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Police kill 7-year-old: Detroit police raiding a home killed a 7-year-old girl this week, throwing a flash-bang grenade that burned her and then firing a shot that hit her in the neck. Aiyana Jones, 7, was sleeping on the sofa after midnight when officers searching for a murder suspect threw a flash-bang device into her home and entered, guns drawn. Police said one officer collided with the child’s grandmother, causing his gun to go off by accident. “They blew my granddaughter’s brains out,” said the grandmother, Mertilla Jones. “I watched the light go out of her eyes.” Police arrested a man in the separate, upstairs unit of the duplex home, saying he was wanted for questioning in a homicide. Assistant Police Chief Ralph Godbee called the incident “a tragedy of unspeakable magnitude.” The Jones family is suing the police for negligence and misconduct.

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