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Indianola Officer Greg Capers shot unarmed Aderrien Murry in the
chest at the boy's home early one morning in May, after the
11-year-old called police to his home because his father was
threatening his mother.
A grand jury decided not to indict Capers on Thursday, finding
that he had no criminal intent when he shot Murry. But still
pending is a civil lawsuit that the Murrys filed in May against
Capers, the city of Indianola, and its police chief, seeking $5
million in damages for Capers' alleged "reckless disregard" for
the Murrys' rights and safety.
Murry survived, but his medical bills are in the tens of
thousands of dollars, "and the city has never offered to help
with those," his lawyer Carlos Moore said in an interview on
Friday. Moore said the city has still not responded to the
Murrys' proposed settlement.
The lawyer representing the city and its officers in the civil
lawsuit did not immediately return a request for comment on
Friday.
The Indianola Police Department referred a request for comment
to the Mississippi Attorney General's Office, which said in a
statement that it would not take further criminal action in the
matter after the grand jury's decision.
The magistrate judge overseeing the civil lawsuit allowed Moore
and Murry's mother to view body-camera footage of the shooting
last week, but prohibited them from publicly releasing the
video.
They appealed that decision to a higher judge, who could issue a
decision early next year, according to Moore.
(Reporting by Julia Harte)
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