Seven-year-old Aiyana Joneswas asleep on the living room sofa in her family’s apartment when Detroit police busted in with their guns blazing. They were looking for a homicide suspect who lived on the second floor of the house. Aiyana’s father, 25-year-old Charles Jones, told the press that he had just gone to bed early Sunday after covering his daughter with her favorite Disney princess blanket when he heard a flash grenade followed by a gunshot. When he rushed into the living room, he said, police forced him to lie on the ground, with his face in his daughter’s blood. This is what Jones told the Detroit press;
‘I’ll never be the same. That’s my only daughter,’
‘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,’ Jones told The Detroit News. ‘I knew it was bad, and they probably had my baby at the hospital, because someone asked me if she had any allergies.
‘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.’
Aiyana Jones at her sixth birthday party.
We are deeply saddened by this tragic by this shooting another young life is cut short and read the account of this young father lying in his daughter’s blood is very sad. Our hearts go out to the Jones family.
We would like all our GlobalGrind family to make sure this doesn’t happen again. we have dedicated a Facebook page just for Aiyana Jones. PLEASE JOIN, so Aiyana’s death is not in vain.
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Aiyana Jones at her sixth birthday party.
Aiyana’s stepmom, Dominique Simpson, cries on the front porch.
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Aiyana’s step aunt Kayia White, left, and the little girl’s stepmom Dominique Simpson sit distraught on the front porch.
Aiyana was struck by a single bullet as she slept on the couch.
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A ‘Lightning McQueen’ toy rests on the corner of the sofa on the porch of the home where Aiyana was killed. The little girl loved Disney characters.
Charles Jones, left, Aiyana’s father, is consoled by his cousin Sarah Albritton. ‘They came into my house with a flash grenade and a bullet,’ said Jones.
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Lakrista Sanders, left, comforts a crying Charles Jones the father of Aiyana Jones.
