Remembrance & Memorials : The case of Aiyana Stanley-Jones
source: 4WardEverUK Writers
published: 12 May 2023
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From all of our hundreds of Remembrance Calendar entries, we particularly feature certain cases that were of notable historical significance.
Aiyana Stanley-Jones
7-year-old Aiyana Jones was asleep on a living room sofa when she was shot once in the neck after a Detroit Police Special Response Team executed a no-knock search warrant at a two-unit flat in Detroit shortly after 12:30am on 15th May 2010.
Aiyana’s father, Charles Jones, said; "I saw them (police) running with my daughter out of the house. They had my mother on the floor, and they just kept me there for like two hours, I knew it was bad.” He went on to say; "Her blood was everywhere and I was trying to stay calm, but nobody would talk to me. None of them even tried to console me''.
According to police, as police officers entered the home there was a struggle with the child's grandmother, Mertilla Jones, who grabbed for an officers gun before it accidentally discharged. The bullet struck and killed Aiyana. Authorities have claimed the gun was fired by accident.
One witness, Terrance Echols, 28, said he was in his home, across the street when he heard a 'bang.' He ran upstairs, "and I heard people yelling, 'You killed a 7-year-old girl. You killed the girl".
Southfield attorney Geoffery Fieger, representing the family of Aiyana said, shortly after the shooting, he had obtained video footage of the incident. He claimed that it was shot by the A&E crime reality show The First 48, and shows that at least one shot was fired after police threw a stun grenade into the home.
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