Community members of a town in the Mississippi Delta are demanding answers and accountability from police after an officer responding to a domestic disturbance shot an 11-year-old boy in the chest.
An Indianola police officer shot Aderrien Murry after police were called to his home early Saturday morning to handle a domestic situation.
According to the boy’s mother, Nakala Murry, she instructed her son, Aderrien, to call the police because the father of another one of her children arrived at her home “irate” at 4 a.m. Murry said that once an officer arrived, he already had his gun drawn and asked those inside the house to come out. Murry also said the responding officers were beating and kicking on the door.
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While complying with the officer’s orders, Murry said the officer fired a shot from the outside of the house as her son came around the corner of a hallway in the living room.
The boy suffered a collapsed lung, fractured ribs and a lacerated liver, and was sent to the hospital for treatment. He had to be placed on a ventilator, but was released from the hospital on Wednesday, May 24. Murry’s daughter and 3-year-old nephew were inside the home at the time of the shooting, she said.
“His words to me were, ‘Why did he shoot me? What did I do wrong?’ Then he just started crying,” Murry said in a May 22 press conference. “He ran to me. He was bleeding. I held him. I held his wound. He bled out the mouth. Every time I close my eyes, I see it.”
Now the family is calling for body-camera footage to be released, a response from Indianola police chief Ronald Sampson, and for the responding officer, Greg Capers, to be fired.
CNN reports that the family’s attorney, Carlos…
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