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Days after an 11-year-old boy was shot in the chest by an Indianola police officer this week, family and community members are calling for answers and for the officer’s termination.
Aderrien Murry was shot early Saturday morning when officers responded to a domestic call at his home.
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.
Nakala Murry, Aderrien’s mother, 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 11-year-old son and asked him to call her mother and the police.
Murry said the officer who arrived at the home “had his gun drawn at the front door and asked those inside the home to come outside.” Murry said her son was shot coming around the corner of a hallway, into the living room.
The Indianola Police Department confirmed that the officer involved in the shooting is named Greg Capers but did not provide any additional details on the shooting, telling CNN the police chief was unavailable. CNN reached out to Capers for comment but did not immediately hear back. On Monday evening, the Indianola Board of Aldermen voted to place Capers on paid administrative leave while the shooting is investigated.
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