[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. I went to visit Cargill, who lived just around the way. There was no note. In this way, what happened to J Cole's daughter? 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. This was the first raid on a house since his death. As a reporter at the Detroit News, I get plenty of phone calls from people in the neighborhoods. 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. Shoddily equipped firemen face some 500 arsons a month.Detroit has been synonymous with arson since the 80s, when the city burst into flames in a pre-Halloween orgy of fire and destruction known as Devils Night. The bullet struck Aiyana killing her. By wit and will, he managed to make it through. [5] Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway presided over the case. Forget what you saw, little man. As it turns out, he was filming a pilot for his own reality show, entitled The Chief. I can accept the shooting was a mistake, Jones said about his daughters death as a bleary-eyed Stanley sat motionless next to him. Outside, three men were loading the boiler, tubs, and sinks into a trailer to take to the scrap yard. Police Chief James Craig stated, "He'll be in a limited duty capacity. In Detroit, the official response time of an ambulance to a 911 call is 12 minutes. The raid happened early Sunday morning. Except there aint no job. Weekley left the courtroom through a private door. The auto industry allowed for sprawl. On May 21, 2016, nearly six years after Joness death, the Detroit chapter of Black Lives Matter organized the first rally in her memory. The case had been set to go to trial next week. In 2010 Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, a seven-year-old African American girl, was accidentally shot and killed during a raid that was conducted by the Detroit, Michigan Police Department's Special Response Team. [12], Owens was later found guilty of Blake's murder. By 1958, 20 percent of the Detroit workforce was jobless. 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. JEREAN BLAKE NOBLES was one of the rare black males in Detroit who made it (PDF) through high school. We believe today's settlement is fair because it balances the needs of Aiyana's family and our responsibility for the city's finances. 91.3 Port Huron 89.7 Lansing 91.1 Flint. He came here for publicity. 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. If he didn't give him the gun, they feel like their brother would still be alive, and Aiyana would still be alive.". They were looking for a murder suspect. The posse allegedly included Aiyanas father, Charles C.J. Jones. The whole country knew it, and the whole country laughed. Im stuck. Aiyana Jones was 7 when she was killed in a police raid. "[60], In September 2013, J. Cole published a music video dedicated to Jones for his song Crooked Smile, featuring TLC on YouTube. That is, until someone realized that the schools are controlled by rival gangs. Soon, the Motor Citys population surpassed that of Boston and Baltimore, old East Coast port cities founded on maritime shipping when the world moved by boat. Its going to stop, he promised. Ive seen him in the faces of soldiers when I was covering the Iraq War. Police report that they arrested the suspect at the duplex where the . You might blame postwar industrial policies that sent the factories to the suburbs, the rural South, and the western deserts. An Arab family owned the store, and one of the menthe one with the pocked face and loud voicewas talking on the telephone, but I remember no sounds. [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. Two trials against Officer Joseph Weekley ended without verdicts on a charge of reckless use of a gun. She looked at her barefoot grandson playing in the wreckage of the dwelling next door and wondered if he would make it to manhood. It just goes on, she said. A small donation would help us keep this available to all. Then JeRean was murdered. His motive, authorities say, was that the teen failed to pay him the proper respect. Aiyana Jones was a seven year old girl living in Detroit, who was killed by the police while sleeping in her own home. If youre a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.. He didn't elaborate. In 2010, a 7-year-old girl, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was slaughtered during a police raid of her home in Detroit. Was it inevitable, as the doctor said, that abject poverty would lead to Aiyanas death and so many others? While other American metropolises have gotten control of their murder rate, Detroits remains where it was during the crack epidemic. 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. 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. 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. Her body was transferred to the Wayne County morgue. 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. Today, reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget, allows us to dig deep on stories that matter, and lets us keep our reporting free for everyone. Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.. Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. The accident has led to outrage in Detroit, directed at police. But the people of Lillibridge Street still look like theyve been picked up by their hair and dropped from the rooftop. I want to get out of here, but I cant, she said. And there are. There were even toys on the lawn. Officers deployeda "flash bang" grenadeand kicked in the front door, and raid team leader Joseph Weekley led the crewinto the house. 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. 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. Testifying at the New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church.Stand at the corner of Lillibridge Street and Mack Avenue and walk a mile in each direction from Alter Road to Gratiot Avenue (pronounced Gra-shit). The day I visited, a Hollywood starlet (PDF) was tailing the doctor, studying for her role as the medical examiner in ABCs new Detroit-based murder drama Detroit 1-8-7. It would be easy to lay the blame on McNeal for the circumstances in which she raised her sons. 20072023 Blackpast.org. 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. On October 4, 2011, a Wayne County grand jury indicted Officer Joseph Weekley for involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. But pollution didnt kill Detroit. [9][10] Owens didn't like the way the Southeastern High School teen had looked at him, according to court testimony. The jury stall resulted in seven voting "not guilty" and five voting "guilty". The SWAT team tried the steel door to the building. When I was a teenager, my mother owned a struggling little flower shop on the East Side, not far from where Aiyana was killed. Detroit grew restless. The change to "Murder of Aiyana Jones" may have been disputed for good reason, but the current one is both neutral and standard (see Death of Ian Tomlinson). Dr. Carl Schmidt is the chief medical examiner there. In October 2011, he was charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. Two days later, on May 16, police arrived at the house where Aiyana Jones lived, hoping to find Owens. The house next door to his is rubble smelling of burnt pine, pissed on by the spray cans of the East Warren Crips. AS SUMMER DRAGGED on, the story of Aiyana faded from even the regional press. Blame the Federal Reserve. Add in the fact that half the police precincts were closed in 2005 for budgetary reasons, and the crime lab was closed two years ago due to ineptitude, and it might explain why five of the nine members of the city council carry a firearm. According to the police, Officer Joseph Weekley was the first police officer to enter the home. [39], On October 3, the judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Weekley. About 40 kids were milling around in front of the soft-serve window. Weekley will not go to a third trial. 91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids 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. The car made Detroit, and the car unmade Detroit. Evans told me then that major crimes were routinely underreported by 20 percent. By police incompetence? . Weekley, 38, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death, a misdemeanor in the death of Aiyana. 2023 www.detroitnews.com. [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 ones pictured here are all found on one block. Weekleys trial began in June 2013 and ended in a mistrial when a jury failed to reach a verdict. Its always like that. Weekley claimed Aiyana Jones' paternal grandmother, Mertilla Jones, attempted to slap his MP5 submachine gun, causing it to fire. He said. As Officer Weekley wept on the sidewalk, Aiyana was rushed to the trauma table, where she was pronounced dead. These girls are the lucky ones. In Michigan, the designation for homicide is actually 750.316 (PDF), but thats just a mouthful of detail. 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. Rayshard Brooks was a 27-year-old African American restaurant worker who lived in Atlanta. Then came the homicide-by-cop of little Aiyana. [12] She was one of three children of the couple and had four halfsiblings. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket.. Inside, toys, Hannah Montana shoes, and a pyramid of KFC cartons were left to rot. Over the next 50 years, Detroits East Side would become the worlds machine shop, its factory floor. Were going to pull people over for traffic violations and were going to take their cars if theyre not legal. "He has completed various programming and is active in vocational training. On January 28, 2015, the remaining charge on Weekley, a misdemeanor for careless discharge of a firearm causing death, was dismissed. These Wigs Install in Seconds. [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. 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. Gibson is a tall, thick-necked man who, like the character Omar from The Wire, made his living robbing dope houses. Was Aiyana's legal last name "Jones", "Stanley Jones", or "Stanley-Jones"? Murder suspect Chauncey Louis Owens, the target of the raid, will be charged. Aiyana Jones' step aunt Kayia White and step mom Dominique Simpson, right, sit on the front porch next to a blood spattered sofa in Detroit on . A thousand people attended, as did the predictable plump of media. People taking advanage of my benevolence. People my mothers age like to tell me about Detroits good old days of soda fountains and shopping markets and lazy Saturday night drives. Two years later he was sentenced to an additional 12 months for violating . Uncategorized. Were taking whats left.. The family of a 7-year-old girl who was fatally shot during a May 2010 police raid is suing the Detroit officer involved in the incident, Detroit News reports.. [39][40], On the second day of trial, September 24, LaKrystal Sanders, who lived on the upper floor of the house where Aiyana was killed, testified. His weapon fired a single shot, the bullet striking Aiyana in the head and exiting her neck. 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. 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. Do a Google search for "Aiyana Jones" and you get just 42,200 results. 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. The First 48 photographer Allison Howard was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. The Detroit City Council needs to approve the settlement. But McNeal messed upshe admits as much. BlackPast.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and our EIN is 26-1625373. 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. On Thursday, a settlement was made in the lawsuit that amounted to $8.25 being paid out. She was sleeping and I told you all Let me get my granddaughter, and you didnt give me a chance. We believe some of them were struck by friendly fire, the high-ranking cop told me. I dont want no apology from no police. Assistant prosecutor Rob Moran told the judge that the misdemeanor was being dropped in the "best interests of justice." On January 28, 2015, a prosecutor cleared Weekley of the last remaining charge against him, ensuring there would not be a third trial. 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. In tow was an A&E crew filming an episode of The First 48, its true-crime program. The family is seeking $7.5 million in damages and a jury trial conceded by the court filing. Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones was asleep on the sofa when a police SWAT team hurled a flash-bang grenade into the apartment and smashed the front door down. DETROITS EAST SIDE is now the poorest, most violent quarter of Americas poorest, most violent big city. As for the struggles of a generation of living people, the murder of a hundred children, they ask me: Whats new in that?. The morning after he was shot, Chaises clippers were mysteriously deposited on his front porch, wiped clean and free of hair. Police fired a flash grenade through the front window. Jones does not have a release date identified, although he could be freed as early as Thursday, Gautz said. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley stands in judge Cynthia Hathaways courtroom in Detroit, in June 2013. Over 10 years ago, Detroit police executed a nighttime raid at a home on the city's east side in search of a murder suspect. Jones was arrested, and though she was quickly released it was not before she and two other family members Aiyanas parents had been forced to sit in their childs blood for hours, Scott said. Then there is the thought that Detroit is simply a boomtown that went bust the minute Henry Ford began to build it. What happened after that is a matter of conjecture, as Detroit officials have had problems getting their stories straight. They had time, a Detroit police detective told me. 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. Why would anyone move a gunshot victim, much less toss him in a car? 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. You should go, he said to me, shattering the silence with a wave of his hand. In the process, the gun belonging to police officer Joseph Weekley . They made it to the trauma ward, where JeRean was pronounced dead. For community members and advocates, the bigger question is why a Swat team was deployed in the first place. 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. But the SWAT team didnt wait. Evans driver dropped him with a single shot. Radley Balko | 5.24.2010 3:00 PM. David Corn, Noah Lanard, and Dan Friedman. Take for instance the death of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was shot and killed during a police raid at their Detroit home. He computerized daily crime statistics, created a mobile strike force commanded by young and educated go-getters, and dispatched cops to crime hot spots. 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. The water in the Detroit River was so bad, it was said you could bottle it and sell it as poison. As recently as this week, Fieger said in a press release, thatto date, theCity of Detroithas refused to participate in good faith in any resolution regarding Aiyana's death and continue to deny the family justice. It is not protocol. Barry, who has been active in demonstrations against police violence and whose organization has mounted a formal campaign to demilitarize the police, said there were two separate justice systems in the US. At its peak popularity, 810 fires were set in a three-day span. He, too, was about to graduate from Southeastern High. A good kid who showed neighborhood children how to work electric clippers, his dream was to open a barbershop. Inside the lower unit of a duplex halfway down the gloomy street, Charles Jones, 25, was pacing, unable to sleep. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. Jones, 25, a slight man with frizzy braids, wore a dingy T-shirt. It fired. Family: 7-year-old shot by police was asleep. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. AIYANAS FAMILY retained Geoffrey Fieger, the flamboyant, brass-knuckled lawyer who represented Dr. Jack Kevorkiana.k.a. 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