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🗓️ 15 May 2025
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In May of 2010, 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones was fatally shot during a police raid on her Detroit home.
Written by Charity Dodd, audio production by Bill Bert.
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0:00.0 | In the shadowy corners of Michigan's towns and beyond, mysteries linger unsolved. |
0:06.9 | Her family is not heard from her sense. |
0:09.1 | Waiting for answers. |
0:10.3 | If you see her or that car, call 911. |
0:13.3 | From cold cases that defy logic to the crimes that haunt the Great Lakes region. |
0:17.7 | Right now there is no trace. |
0:19.5 | This is the already gone podcast. |
0:25.8 | On May 16, 2010, 7-year-old Ayanna Stanley Jones was asleep in her Detroit home. That's when |
0:33.3 | police conducted a raid in search of a murder suspect who lived at that address. |
0:38.3 | The raid was being filmed for the reality TV show 48 hours. During the operation, |
0:45.2 | Officer Joseph Weekly fired his gun, killing Ayanna. The exact cause of the shooting remains |
0:52.1 | disputed. |
1:29.7 | Ayanna Monet Stanley Jones was born in Detroit, Michigan on July 20, 2002. She was the daughter of Charles Jones and Dominica Stanley. Ianna was one of three children with four step siblings. At just seven years old, Ayanna was like other girls. Her favorite color was pink, |
1:36.6 | and she was fond of Disney princesses and Hannah Montana. She was especially close to and lived with her grandmother, Martilla Jones, in the lower unit of a duplex on Lillabridge Street, |
1:43.1 | on Detroit's east side. On the night of May 16, 2010, |
1:48.9 | as the little girl lay sleeping on a couch beside her grandmother, her home became the site of a |
1:54.5 | violent police raid, one that would end with Ianna's death. To understand how her life was taken, we have to start |
2:03.2 | with the events that led to the raid on her home. On May 14, 2010, a tragic event took place that |
2:11.8 | set off a devastating chain of events. 17-year-old Gerian Blake was outside a convenience store, the Motor City Marketplace, |
2:21.1 | when he was shot and killed. |
2:23.5 | The shooter, later identified as Chauncey Owens, was allegedly given the gun used to kill him |
2:29.6 | by Ianna's father, Charles Jones. |
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