Mississippi household seeks prices after officer shoots 11-year-old boy By Reuters

(Reuters) – A Mississippi household on Thursday demanded a police officer be dismissed and charged with aggravated assault for capturing an 11-year-old boy when police responded to the kid’s personal home disturbance name at his dwelling.

Aderrien Murry, who known as police on the request of his mom, was unarmed and following directions from Indianola officer Greg Capers when Capers shot him within the chest early Saturday morning, household lawyer Carlos Moore stated.

The boy had known as police to the house after his mom, Nakala Murry, was threatened by a person at 4 a.m. native time, however Capers “escalated the state of affairs,” Moore stated.

The person was his father, ABC Information reported, citing Murry.

Moore known as for bodycam video to be launched and objected to Capers being positioned on paid go away pending the investigation. A small group of protesters held a sit-in protest with the household at metropolis corridor on Thursday morning.

“We’re demanding justice. An 11-year-old Black boy within the metropolis of Indianola got here inside an inch of shedding his life,” Moore stated. “He had carried out nothing unsuitable and every thing proper.”

Murry was taken to the College of Mississippi Medical Middle for remedy and launched on Wednesday, CNN reported.

The police division was not accessible for remark.

The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is investigating, CNN reported.

The incident is the most recent in a string of police shootings of unarmed African People. In April, officers responded to a home violence name on the unsuitable home and killed a 52-year-old man in New Mexico. In 2020, Breonna Taylor was killed in 2020 throughout a botched police raid in Louisville, Kentucky.

The bulk Black metropolis of Indianola, inhabitants 15,000, is about 100 miles (160 km) north of Jackson, the state’s capital metropolis.