By civic malfeasance? 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. The illiteracy, child poverty, and unemployment rates hover around 50 percent. His motive, authorities say, was that the teen failed to pay him the proper respect. Someone radioed in, and more police arrivedbut the official story of what happened that night has changed repeatedly. Dont bother locking it. The Jones family also sued Weekley and the Detroit Police Department in 2015. You might say that the homicide of Aiyana is the natural conclusion to the disease from which she suffered, Schmidt told me. 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. Cargill said because of COVID-19 restrictions, she was unable to attend Jones' parole hearings to contest his release. He admitted in his first trial that, "It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl. It just goes on, she said. Both sons now sit in urns on her mantel.Chaise lived on the other side of the Chrysler complex. These girls are the lucky ones. The silent suffering.. 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. Evans brought a refreshing honesty to a department plagued by ineptitude and secrecy. The appellatecourt ruledthe presiding judge in Jones'case hadn'tadequately answered jurors' questionsduring deliberations. 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. The slap caused the gun to fire with the bullets striking young Aiyana in the head and killing her instantly. People involved. [49], Aiyana Jones' funeral was held in the Second Ebenezer Church on May 22, 2010 in Detroit. Aiyana's mother Dominika Stanley, and paternal grandmother Mertilla testified, and both had "emotional outbursts." People are drinking. Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones for just $14.95. [61][62][63], In May 2016, BlackMattersUS[64][unreliable source?] The flashbacks. WAS IT SO SIMPLE? 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. For years it was the all-but-official policy of the newspapers to ignore the black city, since the majority of readers lived in the predominantly white suburbs. 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. The case had been set to go to trial next week. At its peak popularity, 810 fires were set in a three-day span. Social media and keyword searches can tell much about the popularity and worth of a topic. The official version was that two men were walking in the middle of a street on the East Side when Evans and his driver told them to walk on the sidewalk. 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. She was only a baby, man. Cole's character, it turns out, is a drug dealer. Why you looking at me? said Owens, getting off the moped. Not even you.. I have . 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 . He also told me that perhaps 50 percent of Detroits drivers were operating without a license or insurance. I think its abominable. Even if you check the TT's of each city Aiyana is nowhere to . [50][bettersourceneeded] The casket was white and was afterwards driven to the grave by horse-drawn carriage. You could blame it on the gas shocks of the 70s that opened the door to foreign car competition. He computerized daily crime statistics, created a mobile strike force commanded by young and educated go-getters, and dispatched cops to crime hot spots. 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. I began to get calls from reporters around the world wondering what Detroit was like, what was happening here. [37], Weekley's retrial started in September 2014. An investigation was promised. What happened after that is a matter of conjecture, as Detroit officials have had problems getting their stories straight. As far-fetched as what happened to the Joneses may sound, they are not . Aiyana Stanley-Jones was 7 years old when she was killed by a single bullet to the head. Aiyanas death garnered national attention, including sharp criticism from the Revs. The individual being sought at the multi-family dwelling was a suspect in a murder that took place at about 3:00 p.m. the previous Friday. She denied grabbing the weapon. His body was transferred to Dr. Schmidt and the Wayne County morgue. The president of the school board, Otis Mathis, recently admitted that he had only rudimentary writing skills shortly before being forced to resign for fondling himself during a meeting with the school superintendent. ", The mother of Jones' victim, Lyvonne Cargill, said: "I'm stressed thinking about that man coming home." Legal name. The individual being sought at the multi-family dwelling was a suspect in a murder that took place at about 3:00 p.m. the previous Friday. What occurred next has been disputed by police officers, bystanders, and neighboring residents. 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 accident has led to outrage in Detroit, directed at police. DETROIT - At the prosecutor's request, a judge on Friday dismissed the last charge against a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a 7-year-old girl during a raid. By police incompetence? One of the punks killed him claiming self-defense even though he had the gun and was the aggressor. Detroit VA hospital harmed patients, altered records, investigation reveals, $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Juries twice failed to reach a verdict in Weekleys case, first in June 2013 and then in October 2014. 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. Huff entered with his gun still holstered. She arrived too late. A bunch of lazy, uneducated blue-collar incompetents. ], My baby, my baby, my baby. Officers deployeda "flash bang" grenadeand kicked in the front door, and raid team leader Joseph Weekley led the crewinto the house. . I know society looks at a person like me and wants me to go away, she said. Robert Bobb was hired in 2009 as the emergency financial manager and given sweeping powers to balance the books. This happened on Sunday. Henry Ford built his first automobile assembly-line plant in Highland Park in 1908 on the east side of Woodward Avenue, the thoroughfare that divides the east of Detroit from the west. His seven-year-old daughter, Aiyana Monay Stanley-Jones (PDF), slept on the couch as her grandmother watched television. 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. 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. She was seven years old. But our ammos so bad, we cant do ballistics testing. "[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. Almost half of all adults are illiterate.Duncan may lie awake, but many civic leaders appear to walk around with their eyes sealed shut. 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. In Detroit, a new car costs more than the average house. Until there wasnt. One ran off. 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. Copyright 2023 Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. By 1958, 20 percent of the Detroit workforce was jobless. He didn't elaborate. Then Huff got killed. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. He might have smirked. Coco Jones has lived many lives. I get no sleep. Danny Wilcox Frazier is a contributing photographer for Mother Jones. The entire botched nighttime raid was captured on camera by crews from the A&E show The First 48. 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. 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. 91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 Flint. His weapon fired a single shot, the bullet striking Aiyana in the head and exiting her neck. Me? Detroit has since made little progress on the federal consent decree. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket.. Officials said Gibson ran out the front of the house. DETROITS EAST SIDE is now the poorest, most violent quarter of Americas poorest, most violent big city. Aiyana Jones was killed nine years ago during a police raid gone wrong and no convictions were made. [42] While Sanders was on the stand, Judge Cynthia Hathaway told her that she (Sanders) was being "disrespectful. 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. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and I was allowed to meet with Charles Jones the following morning at Fiegers office, but with the caveat that I could only ask him questions about the evening his daughter was killed. Thats how its supposed to be done.. Fieger alleged a police cover-up. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. The smell was beastly. Jones broke down during testimony and had to be escorted out amid sobbing after addressing Weekley who was also in the courtroom directly. [19], Police officers, bystanders, and residents of the home disagreed about the events that followed. There are lawyers and doctors and auto executives with nice homes and good jobs, community elders trying to make things better, teachers who spend their own money on classroom supplies, people who mow lawns out of respect for the dead, parents who raise their children, ministers who help with funeral expenses. Families of people killed by police officers and activists gathered at the feet of the Spirit of Detroit statue in front of the Coleman A. 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. 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 . Murder suspect Chauncey Louis Owens, the target of the raid, will be charged. I saw him in the face of my sister, who died a violent death in a filthy section of Detroit a decade ago. The SWAT team tried the steel door to the building. "[27] His trial was scheduled for October[28] and finally took place in June 2013 but resulted in a deadlocked jury. The service was held at Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit, a drab cake-shaped megachurch near the Chrysler Freeway. Theyd not been tabulated for four years. She waited, but Sharpton never came. If someone needs a scapegoat for what's happening here - and what's happening here is justice - then put it on me.". [34][35], Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. A fresh trial was scheduled for December 2013,[29] but actually began in September 2014. In this shit, a one-year-old played next door, barefoot. held a small rally in memory of Jones. The police were . 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. There are two elementary schools in the area, both in desperate need of a lawnmower and a can of paint. Outside court, a spokesman for Aiyana's family criticized the judge for her comments. JeRean knew badness was on its way and called his mother to come pick him up. Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights. The bullet struck Aiyana killing her. A dollhouse sits in an empty lot not far from where Aiyana was shot by the police officers storming her home.It was a total fuck-up, the official said. Newspapers made little of ituntil the US Attorney revealed that the federal monitor of the decree was having an affair with the priapic mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was forced to resign, and now sits in prison convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. 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. They were conducting a police raid in search of a murder suspect who lived at that address -- and being filmed for a reality TV show in the process -- when Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally fired his gun. Sarah Cwiek joined Michigan Radio in October 2009. Outside, three men were loading the boiler, tubs, and sinks into a trailer to take to the scrap yard. A few minutes after that, JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, arrived and got behind the wheel of the car that friends had dragged him into. 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. Horace Sheffield, a local version of Sharpton, got stiffed for $4,000 in funeral costs, claiming Aiyanas father made off with the donations people gave to cover it. I would have waited until the morning when the guy went to the liquor store to buy a quart of milk. It would be easy to lay the blame on McNeal for the circumstances in which she raised her sons. 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. They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. 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. On May 21, 2016, nearly six years after Joness death, the Detroit chapter of Black Lives Matter organized the first rally in her memory. First published on January 30, 2015 / 4:13 PM. Then JeRean was murdered. 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. And America is buying. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. The Rev. It all happened in a matter of seconds. Weekley claimed Aiyana Jones' paternal grandmother, Mertilla Jones, attempted to slap his MP5 submachine gun, causing it to fire. A thousand people attended, as did the predictable plump of media. Inside the lower unit of a duplex halfway down the gloomy street, Charles Jones, 25, was pacing, unable to sleep. The blood was congealing into a pancake on the dirty linoleum. 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. [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. Two days later, on May 16, police arrived at the house where Aiyana Jones lived, hoping to find Owens. and Weekley for the unlawful use of excessive force. [12], An A&E reality TV television crew was accompanying the police Special Response Team gathering footage for The First 48. 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. Was Detroit an outlier or an epicenter? Fiegers suburban office is a shrine to Geoffrey Fieger. [31] In June 2013, Howard pleaded "no contest" to the obstruction of justice charge, and the perjury charge was dismissed. In the end, Gibson was charged with Huffs murder and the attempted murders of four more officers. I saw the tape and wrote about its existence after the killing of Aiyana, but the story went nowhere until two months later, when someone in City Hall leaked a copy to the local ABC affiliate. "They said he'll be on parole until 2030, and he or his family can't be around my family. 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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. The madness has to stop, he said. [56] A spokesman for city police demanded that Fieger share the tape's contents with Michigan State Police investigators. Of course I would. Nevertheless, Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans issued a statement May 18. Im trying to find him, Sheffield complained. But there is no money; the struggling school system has a $363 million deficit. Then there is the thought that Detroit is simply a boomtown that went bust the minute Henry Ford began to build it. When I was a teenager, my mother owned a struggling little flower shop on the East Side, not far from where Aiyana was killed. On April 4, 2019, Aiyanas family settled with Detroit for $8.25 million. The flower shop is just a pile of bricks now, but despite what the Arab told me, I did not forget what I saw. On October 4, 2011, a Wayne County grand jury indicted Officer Joseph Weekley for involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. Seconds after entering the house, where the grenade had caused Aiyanas blanket to catch fire, Weekley fired one fatal shot. Outside, Television was watching them. In Michigan, the designation for homicide is actually 750.316 (PDF), but thats just a mouthful of detail. They were restless and agitated and pulled at the collars of dress blues that didnt seem to fit. 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. No Glue or Lace Hiring Black Folks. [CLICK HERE FOR CHARLIE LEDUFFS EXPOSE ON THE DETROIT AMBULANCE SYSTEM. Besides, there was always a job in America when you needed one. Aiyana Jones was 7 when she was killed in a police raid. But I cant accept it because they lied about it. The store bell jingled its little requiem as I pulled the door open. I called the fire department to ask for its statistics. Thats when Owens, 34, pulled up on a moped. That factory closed in 1956 and was left to rot, pulling down the East Side, which pulled down the city. Owens, a habitual criminal, was arrested upstairs minutes after Aiyanas shooting and charged for the slaying of JeRean. 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. "[60], In September 2013, J. Cole published a music video dedicated to Jones for his song Crooked Smile, featuring TLC on YouTube. I wouldnt wish this on nobody in the world. 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.. Casei Jones, 32, and her four children Cameron Bowers, 10, Preston Bowers, 5, Mercalli Jones, 2, and Aiyana Jones, 1, were missing for almost a month. So is the house across the street. 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. 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. 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. She had already cleared a space on the other end of the mantel for Chaises urn. From all indications it appears that police operation were flawed and heavily influenced by camera crews who were filming the raid for A&E's crime show "The First 48," according to a published report. In October, judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed a charge of involuntary manslaughter, citing a lack of evidence. [51] She was buried on the grounds. BlackPast.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and our EIN is 26-1625373. 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/. Sharptons full of shit, said Cargill, a brassy 39-year-old who works as a stock clerk at Target. Dr. Carl Schmidt is the chief medical examiner there. 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 . The ones pictured here are all found on one block. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? Weekleys trial began in June 2013 and ended in a mistrial when a jury failed to reach a verdict. [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". It also allowed a man to escape the smoldering city. Was it death by TV? What I find ironic is a friend of the punks released his video t. [2], After the shot was fired, Weekley reported to his sergeant that a woman inside had grabbed for his gun. Weekley stated, "A woman inside grabbed my gun. The kids are dropping like flies and hes got nothing but useless words., CHECK OUT A SLIDESHOW OF ABANDONED HOUSES ON ONE BLOCK IN DETROIT, join us with a tax-deductible donation today. What the hell you doing up here for? But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. 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