A grand jury has decided not to indict a Mississippi officer after a 11-year-old boy nearly lost his life once the officer shot the young boy in the chest.
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 CNN that all he could do was recite Fred Hammonds, hit song ‘No Weapon Formed Against Me Shall Prosper.’ He also told CNN’s Nick Valencia, he then told his mother to tell his family and his teacher he was “sorry for what he did.”
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The child’s mother is now calling for the body cam footage to be released to the public. “Watching that footage was nothing I was prepared for emotionally, but it was something I had to do,” Nakala Murry, the mother of Aderrien, said Wednesday during a press conference in Grenada. “I feel disgusted, outraged and emotionally damaged, but in all of those feelings I feel blessed. This has been a process of fighting for justice for my son.”
As we previously reported, Murry spoke about the horrific incident during a recent interview and said: “Sometimes, I can see myself laying inside the coffin. Those are my thoughts at night, my only ones,” Aderrien said during the interview, “Sometimes I think people are watching me. But my main thought is me dead, inside the coffin.”
According to the lawsuit filed by the mother, Nakala Murry. As Aderrien “was coming around the corner of the hallway that led into the living room area, he was instantly shot by Defendant Officer Capers,” the lawsuit says.
Aderrien suffered a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and fractured ribs. It felt “like a big punch to the chest,” the boy told Good Morning America. “I actually thought I was about to lose my life,” Aderrien said.
Murry’s attorney says he will not stop fighting Justice! “While the grand jury has spoken, we firmly believe that there are unanswered questions and that the shooting of Aderrien Murry was not justified,” he said in a Thursday statement. “We are committed to seeking justice for Aderrien and his family, and we will persist in our efforts to ensure accountability through the civil legal process.”