An 11-year-old Mississippi boy who was shot final week by a police officer responding to his 911 name has one query for his assailant: “Why did you do it?”
In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Aderrien Murry recounted the horrifying ordeal that started Could 20 when the kid referred to as 911 at his mom’s request after the daddy of his youthful sister got here to their dwelling in Indianola.
Sgt. Greg Capers, the officer responding to the decision, confirmed up on the home together with his firearm already drawn and ordered all of the occupants outdoors. The kid was on his means outdoors when he was shot within the chest.
“I simply tried to comply with the police instructions, however I assume that didn’t work,” he stated.
Murry stated Capers ordered all people to come back out with their palms up, and “then I keep in mind I heard the large bang. Then I simply keep in mind holding my chest.”
Now, Murry is recovering from a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and fractured ribs from the taking pictures, and the household has filed a lawsuit in opposition to the Indianola Police Division and Capers, who has been suspended with pay, in accordance with the boy’s lawyer, Carlos Moore. The boy informed CNN he desires the officer terminated from his job.
Murry nonetheless imagines what might have occurred.
“Typically, I can see myself laying contained in the coffin,” he stated. “These are my ideas at night time, my solely ones. Typically I feel persons are watching me. However my important thought is me useless, contained in the coffin.”
Capers hasn’t commented on the incident, however Murry says there’s one query he’d wish to ask the officer.
“Why did you do it? I might have misplaced my life, all due to you,” he stated.
Watch the extra from the CNN interview under: