Copies of the 911 calls positioned by 11-year-old Aderrien Murry and his grandmother to the Indianola Police Department had been launched Friday. The calls elevate questions concerning the May 20, 2023, incident and the way the scenario was dealt with by authorities. Here, a picture from the physique digicam footage exhibits the second Sgt. Greg Capers fired his weapon at Aderrien.

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Copies of the 911 calls positioned by 11-year-old Aderrien Murry and his grandmother to the Indianola Police Department had been launched Friday. The calls elevate questions concerning the May 20, 2023, incident and the way the scenario was dealt with by authorities. Here, a picture from the physique digicam footage exhibits the second Sgt. Greg Capers fired his weapon at Aderrien.

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A Mississippi 911 dispatcher was instructed {that a} man allegedly attempting to enter a house final May was unarmed and that there have been kids contained in the residence — the place one officer shot and wounded 11-year-old Aderrien Murry, who had known as police for assist.

Carlos Moore, the lawyer representing the Murry household, says the recordings he launched on Friday “directly contradict the initial police account and raise serious questions about the handling of the situation that led to the tragic shooting.”

“This crucial information should have been known to the responding officers and should have informed their approach to the situation,” Moore said in a statement.

Moore launched the 5 minutes of audio recordings to reporters after the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation initially declined to take action.

Earlier this week, body camera footage from the incident was additionally launched and obtained by NPR.

Neither the Indianola Police Department nor the dispatcher, Jada Rush, responded to NPR’s requests for remark following the discharge of the physique digicam footage and the recording of the 911 name positioned by Aderrien.

Last month, a grand jury in Mississippi determined that there was no felony conduct by the officer, Sgt. Greg Capers, and no additional motion or costs might be taken towards him.

On May 20, Aderrien known as 911 on the request of his mom, Nakala Murry, to ask for assist after a still-unidentified man arrived at their home. A 911 dispatcher, Jada Rush, obtained his name, confirmed his handle after which despatched law enforcement officials to the home.

On one of many tapes, Rush will be heard calling Aderrien again to inform him concerning the officers’ arrival. Aderrien stated the person wasn’t permitting his household to go outdoors. Aderrien additionally confirmed to the dispatcher that the unidentified man concerned within the home dispute along with his mom had no weapons.

“OK, [officers] are asking if they have your permission to kick the door in?” Rush then stated.

“Yes,” Aderrien stated.

For a number of seconds throughout the name as officers started to enter the house, the audio went silent — aside from Aderrien’s respiratory, whereas he stayed on the cellphone with 911.

In the background of the decision, Sgt. Greg Capers, one of many officers responding to the incident, is heard saying, “Come out, sir — don’t make us come in.” (This portion of audio matches what’s seen and heard within the body camera footage released by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.)

“Police! If you got any weapons, you better put them down,” Capers says.

Around 5 seconds after Capers requested the query, he opened hearth, capturing the 11-year-old within the chest, the physique digicam footage exhibits. The dialog between officers and people within the house is faintly heard within the background because the 911 dispatcher was nonetheless on the road with Aderrien.

Another recording incorporates a 911 name from Aderrien’s grandmother, telling Rush to ship police to the Murry’s house after Aderrien known as her. Rush confirmed this in her statements to the MBI.

The recordings present extra readability into what occurred the night time of May 20 — notably since Rush’s accounting of the occasions appears to have modified. In paperwork from an interview with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation dated May 20, 2023, Rush instructed investigators that she had been on the cellphone with the 11-year-old.

Photos of two handwritten statements signed by Rush within the MBI information obtained by NPR present that Rush revised her assertion.

In the primary assertion dated May 20, she stated Nakala Murry known as within the home dispute, and never Aderrien or his grandmother. But a second, revised assertion, dated May 25, didn’t title Nakala Murry because the caller.

It continues to be unclear whether or not Rush requested the callers whether or not there have been kids current on the house.

Aderrien survived the capturing. He suffered a collapsed lung, a fractured rib and a lacerated liver from the incident.

The Indianola Police Department didn’t reply to NPR’s request for remark relating to the discharge of the physique digicam footage or the 911 name positioned by Aderrien.

Aderrien’s mom, Nakala Murry, instructed NPR previous to the discharge of each the bodycam footage and the 911 audio recording that the capturing may have been averted.

“Things need to change. People need to show more accountability. Laws need to be [changed],” Murry stated.

Capers has since returned to work with the Indianola Police Department.

In May, the Murry household filed a $5 million federal lawsuit, saying that the law enforcement officials who responded to the incident acted in a method that was “so outrageous that it shocks the moral and legal conscience of the community.”

The lawsuit filed by Carlos Moore, the household’s lawyer, accuses the police of violating Aderrien Murry’s civil rights — particularly the Fourth Amendment’s safety towards the usage of extreme pressure and the 14th Amendment’s assure of due course of.