As 11-year-old Aderrien Murry collapsed into his mother’s arms moments after an Indianola Police officer shot him in the chest at their home during the early morning hours of May 20, he asked his mother to tell teachers and family members he was “sorry.”
He “actually thought he was about to die” and “wanted to seek forgiveness before he met his maker,” his family’s attorney Carlos Moore said as he recited the story at a press conference in Grenada, Miss., on Tuesday. The boy, who is recovering after spending five days at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, appeared at the press conference with his mother Nakala Murry.
Moore announced Tuesday that the family had filed a $5 million lawsuit against the City of Indianola, Indianola Police Chief Ronald Sampson and Officer Greg Capers. The lawsuit identifies Capers, 61, as the officer who shot Aderrien Murry.
“My client, Aderrien Murry, did everything right,” Moore said at the press conference. “And yet he was still shot point blank, center range, in the chest.” The complaint alleges that Capers “failed to assess the situation before displaying and/or discharging his firearm.”
“(Aderrien) had called the police to come to his mother’s rescue,” Moore continued. “Her ex-boyfriend was in the house, he had heard his mother crying. She had slipped the cell phone to him and asked him to call the police and his grandmother. He did just that. A brave and courageous young man tried to come to the rescue of his mother. Little did he know that, just a few moments later, he would be fighting for his life.”
Moore said that, when Nakala Murry opened the door, she told the police officers that her ex-boyfriend “was running out of the back of the house and did not have a gun.”
“Then (the officer) sticks his head in the door and says, ‘If there is anyone else in the house, come on out with your hands up.’ Being obedient, Aderrien Murry heard the command and came out with his hands up,” Moore said. “And seconds later after leaving his room and turning
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