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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 city reached a peak population of 1.9 million people in the 1950s, and it was 83 percent white. I know society looks at a person like me and wants me to go away, she said. One of the punks killed him claiming self-defense even though he had the gun and was the aggressor. Jones and two other men known as Lil James and Dirt rode along for JeReans ass-whipping. Aiyanas pink-robed body was carried away by a horse-drawn carriage to the Trinity Cemetery, the same carriage that five years earlier had taken the body of Rosa Parks to Woodlawn Cemetery on the citys West Side. Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy, though his heart did not seem to be in it. I called the fire department to ask for its statistics. So what? Fieger barked. Both trials ended with hung juries. All rights reserved. February 24, 2023. Sharptons full of shit, said Cargill, a brassy 39-year-old who works as a stock clerk at Target. On October 4, 2011, a Wayne County grand jury indicted Officer Joseph Weekley for involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. The crime most likely happened at the . Then, realizing that sounded implausible, they said shed brushed the gun as she ran past the door. Technicians are currently working on the problem. He is charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a. ME Schmidt ruled it a homicide; the police decided it was a suicide. What the fuck you looking at?. A small donation would help us keep this available to all. "He has completed various programming and is active in vocational training. 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.. [39], On October 3, the judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Weekley. Weekley, a member of an elite police unit, was the first officer through the door during a chaotic . It was a sweatbox, and I went across the street to the liquor store for a soda pop. Lord Jesus, I ain't never seen nothing like that in my life."--Mertilla Jones, Aiyana's grandmother. I got no money. Bobb did uncover graft and fraud and waste, however. 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. Wage growth is slowing. 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. Seconds after entering the house, where the grenade had caused Aiyanas blanket to catch fire, Weekley fired one fatal shot. Other auto plants sprang up on the East Side: Packard, Studebaker, Chryslers Dodge Main. It was unlocked. Tens of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands. The walls are covered with photographs of Geoffrey Fieger. Another cruiser with two officers responded as well. 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 landlord of the duplex, Edward Taylor, let me into the Jones apartment. The bullet struck Aiyana killing her. As for the struggles of a generation of living people, the murder of a hundred children, they ask me: Whats new in that?. So is the house across the street. But it was dark. As far-fetched as what happened to the Joneses may sound, they are not . Detroit has since made little progress on the federal consent decree. Funeral for Chaise Sherrors, JeReans best friend. Outside, a reality television crew filmed the events for A&E. [20] He pushed his way inside, protected by a ballistic shield. Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley in court in Detroit, Mich. on June 18, 2013 during his first trial. He admitted in his first trial that, "It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl. The killing contributed to raising national awareness of the ongoing issue of young unarmed African Americans being killed by police. Weekley insisted he accidentally pulled the trigger during a struggle with Aiyana's grandmother. No one can answer that fully. A member of JROTC, he was on his way to the military recruitment office after senior prom and commencement. [12], Owens was later found guilty of Blake's murder. Then she introduced me to her 14-year-old son DeErion, whose remains sat in an urn on the mantel. Lyvonne Cargill wears a shirt that honors her son, JeRean Blake Nobles. It was 12:40 am on Sunday, May 16, 2010. Sometimes they come in a Crown Victoria with only a defibrillator and a blanket, because there are no other units available. 91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit 104.1 Grand Rapids 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. But Officer Joseph Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana in the head, killing her. Jones new family had been on the drift for the past few years as he tried to pull it together. Why you do this to me? 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 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. For that he was given simple probation. Gibson bonded out last January and actually showed up for his trial in circuit court on February 17. Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, 7, died May 16, 2010 after being shot by an officer during a police raid in Detroit. . AIYANA WAS LAID TO REST six days after her killing. Thats a hell of a pair of bookends, I offered. The suspect fingered for Blakes murder, Chauncey Owens, lived in the upstairs flat, with Charles Jones sister. Three ISO members describe what happened when a neo-Nazi . Weekley, who retired from the police department in 2019,claimed Mertilla Jones grabbed his rifle, causing it to discharge. And he wouldnt even help her. 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. All Rights Reserved. Forget what you saw, little man. The sad and confusing circumstances of the murders of JeRean Blake and Officer Huff, both black, robbed Sharpton of some of his customary indignation. In August 2014, he was convicted and sentenced to a year in prison on four counts, including false imprisonment and felony cruelty to children. African American History: Research Guides & Websites, Global African History: Research Guides & Websites, African American Scientists and Technicians of the Manhattan Project, Envoys, Diplomatic Ministers, & Ambassadors, Foundation, Organization, and Corporate Supporters. "(Jones is) the one who gave (Owens) the gun to kill their brother. [4], Officer Joseph Weekley was charged in connection with Jones' killing. Ive seen him in the faces of soldiers when I was covering the Iraq War. 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. Terms of Service apply. 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 case had been set to go to trial next week. We noticed you have an ad blocker on. IT MIGHT BE a stretch to see anything more than Detroits problems in Detroits problems. Southeasterns motto is Age Quod Agis: Attend to Your Business. And JeRean did. Whenever I see a person who died of violence or misadventure, I think about the dead man with the open eyes on the dirty floor of the liquor store. There is speculation that the attending television crew may have increased the incentive for a glamorised, military-style operation. Still, as the American middle class collapses, its worth perhaps remembering that the East Side of Detroitthe place where Aiyana, JeRean, and Officer Huff all diedwas once its industrial cradle. 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. Thats five times as many as New York, in a city one-tenth the size. David Corn, Noah Lanard, and Dan Friedman. 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.". Thats when Owens, 34, pulled up on a moped. Lil James brought along a .357 Magnumat the behest of Jones, Detective Williams testified, because Jones was afraid someone would try to steal his diamond Cartier glasses.. One witness had him pegged for 13 years old. Do you find this information helpful? That tape never aired, but it was used as evidence in Weekleys two trials for Aiyanas death. 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. But the people of Lillibridge Street still look like theyve been picked up by their hair and dropped from the rooftop. His brother stood over the dead man, a pistol in his hand, keeping an eye on the door in case someone walked in wanting to settle things. I forgive him, but I don't forget what he did.". Its now just another abandoned house in Detroit.. The city filled with people from all over the world: Arabs, Appalachians, Poles, African Americans, all in their separate neighborhoods surrounding the factories. [38] Forget about it. The grenade landed so close to Aiyana that it burned her blanket. Cole's character, it turns out, is a drug dealer. The environment didnt affect us none, Jones said. He caught a lunch lady stealing the childrens milk money. Aiyana was killed when police raided a house to capture a murder suspect. Its always like that. As for the tape that Geoffrey Fieger claimed would show the cops firing on Aiyanas house from outside, A&E turned it over to the police. 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. 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. Parts of the Detroit River are now clean enough for swimming. Legal name. The presence of children in the house was known. JeReans mother drove as he gurgled in the backseat. He has three boys with Aiyanas mother, Dominika Stanley, and three boys with another woman, whom he had left long ago. And now that the papers do cover Detroit, boosters complain about a lack of balance. [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. Detroit VA hospital harmed patients, altered records, investigation reveals, $8.5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. 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. [52], A civil rights lawsuit questioned Weekley's account of the incident, claiming the grenade had gone through the window and struck Aiyana. He came here for publicity. [16], Aiyana Jones was the daughter of Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley. Sharptons people called JeReans mother, Lyvonne Cargill, promising to come over to her house after Aiyanas funeral. The Rev. The flower shop is just a pile of bricks now, but despite what the Arab told me, I did not forget what I saw. I began to get calls from reporters around the world wondering what Detroit was like, what was happening here. Outside court, a spokesman for Aiyana's family criticized the judge for her comments. Sheffield came to see Cargill. Were going to pull people over for traffic violations and were going to take their cars if theyre not legal. Forbidden by restrictive real estate covenants and racist custom, the blacks were mostly restricted to Paradise Valley, which ran the length of Woodward Avenue. JeRean knew badness was on its way and called his mother to come pick him up. "It isn't the judge's decisions that caused these juries to not reach a decision," she said. The ACLU report found that only 7% of Swat raids were in hostage or active shooter situations situations that justify such extreme responses and 79% were effectuating search warrants, situations that do not call for Swat interventions. I have . 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. The family is seeking $7.5 million in damages and a jury trial conceded by the court filing. There are some 10,000 unsolved homicides dating back to 1960. The Detroit City Council needs to approve the settlement. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was 7 years old when she was killed by a single bullet to the head. [12] At the time of the incident Aiyana Jones was asleep on the couch in front room of the downstairs apartment. The Jones family also sued Weekley and the Detroit Police Department in 2015. But there is no money; the struggling school system has a $363 million deficit. Jones does not have a release date identified, although he could be freed as early as Thursday, Gautz said. and Weekley for the unlawful use of excessive force. The prisoner has not incurred any serious misconducts while in prison. JeRean might have thought it was funny to see a grown man driving a moped. Inside, splayed on the floor underneath the rack of snack cakes near the register, was a black man in a pool of blood. It feels like there aint no love no more.. 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. The whole country knew it, and the whole country laughed. Blame the Federal Reserve. Weekley will not go to a third trial. 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