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Aderrien Murry, who called police at the request of his mother,
was unarmed and following instructions from Indianola officer
Greg Capers when Capers shot him in the chest early Saturday
morning, family attorney Carlos Moore said.
The boy had called police to the home after his mother, Nakala
Murry, was threatened by a man at 4 a.m. local time, but Capers
"escalated the situation," Moore said.
The man was his father, ABC News reported, citing Murry.
Moore called for bodycam video to be released and objected to
Capers being placed on paid leave pending the investigation. A
small group of protesters held a sit-in protest with the family
at city hall on Thursday morning.
"We are demanding justice. An 11-year-old Black boy in the city
of Indianola came within an inch of losing his life," Moore
said. "He had done nothing wrong and everything right."
Murry was taken to the University of Mississippi Medical Center
for treatment and released on Wednesday, CNN reported.
The police department was not available for comment.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is investigating, CNN
reported.
The incident is the latest in a string of police shootings of
unarmed African Americans. In April, officers responded to a
domestic violence call at the wrong house and killed a
52-year-old man in New Mexico. In 2020, Breonna Taylor was
killed in 2020 during a botched police raid in Louisville,
Kentucky.
The majority Black city of Indianola, population 15,000, is
about 100 miles (160 km) north of Jackson, the state's capital
city.
(Reporting by Tyler Cliffrod in New York City; Editing by
Michael Perry)
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