He, too, was about to graduate from Southeastern High. Family: 7-year-old shot by police was asleep. But he doesnt return my calls. Weekley, a member of an elite police unit, was the first officer through the door during a chaotic . Police report that they arrested the suspect at the duplex where the . 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. 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. 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. By civic malfeasance? Inside, toys, Hannah Montana shoes, and a pyramid of KFC cartons were left to rot. Mayor Dave Bing spoke. Danny Wilcox Frazier is a contributing photographer for Mother Jones. Her body was transferred to the Wayne County morgue. Inside the lower unit of a duplex halfway down the gloomy street, Charles Jones, 25, was pacing, unable to sleep. Stanley suddenly emerged from her stupor: Whats that got to do with it? she hissed. Maybe because the cameras were rolling, maybe because a Detroit police officer had been murdered two weeks earlier while trying to apprehend a suspect. Like so many across the country, shes being evicted with no job and no place to go. JeRean balled up his tiny fist. 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. The mortician charged $700 for the most basic viewing casket, even though the body was to be cremated. In 2019, Jones' family agreed to an $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement against the city of Detroit in connection with the raid. May 16, 2010, 7-year-old Aiyana was asleep on her couch, wrapped in her Hannah Montana blanket. The raid happened early Sunday morning. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. [20] He pushed his way inside, protected by a ballistic shield. By wit and will, he managed to make it through. 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. The crime most likely happened at the . Mertilla Jones was held overnight by Detroit police and then released. [42] While Sanders was on the stand, Judge Cynthia Hathaway told her that she (Sanders) was being "disrespectful. [5] Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway presided over the case. On a hot afternoon around one Mothers Day, I was working in the back greenhouse. A retrial began on September 23, 2014 but on October 3, 2014, it was declared a mistrial after a second jury deadlocked on a verdict. Police Chief James Craig stated, "He'll be in a limited duty capacity. Im trying to find him, Sheffield complained. Theyd not been tabulated for four years. Not all of us are blessed.. On April 4, 2019, Aiyanas family settled with Detroit for $8.25 million. [56] A spokesman for city police demanded that Fieger share the tape's contents with Michigan State Police investigators. "I want to say to the entire Jones family, Aiyana's loved ones and friends, how terribly sorry I am for your loss. Clutching his juice in one hand and two dollars in the other, JeRean staggered across Mack Avenue and collapsed in the street. 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. That house, too, is on the citys East Side, a nondescript brick duplex with a crumbling garage whose driveway funnels into busy Schoenherr Road. Once at Aiyanas graveside, Charles Jones released a dove. A total, unfortunate fuck-up.. 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. Suddenly, Detroit was historic, symbolichip, even. I would have waited until the morning when the guy went to the liquor store to buy a quart of milk. Some 45,000 abandoned houses pock Detroit. The mayors office is said to have a copy, as well as the Michigan State Police, who are now handling the investigation. It would be easy to lay the blame on McNeal for the circumstances in which she raised her sons. [32][33] Allison Howard was sentenced to two years of probation in July 2013, and fined $2,000. I think its abominable. Desperation, she said, feels like someones reaching down your throat and ripping out your guts. 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. For instance, in 2008 a man was shot in the head. It was a white cop who killed the girl, but Detroit is Americas largest black city with a black mayor and a black chief of police. Rayshard Brooks was a 27-year-old African American restaurant worker who lived in Atlanta. That factory closed in 1956 and was left to rot, pulling down the East Side, which pulled down the city. The posse allegedly included Aiyanas father, Charles C.J. Jones. what happened to aiyana jones. It is not protocol. 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. 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. He computerized daily crime statistics, created a mobile strike force commanded by young and educated go-getters, and dispatched cops to crime hot spots. The psychopathology of growing up in Detroit, he said. 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. The kids are dropping like fliesespecially young black malesand hes got nothing but useless words.. You should go, he said to me, shattering the silence with a wave of his hand. It was a sweatbox, and I went across the street to the liquor store for a soda pop. Technicians are currently working on the problem. Paramedics say it is routinely much longer. Skyscrapers sprang up virtually overnight. Gibson is a tall, thick-necked man who, like the character Omar from The Wire, made his living robbing dope houses. If you value what you get from Mother Jones, please join us with a tax-deductible donation today so we can keep on doing the type of journalism 2023 demands. 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. The slap caused the gun to fire with the bullets striking young Aiyana in the head and killing her instantly. Weve got nothing but bullet fragments., A neighbor who tends the lawn in front of the dope house out of respect to Huff wonders why so many cops came in the first place, given that the police hardly come around at all, much less that many cops that fast on a home break-in.. Fugitive in $18 million COVID fraud scheme extradited to U.S. ended without verdicts on a charge of reckless use of a gun. Twenty-five-year-old Charles Jones had just gone to bed after covering his 7-year-old daughter Aiyana with her favorite blanket. 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. Outside court, a spokesman for Aiyana's family criticized the judge for her comments. Why would anyone move a gunshot victim, much less toss him in a car? [59], On April 2, 2015, nearly five years following Jones's death, Officer Weekley was returned to active duty as a Detroit police officer. 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. The First 48 photographer Allison Howard was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. Over the next 50 years, Detroits East Side would become the worlds machine shop, its factory floor. The streetlights still go on and off. 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 . In tow was an A&E crew filming an episode of The First 48, its true-crime program. Sharptons full of shit, said JeReans mother. Which is what he was doing at this house, authorities contend, when he put three bullets in Officer Huffs face. 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. But she added: "I hope he does the right thing when he gets outand triesto help these other young Black males out here;tell them about lifeand tell them what he did.". . Inexpensive, too! The manslaughter trial was declared a mistrial. I get no sleep. To me, thats like writing about the surf conditions in the Gaza Strip. Listen on Apple Podcasts. [23] At Weekley's retrial in 2014, it was disclosed that Mertilla's fingerprints were not found on Weekley's gun. They were looking for a murder suspect. The Rust Belt. (Thomas Sugrue, in his seminal book The Origins of the Urban Crisis, writes that residents in Detroits predominantly black lower East Side reported 206 rat bites in 1951 and 1952.). But I cant accept it because they lied about it. Then came the homicide-by-cop of little Aiyana. Oh, stay your ass right here, Owens growled. Sherrors was killed by a stray bullet while cutting a friends hair on a front porch just 27 days after JeRean died. He has three boys with Aiyanas mother, Dominika Stanley, and three boys with another woman, whom he had left long ago. But the fact is Detroit and its suburbs were dying 40 years ago. This is not about policing, he said. A small crowd of agitated black people was gathered on the sidewalk. But the real mystery behind Officer Huffs murder is why Gibson was out on the street in the first place. A slender, pimply faced kid, JeRean was not an intimidating figure. 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. He didn't elaborate. IT MIGHT BE a stretch to see anything more than Detroits problems in Detroits problems. [47], On September 29, Weekley's lawyer asked the judge for a mistrial, citing Mertilla Jones's conduct on the stand the week before. And America is buying. The store bell jingled its little requiem as I pulled the door open. This was the first raid on a house since his death. You might blame postwar industrial policies that sent the factories to the suburbs, the rural South, and the western deserts. JeRean knew badness was on its way and called his mother to come pick him up. 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. The blood was congealing into a pancake on the dirty linoleum. Cole's character, it turns out, is a drug dealer. [48] On January 28, 2015, county prosecutor Kym Worthy dismissed the last remaining charge against Weekley, the misdemeanor of 'careless discharge of a firearm causing death'. They went hog wild. 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. No Glue or Lace Hiring Black Folks. Aiyana was buried in a white casket which was driven to her grave site by a horse-drawn carriage. The Detroit Police Department was in search of a murderer, and mistakenly raided Aiyana's home. 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. People are drinking. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. Oddly enough, that's what supposedly happened to a beautiful 7-year-old girl named Aiyana Jones. 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. Until there wasnt. He had been married eight years and had three daughters and a stepson. What the fuck you looking at?. I called the fire department to ask for its statistics. Inexplicably, its carcass still stands and burns incessantly. 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. I forgive him, but I don't forget what he did.". Seconds after entering the house, where the grenade had caused Aiyanas blanket to catch fire, Weekley fired one fatal shot. [34][35], Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. 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/. 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. But the people of Lillibridge Street still look like theyve been picked up by their hair and dropped from the rooftop. "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. Six individuals, who chained themselves to a Detroit Police Department precinct, were arrested Wednesday evening during a rally honoring Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a 7-year old who was shot and. ME Schmidt ruled it a homicide; the police decided it was a suicide. Weekley will not go to a third trial. 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 killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. Weekley, who retired from the police department in 2019,claimed Mertilla Jones grabbed his rifle, causing it to discharge. 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. School wasnt a priority. I am sick as hell. The department decided to withdraw him from active duty shortly after the shooting on May 16, 2010. As a reporter at the Detroit News, I get plenty of phone calls from people in the neighborhoods. Outside, a reality television crew filmed the events for A&E. 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. [12], An A&E reality TV television crew was accompanying the police Special Response Team gathering footage for The First 48. One ran off. 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 problem once the police start amassing these kinds of weapons and tools and absorb a certain mentality, is it just increases the probability that they are going to deploy it even when not warranted, Edwards says. 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. As Detroit led the nation in median income and homeownership, automation and foreign competition were forcing companies like Packard to shutter their doors. 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. The family is seeking $7.5 million in damages and a jury trial conceded by the court filing. Sharptons full of shit, said Cargill, a brassy 39-year-old who works as a stock clerk at Target. Detroit has since made little progress on the federal consent decree. WHat actually happened to this little girl? Were going to pull people over for traffic violations and were going to take their cars if theyre not legal. Instead of being protected, communities are treated like the enemy, the report found with a disproportionate effect on communities of color. The accident has led to outrage in Detroit, directed at police. "It's irking me so bad," Cargill said. He caught a lunch lady stealing the childrens milk money. But is she responsible for police officers with broken computers in their squad cars, firefighters with holes in their boots, ambulances that arrive late, a city that cant keep its lights on and leaves its vacant buildings to the arsonists match, a state government that allows corpses to stack up in the morgue, multinational corporations that move away and leave poisoned fields behind, judges who let violent criminals walk the streets, school stewards who steal the childrens milk money, elected officials who loot the city, automobile executives who couldnt manage a grocery store, or Wall Street grifters who destroyed the economy and left the nations children with a burden of debt? So there should have been a parade with confetti and tanks of lemonade, but instead, the complaints about overaggressive cops began to roll in. [12] Weekley had been featured on another A&E police reality show, Detroit SWAT. Juries twice failed to reach a verdict in Weekleys case, first in June 2013 and then in October 2014. Thats one less knucklehead driving around looking to do a drive-by., His approach was successful, with murder dropping more than 20 percent in his first year. Word of the free milk and honey made its way down South, and the poor Negros and hillbillies flooded in. The Jones family also sued Weekley and the Detroit Police Department in 2015. About 40 kids were milling around in front of the soft-serve window. Then Huff got killed. 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. But there is no money; the struggling school system has a $363 million deficit. According to reports, seconds after entering the house, Weekley fired the fatal shot. You might point to the trade agreements of the Clinton years, which allowed American manufacturers to leave the country by the back door. 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. On October 10, the second trial ended in another mistrial. According to the police, Officer Joseph Weekley was the first police officer to enter the home. 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. Parts of the Detroit River are now clean enough for swimming. [19], Police officers, bystanders, and residents of the home disagreed about the events that followed. Jarrette Jones and Iyanna McNeely. / AP. 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. About 350 people are murdered each year in Detroit. She later went to nursing school but got sidetracked by her own health problems. DETROITS EAST SIDE is now the poorest, most violent quarter of Americas poorest, most violent big city. Barry, who said he had been gassed and maced and had guns pointed at him while attending demonstrations, including in Ferguson, Missouri, said the militarization of police was part of a long history and heritage of crackdown on communities of color in America, including the post-9/11 crackdown on Muslim and Arab communities. [12], According to press reports, police were on the scene by 12:40a.m. on Sunday, May 16, 2010. Little Aiyana's death is heartbreaking! [51] She was buried on the grounds. They threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of the lower unit and kicked open its wooden door, which was also unlocked. You might blame Coleman Youngthe citys first black mayorand his culture of cronyism. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Im alive. His motive, authorities say, was that the teen failed to pay him the proper respect. Specifically, since 1997 a 1033 program has enabled the transferring of billions of dollars worth of military equipment from the Department of Defense including mine-resistant protected vehicles originally developed by the South African defence force to thousands of small American communities. 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. The jury stall resulted in seven voting "not guilty" and five voting "guilty". Owens was convicted of first-degree murderand sentenced to life in prison. She denied grabbing the weapon. Have him call me, and then hung up the phone. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket.. JeRean knew badness was on its way and called his mother to come pick him up. Look at the Trending Topics on Twitter. [36] Aiyana's case would be the longest presiding case that Hathaway had in more than 20 years of being on the bench. and Weekley for the unlawful use of excessive force. When I moved back to Detroit two years ago, I profiled a firehouse on the East Side. People are awake. I think its evil. 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. 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. Do you find this information helpful? Thats how its supposed to be done.. Southeasterns motto is Age Quod Agis: Attend to Your Business. And JeRean did. 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). Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. An investigation was promised. Seconds after Aiyana's blanket caught fire, the SWAT team stormed through the door, and mistakenly shot Aiyana through the neck, killing her. And during our conversation, he referred to himself in the third personGeoffrey Fieger. He was shot in the head and killed last year. In October 2011, he was charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. They turned on the lights and saw that she had been shot.. "[27] His trial was scheduled for October[28] and finally took place in June 2013 but resulted in a deadlocked jury. The hospital was six miles away. The frightened black man attempted to save himself. Sometimes they come in a Crown Victoria with only a defibrillator and a blanket, because there are no other units available. 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. 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. The radio was tuned to NPR and A Prairie Home Companion came warbling out of my speakers. People involved. He won't be in the field. Nor is corruption a black or liberal thing. War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing. As it turns out, he was filming a pilot for his own reality show, entitled The Chief. Her parents say they hope Aiyana will be remembered as more than a symbol of heightened tension in a city in crisis. Today75 years after the beavers disappeared from the Detroit RiverDetroitism means something completely different. A half-dozen masked officers of the Special Response TeamDetroits version of SWATwere at the door, guns drawn. The judge denied the motion for mistrial, saying she believed the jury could still be "impartial." 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. 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. February 24, 2023. Then Evans own driver shot a man last October. The camera crew was not inside the house when the girl was hit. Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. The case garnered national headlines for all of the obvious reasons: an innocent child caught in police crosshairs, another black life taken in a city filled with heartache. JEREAN BLAKE NOBLES was one of the rare black males in Detroit who made it (PDF) through high school. The family of a 7-year-old who was fatally shot during a botched raid in 2010 is suing Detroit police, alleging officers lied about how she was killed as part of a cover-up. The Detroit Free Press has more details here. On May 21, 2016, nearly six years after Joness death, the Detroit chapter of Black Lives Matter organized the first rally in her memory. Inside, splayed on the floor underneath the rack of snack cakes near the register, was a black man in a pool of blood. I lingered a moment, backing out while taking it in: the bracelet, the liquor, the blood, the gun, the Ho-Hos, the cheapness of it all. She arrived too late. 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