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. [31] In June 2013, Howard pleaded "no contest" to the obstruction of justice charge, and the perjury charge was dismissed. Responding to a breaking-and-entering and shots-fired call at 3:30 a.m., Officer Brian Huff, a 12-year veteran, walked into that dark house. In the witness box in September, Jones said: Im laying there screaming, asking someone to help my granddaughter because he shot her in the head. I cant heal properly because of it. 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. Thats when Owens, 34, pulled up on a moped. A woman was in his car, the motor running. 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. 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 conceit of the show is that homicide detectives have 48 hours to crack a murder case before the trail goes cold. Sanders was Aiyana Jones's paternal aunt, the girlfriend of Chauncey Owens, and the daughter of Mertilla Jones. I stared through the windshield at the little boy in the diaper playing amid the ruins, reached over, and switched it off. Weekley was transferred from the Special Response Team to the Criminal Investigations Bureau. Cole's character, it turns out, is a drug dealer. I think its one of the lowest things I have ever seen.. For instance, in 2008 a man was shot in the head. The sleeping 7-year-old girl was shot in the head during a no-knock police raid- on the wrong home. I have . Officials said Gibson ran out the front of the house. 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 Rev. The auto industry allowed for sprawl. It feels like there aint no love no more.. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley is accused of fatally shooting Aiyana during the raid that targeted a murder suspect. Outside, three men were loading the boiler, tubs, and sinks into a trailer to take to the scrap yard. 2:45 Detroit Charles Jones, whose role in a high school student's 2010 slaying helped spark the police raid that ended with the officer-involved shooting death of his 7-year-old daughter. There were even toys on the lawn. On his desk is a bronze bust of Geoffrey Fieger. The lawsuit asserts that police were outside of the home where they "blindly fired random shots," and one of the bullets fatally struck the 7-year-old child in the neck. The victim, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was shot in the head while she slept on a couch in May 2010. 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. That night, she was murdered by the very people meant to "protect" and "serve" her. [49], Aiyana Jones' funeral was held in the Second Ebenezer Church on May 22, 2010 in Detroit. There are some 10,000 unsolved homicides dating back to 1960. He might have smirked. A half-dozen masked officers of the Special Response TeamDetroits version of SWATwere at the door, guns drawn. Was Aiyana's legal last name "Jones", "Stanley Jones", or "Stanley-Jones"? It's now Monday at 10:30pm. The slap caused the gun to fire with the bullets striking young Aiyana in the head and killing her instantly. Its police disinformation.. A small crowd of agitated black people was gathered on the sidewalk. She thanked me for coming and showed me her home, which was clean and well kept. 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. The flower shop is just a pile of bricks now, but despite what the Arab told me, I did not forget what I saw. [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. You might blame the 1967 race riot and the white flight that followed. Then, realizing that sounded implausible, they said shed brushed the gun as she ran past the door. Moreover, the Detroit public school system is the worst performer in the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests, with nearly 80 percent of eighth-graders unable to do basic math. Your donation is fully tax-deductible. Danny Wilcox Frazier is a contributing photographer for Mother Jones. By police incompetence? Once at Aiyanas graveside, Charles Jones released a dove. Short answer: Yesand no. 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. Wage growth is slowing. If someone needs a scapegoat for what's happening here - and what's happening here is justice - then put it on me.". Tens of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands. Forget what you saw, little man. We hope this resolution will provide everyone involved a measure of closure," Detroit Corporation Counsel Lawrence Garcia said in a statement, according to the Detroit News. And he wouldnt even help her. Funeral for Chaise Sherrors, JeReans best friend. Southeasterns motto is Age Quod Agis: Attend to Your Business. And JeRean did. Legal name. Aiyana Stanley-Jones, pictured in family photograph. 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. Weekley, who retired from the police department in 2019,claimed Mertilla Jones grabbed his rifle, causing it to discharge. 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. Charlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, filmmaker, and multimedia reporter. I dont want no apology from no police. 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 . The crime most likely happened at the . He is charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a. The service was held at Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit, a drab cake-shaped megachurch near the Chrysler Freeway. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. But defense attorney Steve Fishman says Jones has no credibility because she's told different stories about what happened. You know? 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. Today75 years after the beavers disappeared from the Detroit RiverDetroitism means something completely different. Soon, the air was the color of a filthy dishrag. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. Detroit grew restless. 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. At the center of this economic dynamo was Detroit. His work has appeared in Time, Life, and Newsweek. As officer Joseph Weekley walks free, another community is demanding answers about the increasing militarisation of law enforcement. 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/. I got something for you.. It fired. Police officers came from Canada and across Michigan. The Detroit Police Department was in search of a murderer, and mistakenly raided Aiyana's home. . He got paid exactly what he was supposed to be paid.. Its easy in our anger, our rage, to just vent and scream. The raid took place at about 12:30 a.m. AIYANAS FAMILY retained Geoffrey Fieger, the flamboyant, brass-knuckled lawyer who represented Dr. Jack Kevorkiana.k.a. I saw him in the face of my sister, who died a violent death in a filthy section of Detroit a decade ago. Killing of Aiyana Jones. The madness has to stop, he said. What the hell you doing up here for? She looked at her barefoot grandson playing in the wreckage of the dwelling next door and wondered if he would make it to manhood. The story rated three paragraphs in the daily papers, and the media never followed up. The frightened black man attempted to save himself. Scott said a civil suit had been filed and an appeal made to US attorney general Eric Holder to pursue a case for the violation of Aiyanas civil rights. 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. Then Huff got killed. The radio was tuned to NPR and A Prairie Home Companion came warbling out of my speakers. There are plenty of good people in Detroit, boosters like to say. In 2010, a 7-year-old girl, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, was slaughtered during a police raid of her home in Detroit. [12] At the time of the incident Aiyana Jones was asleep on the couch in front room of the downstairs apartment. The title is derived from the California penal code for murder: 187. I called the fire department to ask for its statistics. They drove her there every morning, five miles. . The graduation rate for Detroit schoolkids hovers around 35 percent (PDF). No Glue or Lace Hiring Black Folks. 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. [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. Then JeRean was murdered. As Detroit led the nation in median income and homeownership, automation and foreign competition were forcing companies like Packard to shutter their doors.