PICTURED: Mississippi police officer accused of shooting unarmed 11-year-old in the chest after he called 911 for help is suspended without pay
- Aderrien Murry ‘came within an inch of losing his life’ on Saturday morning when he was allegedly shot in the chest by Sergeant Greg Capers
- He suffered a collapsed lung, fractured ribs and a lacerated liver and is recovering at home after treatment at University of Mississippi Medical Center
- Indianola Police Department officer Capers has been suspended pending an investigation, according to the family’s attorney Carlos Moore
A Mississippi police officer accused of shooting an 11-year-old boy in the chest after he dialed 911 for help has been suspended without pay.
Aderrien Murry ‘came within an inch of losing his life’ on Saturday morning when he was allegedly shot in the chest by Sergeant Greg Capers.
He suffered a collapsed lung, fractured ribs and a lacerated liver from the shooting and was placed on a ventilator at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
The wounded boy, who is now recovering at home after being released from hospital on Wednesday, asked his mother Nakala Murry: ‘Why did he shoot me? What did I do?
Indianola Police Department officer Capers has been suspended pending an investigation, according to the family’s attorney Carlos Moore.
Aderrien called the police for help and an officer arrived to deal with the domestic disturbance call, according to Nakala and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI) which is investigating the shooting.
He was concerned about his mother’s safety when the ‘irate’ father of his half sister arrived at their home at 4am Saturday.
Nakala claimed the officer ‘had his gun drawn at the front door and asked those inside the home to come outside’, before her son was shot as he walked around the hallway corner.
‘Once he came from around the corner, he got shot,’ she said in a press conference outside Indianola’s city hall annex building on Monday.
‘I cannot grasp why. The same cop that told him to come out of the house. (Aderrien) did, and he got shot.’
Nakala put her hand over her son’s wound to apply pressure while he ‘sang gospel songs and prayed while bleeding out’.
She claimed the officer tried to help render first aid and put his hand over hers to try to stop Aderrien’s bleeding.
The family’s attorney Moore claimed Aderrien ‘came within an inch of losing his life’.
He said: ‘It’s not OK for a cop to do this and get away with this.
‘The mother asked Aderrien to call the police on her daughter’s father.
‘He walked out of his room as directed by the police and he got shot.’
Nakala added that the shooting took place ‘one to two minutes’ after the officer asked everyone in the house to come outside.
