Horrifying body camera footage has been released of an officer fatally shooting a Mississippi boy who called 911 after his “enraged” ex-boyfriend showed up at their home.
The incident happened in the early hours of May 20 after 11-year-old Aderrien Murry called the police to inform them of a domestic dispute.
In a video released Monday, Officer Greg Capers is seen repeatedly knocking on the door of their home so forcefully that the dispatcher says “He gave you permission to kick in”
Capers is then shown trying to do just that but he struggles with the door and is heard saying “It’s not that easy”
At that moment, a woman opened the door and Capers instructed her to adopt a submissive attitude.
“Let me see your hand! Let me see your hand!” he was heard to say, with his gun drawn.
“Where is he? Where is he?” the officer asked him, gesturing inside the house with his head
“Does he have a weapon? Get out sir, don’t tell us to come in.”
The officer was then seen entering the house.
“Police! If you got any weapons you better put them down,” the police warned as they surveyed the empty living room.
At that point, Aderrien was seen darting into frame with his hands above his head, and the officer immediately opened fire, shooting him in the chest.
“Oh my god!” Capers shouted as the boy screamed in pain.
The officer then frantically called an ambulance as the injured boy ran outside screaming for his mother.
“Med-stat, we need it now!,” the policeman was heard shouting on his radio.
Aderrien’s mother, Nakala Murry, filed a $5 million lawsuit against the police department demanding the release of the body camera footage and calling for Capers and Indianola Police Chief Ronald Sampson to be fired.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said last month that her office had completed their review of the incident and turned it over to a Sunflower County grand jury, which declined to indict Capers.
After watching the bodycam footage, Murry insisted that the situation was inappropriate.
“I think it’s all avoidable, especially from trained police officers,” he told NPR.
“The most challenging part of dealing with this situation is the lack of humanity, the lack of decency,” his lawyer Carlos Moore reportedly said.
Moore said that police were told on three separate occasions that no one in the home was armed.
“People need to be held accountable…We will get justice for Nakala Murry and Aderrien Murry,” he added, referring to the pending lawsuit.
Aderrien appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” after the incident to talk about her horrific ordeal.
“It felt like a Taser, like a big punch in the chest,” Aderrien said of the moment he was hit.
“I’m bleeding – bleeding from my mouth.”
He recounted how he sang gospel verses and prayed as his mother diligently pressed his wounds.
Aderrien was treated for a collapsed lung and lacerations to his liver.
“It was God who saved my life and I really believe that,” he said at the time.
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