Mertilla Jones took the witness stand Monday and tearfully recalled the night three years ago that police raided her home and her granddaughter was fatally shot.
Elisha Anderson of the Free Press reports Jones, 50, testified she was on the couch with 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones in the front room of her home on Lillibridge on Detroit's east side on May 16, 2010.
"The front window broke, she heard officers yell “police” and the door was kicked open. It all happened simultaneously, she said.
Then she heard a boom and Jones said she rolled on to floor.
She was on her stomach on the floor looking at the front door and saw police rushing in, she testified.
“As soon as they came in, the gun was just pointed right there at Aiyana’s head,” she testified.
The trigger was pulled and Jones said she saw “the light leave out of her eyes.”
