Reality TV crew taping when 7-year-old shot by officer

Events leading up to the shooting death of a 7-year-old girl at the hands of a Detroit officer may have been videotaped by a crime-reality series camera crew that was with police as they searched a family home for a homicide suspect. What’s on the video could reveal if Aiyana Jones was fatally shot by an officer whose gun mistakenly discharged inside the house, as police say, or if claims by an attorney for Aiyana’s family of a “cover up” are true. Police have said officers threw a flash grenade through the first-floor window of the two-family home early Sunday and that an officer’s gun discharged during a struggle or after a collision with the girl’s grandmother. The crew for the A&E series “The First 48” was with police during the weekend raid. Lawyer Geoffrey Fieger, who is representing Aiyana’s family, said he has seen video of the siege and that the police account was full of “utter fabrications.” He said a video shows an officer lobbing the grenade and then shooting into the home from the porch. He would not say if the footage he saw was from the A&E crew.