Seven-year-old Aiyana MoNay Stanley-Jones was killed in the family’s Detroit home in the early hours of May 16, 2010, when a Detroit Police Special Response Team executing a raid threw a flash grenade through a window and entered. The team was searching for a murder suspect believed to be in the building while the operation was being filmed for a reality TV show. Aiyana was asleep on the living room couch and was struck in the neck by a single bullet and killed.

Officer Joseph Weekley said the shot was fired when Aiyana’s paternal grandmother, Mertilla Jones, struggled with him and his submachine gun discharged. Mertilla Jones denied making contact, saying she reached for Aiyana after the flash grenade ignited the child’s blanket. Investigators found no fingerprints of Mertilla Jones on Weekley’s firearm. The raid’s target, Chauncey Owens, surrendered upstairs and was later convicted of the unrelated murder that prompted the raid; Aiyana’s father, Charles Jones, was convicted of second-degree murder for supplying the gun used in that crime.

Weekley was charged in October 2011 with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun; his first trial in June 2013 ended in a mistrial, a second trial in 2014 saw the more serious charge dismissed and also ended in a mistrial, and prosecutors later dropped the remaining misdemeanor charge in January 2015. Does anyone have additional details about what happened that night or recall the circumstances in the building?