‘This Is Not OK.’ Mother Of 11-year-old Shot By Mississippi Police Pleads For Answers

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Days after an 11-year-old boy was shot in the chest by an Indianola, Mississippi police offi­cer, fam­i­ly and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers are call­ing for answers and for the officer’s ter­mi­na­tion. Community mem­bers iden­ti­fied the boy as Aderrien Murry. He was shot ear­ly Saturday morn­ing when offi­cers respond­ed to a domes­tic call at his home, accord­ing to a state­ment from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, which is inves­ti­gat­ing the shooting.
As of Tuesday, Murry is in the inten­sive care unit at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, the family’s attor­ney Carlos Moore said. He was placed on a ven­ti­la­tor because he has a col­lapsed lung, and he has oth­er injuries includ­ing frac­tured ribs and a lac­er­at­ed liver.
Information about why the unarmed child was shot has not been released, said Moore, who is rep­re­sent­ing the boy’s fam­i­ly and joined them and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers at a Monday press con­fer­ence out­side of Indianola City Hall.

“This can­not keep hap­pen­ing. This is not OK,” said Nakala Murry, the boy’s moth­er, dur­ing the press con­fer­ence. “If a non-police offi­cer was to shoot some­one, you know it’s not OK. When the police do it, they have pro­to­col. He was trained. He knows what to do.”
Nakala Murry said her son is strong, but Aderrien does not under­stand what hap­pened to him.
“His words were: ‘Why did he shoot me? What did I do?’ and he start­ed cry­ing,” she said. She remem­bers hold­ing her son, apply­ing pres­sure to his wound and see­ing blood run from his mouth — an image she sees every time she clos­es her eyes. Nakala Murry said police were called to the house because the father of her oth­er child came over and was act­ing irate. When he act­ed this way, she knew some­thing could poten­tial­ly hap­pen and want­ed “to stop it right there.” She snuck her phone to her son and asked him to call her moth­er and the police. Investigators did not name the Indianola police offi­cer, but Moore said his inves­ti­ga­tion uncov­ered that the offi­cer is Greg Capers, who was named the department’s “best officer.”
“If he’s your best, Indianola, you need a clean house from top to bot­tom,” Moore said.