The 11-year-old boy who nearly lost his life after being shot by Mississippi Police is speaking out for the first time and detailing the horrifying incident that took place.
Aderrien Murry called 911 on May 20 to get help from authorities because his mother was having a dispute with one of the father’s of her other children. He was instructed by his mother to call 911 for help. Once Indianola Officer Greg Capers arrived, he came out of his bedroom with his hands raised above his head. Despite the signal of surrender, Capers fired a shot at the boy’s chest. In what he thought would be his last moments, the young boy revealed on Tuesday that he song gospel to try and stay alive. According to Murry he sang Fred Hammonds, hit song ‘No Weapon Formed Against Me Shall Prosper.’ He told CNN’s Nick Valencia in an interview Tuesday. He then told his mother to tell his family and his teacher he was “sorry for what he did.”
“Sometimes, I can see myself laying inside the coffin. Those are my thoughts at night, my only ones,” Aderrien said during the interview, but often with a wisdom well beyond his young age. “Sometimes I think people are watching me. But my main thought is me dead, inside the coffin.”
Murry told ABC News she gave Aderrien the phone and asked him to call his grandmother after she said she woke up around 4 a.m., heard a knock on the window and saw her ex-boyfriend standing outside.
“I noticed he was kind of irate. And from dealing with him in the past, I know the irate version of him, what it could lead to,” she told “GMA3.”
Unfortunately the bullet did collapse the boys lung and cut his liver. While giving more details about the night, we learned that Murry actually wanted to be a police officer when he grows up, but after being shot by one that passion has changed.
“Because I got shot… that’s why I don’t want to be a police officer anymore,” he said. Now, Aderrien plans to become a doctor, like the ones who helped him recover from his injuries.
In regards to the officer, the boy’s family simply seeks for justice to be served.
“I feel like he should be terminated. I don’t hate him. You know, I’m angry, but I’m so much overfilled with joy at the fact that my son is alive that I don’t have room for anger right now. I want justice to be served,” said Murry.
Indianola Mayor Ken Featherstone told ABC the officer was suspended Monday. Whether he will face criminal charges is up to the outcome of the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation’s findings.