The Mississippi officer who shot 11-year-old Aderrien Murry in the chest last month after the boy called 911 for help has been suspended without pay.
A city board meeting happened Monday evening when the decision was made to suspend police Sgt. Greg Capers. According to USA Today, he was suspended without pay. On May 20th 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.
Carlos Moore, an attorney for the Murry family spoke with the media and said he feels like this punishment is a step in the right direction. “The family of Aderrien Murry, specifically his mother Nakala Murry, believes this is a step in the right direction,” but Moore said the family is still demanding that Capers be terminated from his job and not be allowed to serve as a law enforcement officer ever again. “He’s a danger to society,” Moore said, adding that the family wants to see Capers prosecuted for aggravated assault.
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.
One of the saddest parts of his interview with GMA was when he explained how he just kept singing a certain gospel song while he on the ground after being shot. Murry revealed he sung Fred Hammonds, hit song ‘No Weapon Formed Against Me Shall Prosper,’ over and over because he thought he wasn’t going to make it.