeared in Time, Life, and Newsweek. The little girl in the video was based on a true story, according to MTV.com. 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 . There was no note. The illiteracy, child poverty, and unemployment rates hover around 50 percent. Listen on Apple Podcasts. [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". Much of the firefighters equipment was substandard: Their boots had holes; they were alerted to fires by fax from the central office. My daughter got love, honor, and respect. IT MIGHT BE a stretch to see anything more than Detroits problems in Detroits problems. I get no sleep. Family: 7-year-old shot by police was asleep. I think its abominable. 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. 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. For that he was given simple probation. [41] AS SUMMER DRAGGED on, the story of Aiyana faded from even the regional press. You might point to the trade agreements of the Clinton years, which allowed American manufacturers to leave the country by the back door. 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. JeRean balled up his tiny fist. Both trials ended with hung juries. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. 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. Aiyana Jones was 7 when she was killed in a police raid. Jones was born on July 20, 2002, to Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley in Detroit. [2], After the shot was fired, Weekley reported to his sergeant that a woman inside had grabbed for his gun. Assistant prosecutor Rob Moran told the judge that the misdemeanor was being dropped in the "best interests of justice." The Rev. First, it was six cops who responded to the 911 call. They drove her there every morning, five miles. The lawsuit charges Rowe[who?] Seconds after entering the house, where the grenade had caused Aiyanas blanket to catch fire, Weekley fired one fatal shot. The author of "What Killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones" Charlie LeDuff begins with a brief overview of the surroundings in Detroit, where the homicide took place. Its always like that. Police report that they arrested the suspect at the duplex where the . Why you do this to me? In the case of the night Aiyana was killed, many feel the situation did not call for a military-style bust at midnight. Weekley, who retired from the police department in 2019,claimed Mertilla Jones grabbed his rifle, causing it to discharge. Then, realizing that sounded implausible, they said shed brushed the gun as she ran past the door. JeRean might have thought it was funny to see a grown man driving a moped. 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. [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. The entire botched nighttime raid was captured on camera by crews from the A&E show The First 48. 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. According to reports, seconds after entering the house, Weekley fired the fatal shot. So bad is it for Detroits children that Education Secretary Arne Duncan said last year, I lose sleep over that one.. "My sugar is going up from stress. [12], Two weeks prior to the incident, a Detroit police officer had been killed in the line of duty while attempting to arrest a suspect. Robert Bobb was hired in 2009 as the emergency financial manager and given sweeping powers to balance the books. The death of Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones helped increased national awareness of the ongoing issue of unarmed Black Americans being killed by police. Over the next 50 years, Detroits East Side would become the worlds machine shop, its factory floor. I stared through the windshield at the little boy in the diaper playing amid the ruins, reached over, and switched it off. 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. What occurred next has been disputed by police officers, bystanders, and neighboring residents. Sanders was Aiyana Jones's paternal aunt, the girlfriend of Chauncey Owens, and the daughter of Mertilla Jones. [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. . Once at Aiyanas graveside, Charles Jones released a dove. She told me that JeReans best friend Chaise Sherrors, 17, had been murdered the night beforean innocent bystander who took a bullet in the head as he was on a porch clipping someones hair. She got pregnant at 15. Later that day, Detroit Police identified Chauncey Owens as a suspect in the shooting and a warrant was issued for his arrest. As Detroit led the nation in median income and homeownership, automation and foreign competition were forcing companies like Packard to shutter their doors. They were wondering if the Rust Belt cancer had metastasized and was creeping to Los Angeles and London and Barcelona. Then they said he ran out the back of the house, even though there is no back door. Behind him stood two rookies. A good kid who showed neighborhood children how to work electric clippers, his dream was to open a barbershop. I wouldnt wish this on nobody in the world. Weekley was transferred from the Special Response Team to the Criminal Investigations Bureau. A minute later, a friend took the two dollars as a keepsake. If he didn't give him the gun, they feel like their brother would still be alive, and Aiyana would still be alive.". A small crowd of agitated black people was gathered on the sidewalk. His retrial began in September 2014. 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 raising serious concern among national groups over an increasingly militarized police force. [5] Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway presided over the case. Then they said he jumped out a back window. Even in Detroit, a predominantly black city. The suspect fingered for Blakes murder, Chauncey Owens, lived in the upstairs flat, with Charles Jones sister. Forget about it. So is the house across the street. 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. Aiyanas death garnered national attention, including sharp criticism from the Revs. 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. 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. Gibson bonded out last January and actually showed up for his trial in circuit court on February 17. Even if you check the TT's of each city Aiyana is nowhere to . 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/. Grover 08:10, 10 June 2014 (UTC) Reply . Its some lil niggas at the store talking shitlets go whip they ass, Detective Theopolis Williams later testified that Owens told him during his interrogation. 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