A city official announced Tuesday that a Mississippi police officer who shot and injured an unarmed 11-year-old Black boy in the boy’s house while acting in self-defense has been placed on paid leave.
According to board member Marvin Elder on Tuesday, the Indianola Board of Aldermen decided Monday night to immediately discontinue paying Sgt. Greg Capers. Black Capers had already been placed on paid leave, according to Carlos Moore, the lawyer for the boy’s family, Aderrien Murry.
Moore reported that the family is still working to have Capers dismissed. Moore said that the man needed to be fired and prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law.
Murry was shot in the chest by Capers on May 20, Moore claimed, and spent five days in the hospital with a collapsed lung, a lacerated liver, and cracked ribs. Capers has not been charged with any crimes, but the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is looking into the situation as is common in shootings involving law enforcement.