Two days later, a crew from the Detroit Police Special Response Team raided Jones' house on Lillibridge Street, blocks from the store. 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. It is not protocol. 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. FEMAIL reveals what has happened to . [2], After a one-year internal and federal investigation, on October 4, 2011, a grand jury indicted Weekley on involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. The accident has led to outrage in Detroit, directed at police. Evans driver dropped him with a single shot. Inexplicably, its carcass still stands and burns incessantly. I stared through the windshield at the little boy in the diaper playing amid the ruins, reached over, and switched it off. 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. "(Jones is) the one who gave (Owens) the gun to kill their brother. [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. Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones for just $14.95. Instead of being protected, communities are treated like the enemy, the report found with a disproportionate effect on communities of color. 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. So there should have been a parade with confetti and tanks of lemonade, but instead, the complaints about overaggressive cops began to roll in. He is charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a. He won't be in the field. The First 48 photographer Allison Howard was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. In the process, the gun belonging to police officer Joseph Weekley . "[60], In September 2013, J. Cole published a music video dedicated to Jones for his song Crooked Smile, featuring TLC on YouTube. But if it wasnt for them, the city population would have sunk further than it did. I think its one of the lowest things I have ever seen.. The bullet struck Aiyana killing her. His eyes and mouth were open and held that milky expression of a drunk who has fallen asleep with his eyes open. "We had to do it by paperwork, and they read the letters from my side of the family (during the parole hearing)," Cargill 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. Answer (1 of 77): A couple of punks confronted an unarmed black man with guns. At its peak popularity, 810 fires were set in a three-day span. As Detroit led the nation in median income and homeownership, automation and foreign competition were forcing companies like Packard to shutter their doors. . Ive seen him in the faces of soldiers when I was covering the Iraq War. 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. The story smelled to high heaven from the beginning. They were restless and agitated and pulled at the collars of dress blues that didnt seem to fit. It was 12:40 am on Sunday, May 16, 2010. Folks want to blame Aiyana's "crime ridden" neighborhood for her death. In October 2011, he was charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. As far-fetched as what happened to the Joneses may sound, they are not . Judge Hathaway emphasized that two juries, in 2013 and 2014, couldn't reach a unanimous verdict. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. The slap caused the gun to fire with the bullets striking young Aiyana in the head and killing her instantly. Weekley was transferred from the Special Response Team to the Criminal Investigations Bureau. 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. The Rev. Even if you check the TT's of each city Aiyana is nowhere to . All rights reserved. He became a horrifying statisticone of 103 kids and teens murdered between January 2009 and July 2010. Terms of Service apply. 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. I know society looks at a person like me and wants me to go away, she said. The Detroit chapter of the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) and Black Lives Matter Detroit organized the rally on what would have been her 14th birthday. He had been married eight years and had three daughters and a stepson. [36] Aiyana's case would be the longest presiding case that Hathaway had in more than 20 years of being on the bench. A slender, pimply faced kid, JeRean was not an intimidating figure. Can she be blamed for that? It's now Monday at 10:30pm. Its always like that. 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. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. On October 4, 2011, a Wayne County grand jury indicted Officer Joseph Weekley for involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. People my mothers age like to tell me about Detroits good old days of soda fountains and shopping markets and lazy Saturday night drives. It all happened in a matter of seconds. Now, Jones family attorney Geoffrey Fieger and the city of Detroit confirm theyve settled the case for $8.25 million. 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. Go. He wore a gold bracelet as thick as a gymnasium rope. 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. AIYANAS FAMILY retained Geoffrey Fieger, the flamboyant, brass-knuckled lawyer who represented Dr. Jack Kevorkiana.k.a. [5] Charlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, filmmaker, and multimedia reporter. Desperation, she said, feels like someones reaching down your throat and ripping out your guts. 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.". Weekley insisted he accidentally pulled the trigger during a struggle with Aiyana's grandmother. They had time, a Detroit police detective told me. 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. Jones pleaded guilty tosecond-degree murder and was sentenced to40-60 years, although in 2017 the Michigan Court of Appeals granted him a new trial. 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. The hospital was six miles away. And now that the papers do cover Detroit, boosters complain about a lack of balance. More than 4,000 people attended Officer Huffs funeral at the Greater Grace Temple on the citys Northwest Side. The Detroit Police Department was in search of a murderer, and mistakenly raided Aiyana's home. The appellatecourt ruledthe presiding judge in Jones'case hadn'tadequately answered jurors' questionsduring deliberations. held a small rally in memory of Jones. But he doesnt return my calls. He was shot in the head and killed last year. 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. Fiegers suburban office is a shrine to Geoffrey Fieger. Owens didn't like the way the Southeastern High School teen had looked at him, according to court testimony. The kids are dropping like fliesespecially young black malesand hes got nothing but useless words.. But Geoffrey Fieger calls it police arrogance. It regards itself as the temple of a new gospel of progress, to which I shall venture to give the name of Detroitism.. Over the next 50 years, Detroits East Side would become the worlds machine shop, its factory floor. [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. On Thursday, a settlement was made in the lawsuit that amounted to $8.25 being paid out. [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. In 2019, Jones' family agreed to an $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement against the city of Detroit in connection with the raid. 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. I got no money. 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. Jones and two other men known as Lil James and Dirt rode along for JeReans ass-whipping. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? Detroit VA hospital harmed patients, altered records, investigation reveals, $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. AS SUMMER DRAGGED on, the story of Aiyana faded from even the regional press. Stanley suddenly emerged from her stupor: Whats that got to do with it? she hissed. It feels like there aint no love no more.. 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). ], My baby, my baby, my baby. 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 . But JeRean never went to prom, much less the Afghanistan theater, because he couldnt clear the killing fields of Detroit. (And that statistic is true; I checked.). 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. 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. 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. [32][33] Allison Howard was sentenced to two years of probation in July 2013, and fined $2,000. On January 28, 2015, the remaining charge on Weekley, a misdemeanor for careless discharge of a firearm causing death, was dismissed. Weekley stated, "A woman inside grabbed my gun. I got something for you.. Owens sped two blocks back to Lillibridge and gathered up a posse, according to his statement to 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. But police officials have refused to discuss how one got shot in the foot. WRSX 91.3 Port Huron is off the air due to network issues. January 7, 2022 . Thats how its supposed to be done.. 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. If youre a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.. Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.. Someone radioed in, and more police arrivedbut the official story of what happened that night has changed repeatedly. Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. But our ammos so bad, we cant do ballistics testing. Aiyana was buried in a white casket which was driven to her grave site by a horse-drawn carriage. Protestors pleaded for the termination of Officer Weekley as he had been selected to co-chair the Detroit Police Department's Committee on Race and Equality. [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. But pollution didnt kill Detroit. Detroit grew restless. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. Was Detroit an outlier or an epicenter? The silent suffering.. 2023 www.detroitnews.com. The presence of children in the house was known. Its about state-sanctioned violence., US police departments are increasingly militarised, finds report, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. A thousand people attended, as did the predictable plump of media. 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. 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. 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. The Detroit City Council needs to approve the settlement. Owens got there first and shot JeRean clear through the chest with Lil James gun. 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. No weapons were found on ANY person in the house after the raid, including Charles Jones and Aiyana's mother Dominika, Aiyana and her two toddler brothers, Mertilla Jones and her sister, and two adult cousins of Charles. 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. There are some 10,000 unsolved homicides dating back to 1960. If he didn't give him the gun, they feel like their brother would still be alive, and Aiyana would still be alive.". But defense attorney Steve Fishman says Jones has no credibility because she's told different stories about what happened. 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. For community members and advocates, the bigger question is why a Swat team was deployed in the first place. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket.. A few minutes after that, JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, arrived and got behind the wheel of the car that friends had dragged him into. Thats good news until you realize that in Detroit, some 500 fires are set every single month. . 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. On January 28, 2015, a prosecutor cleared Weekley of the last remaining charge against him, ensuring there would not be a third trial. Juries twice failed to reach a verdict in Weekleys case, first in June 2013 and then in October 2014. 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. Wage growth is slowing. [41] 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. . Im stuck. You know? Much of the firefighters equipment was substandard: Their boots had holes; they were alerted to fires by fax from the central office. About 350 people are murdered each year in Detroit. The judge said she's willing to be the "scapegoat" if critics don't like the result. 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. A bunch of lazy, uneducated blue-collar incompetents. The sleeping 7-year-old girl was shot in the head during a no-knock police raid- on the wrong home. 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. 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. Then Huff got killed. But I cant accept it because they lied about it. Later that day, Detroit Police identified Chauncey Owens as a suspect in the shooting and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Robert Bobb was hired in 2009 as the emergency financial manager and given sweeping powers to balance the books. Thats when Owens, 34, pulled up on a moped. A seven-year-old Black girl was fatally during a raid in Detroit, Michigan Police Department in 2010. As Officer Weekley wept on the sidewalk, Aiyana was rushed to the trauma table, where she was pronounced dead. February 24, 2023. A fresh trial was scheduled for December 2013,[29] but actually began in September 2014. The graduation rate for Detroit schoolkids hovers around 35 percent (PDF). 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 floor above Jones' on May 16, 2010. A man called me once to say he had witnessed a murder, but the police refused to take his statement. And America is buying. [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". [15], The building was a duplex; Owens's girlfriend LaKrysta Sanders lived in the upstairs apartment, while her mother and Aiyana Jones' grandmother, Mertilla Jones, lived in the downstairs apartment. The smell was beastly. Completed in 1917, the school, attended by white students at the time, was considered so far out in the wilds that its athletic teams took the nickname Jungaleers.. It's hurting me. But the fact is Detroit and its suburbs were dying 40 years ago. These girls are the lucky ones. The victim, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was shot in the head while she slept on a couch in May 2010. "She's not a scapegoat. [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. What the hell you doing up here for? Then JeRean was murdered. 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. His work has appeared in Time, Life, and Newsweek. 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.. Fugitive in $18 million COVID fraud scheme extradited to U.S. ended without verdicts on a charge of reckless use of a gun. We believe some of them were struck by friendly fire, the high-ranking cop told me. Was it death by TV? Legal name. But the SWAT team didnt wait. I went to visit Cargill, who lived just around the way. Furthermore, the police department and unnamed supervisors of the Special Response Team in the city of Detroit were being sued for violating the civil rights of Aiyana Jones through their training and policy procedure. 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