Mississippi
Mom Nakala Murry demands action after Mississippi cops shot 11-year-old son during domestic disturbance call
An 11-year-old boy was shot by cops during a domestic disturbance call in Mississippi and his mom is demanding the officer be fired and prosecuted.
Nakala Murry slammed Indianola police after she said officer Greg Capers shot her 11-year-old son Aderrien in the chest on Saturday morning when he called the police about his sister’s “irate” father.
Aderrien was quickly transported to a hospital. He has since been released and is continuing his recovery.
Murry said she woke up at around 4 a.m. when she heard a knock on her window and found her daughter’s father 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 ABC News.
She then instructed Aderrien to call his grandmother for help, but the boy sought help from the police first, telling them that there were no weapons involved.
Murry’s attorney, Carlos Moore, claimed that police were told three separate times that no one was armed inside the house, yet the officer responded with his weapon drawn when he entered the home.
Murry claimed the officer and another cop tried to break down her door upon arrival, and when she opened it, Capers had his weapon drawn and instructed her to leave as he went inside, with a gunshot fired afterward.
“I heard a shot and I saw my son run out toward where we were,” she said.
“He fell, bleeding. I put pressure on it to stop, help stop the bleeding.”
She said the frightened child repeated to her, “I don’t wanna die.”
Murry said Aderrien was shot in the chest, and quickly transported to a hospital. He has since been released and is continuing his recovery.
Indianola Mayor Ken Featherstone said Capers has been suspended from the force as the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation probes the officer-involved shooting.
But Murry has called on the city to fire Capers and for state prosecutors to charge him for the shooting. The Mississippi Attorney General’s Office is currently waiting for the MBI to conclude its investigation.
“We’re demanding justice,” Moore told ABC.
“We want immediate termination. We want prosecution and we want the family to get some answers.”
The Indianola Police Department and MBI did not immediately respond to the Post’s request for comment.