Newly released body cam footage is showing the moment a 11-year-old boy was shot by Mississippi officers last year.
In the footage you can see Aderrien Murry, 11, being shot by Sgt. Greg Capers who was walking up to the home with his gun drawn on May 20. If you remember our previous stories, Murry had called authorites because he thought his mother was in danger. In the video, Capers approaches the door, shouting, “Let me see your hands” repeatedly while a woman stands at the door with her hands up and then Murry is seen running in the living room and the officer fired off a shot – striking the young boy in the chest.
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As we previously reported on December 14, a grand jury decided not to indict a Mississippi officer after the 11-year-old boy nearly lost his life once the officer shot the young boy in the chest. In what he thought would be his last moments, the young boy revealed on previously interview with CNN that all he could do was recite Fred Hammonds, hit song ‘No Weapon Formed Against Me Shall Prosper.’
The child’s mother has been calling for the body cam footage to be released to the public. “Watching that footage was nothing I was prepared for emotionally, but it was something I had to do,” Nakala Murry, the mother of Aderrien, said Wednesday during a press conference in Grenada. “I feel disgusted, outraged and emotionally damaged, but in all of those feelings I feel blessed. This has been a process of fighting for justice for my son.”
As we previously reported, Murry spoke about the horrific incident during a recent interview and said: “Sometimes, I can see myself laying inside the coffin. Those are my thoughts at night, my only ones,” Aderrien said during the interview, “Sometimes I think people are watching me. But my main thought is me dead, inside the coffin.”
According to the lawsuit filed by the mother, Nakala Murry. As Aderrien “was coming around the corner of the hallway that led into the living room area, he was instantly shot by Defendant Officer Capers,” the lawsuit says.
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Aderrien suffered a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and fractured ribs. It felt “like a big punch to the chest,” the boy told Good Morning America. “I actually thought I was about to lose my life,” Aderrien said.
