A Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded an unarmed 11-year-old boy after the child called 911 to stop a domestic dispute will face no charges.

A grand jury found that Indianola Police Sgt. Greg Capers did not engage in criminal conduct when he shot Aderrien Murry in the chest on May 20 while responding to a domestic dispute. 

Murry was hospitalized for five days with a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and fractured ribs from the gunshot wound in his chest.

The Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, which presented the case to a Sunflower County grand jury, announced the decision last week. 

In a statement, Murry’s attorney Carlos Moore said the family would seek accountability through a $5million federal civil lawsuit.

A grand jury found that Indianola Police Sgt. Greg Capers (pictured right) did not engage in criminal conduct when he shot Aderrien Murry (pictured left) in the chest on May 20 while responding to a domestic dispute 

Aderrien said the bullet ‘felt like a Taser, like a big punch to the chest’ and believed he was going to die

‘While the grand jury has spoken, we firmly believe that there are unanswered questions and that the shooting of Aderrien Murry was not justified,’ Moore said. 

‘We are committed to seeking justice for Aderrien and his family.’

Reached by phone Thursday, Michael Carr, Capers’ attorney, said the officer had suffered personally and financially due to the case and the grand jury made the right decision.

‘Sgt. Capers is relieved at the result, and he is glad that the citizens of Sunflower County reached the fair and correct result,’ Carr said. 

‘He is looking forward to continuing to serve the citizens of Sunflower County and the city of Indianola.’

The Indianola Board of Aldermen voted in June to place Capers on unpaid administrative leave. 

Capers, who was named the best officer in Indianola in 2021, cannot return to work and get paid unless the Board votes to take him off leave, Carr said.

Indianola is a town of about 9,300 residents in the rural Mississippi Delta, about 95 miles northwest of Jackson.

In a statement, Murry’s attorney Carlos Moore said the family would seek accountability through a federal civil lawsuit 

Aderrien Murry was woken up at around 4am on May 20 by the sound of his mother’s ex-boyfriend – the father of one of Murry’s siblings – behaving threateningly, so she asked him to call the police. 

When officers from Indianola Police Department arrived moments later, Aderrien said he was asked to step out of his room. 

When he did, he was shot, and was lucky to survive. 

The boy told Good Morning America that he felt ‘a big punch’ when he was shot.

He said he began singing gospel songs to sustain himself as he staggered towards the door. 

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‘I came out doing this,’ he said, with his arms raised, during an interview with ABC News. 

‘It felt like a taser, like a big punch to the chest.

Aderrien Murry, 11, described the moment he was shot in the chest by Mississippi police after calling 911 during an interview with ABC News

Aderrien Murry was awoken at around 4am on May 20 to the sound of his mother’s ex-boyfriend behaving threateningly outside the house (pictured) so he was asked to call the police

‘I was bleeding, bleeding from my mouth. 

‘Then I would just remember singing a song.’

When asked which song he was singing, Aderrien said: ‘No weapon formed against me prosper shall’ – referring to the Bible verse, Isaiah 54:17: ‘No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.’

His mother, Nakala Murry, has called for Capers to be charged and fired.

She described giving her son the phone and asking him to call his grandmother, after she woke up, heard a knock on the window, and saw her ex-boyfriend standing outside. 

‘I noticed he was kind of irate. And from dealing with him in the past, I know the irate version of him, what it could lead to,’ she told Good Morning America.

Aderrien called 911 and his grandmother, who in turn also called 911.

Nakala claimed when the officer arrived he ‘had his gun drawn at the front door and asked those inside the home to come outside.’

This undated image courtesy of attorney Carlos Moore shows Aderrien Murry, 11, with the family attorney 

Capers, named the best officer in Indianola in 2021, cannot return to work and get paid unless the Board votes to take him off leave, Carr said

She added: ‘Once he was like, come out with your hands up, at that moment is when my son came out.’

She also spoke of the moment she put her hand over her son’s wound to apply pressure while he ‘sang gospel songs and prayed while bleeding out’. 

‘He was like: ‘I don’t want to die’ – that’s what he was saying,’ she said. 

‘I said: ‘You’re not going to die, baby, you’re not going to die, just keep talking’.’

She previously said that the officer who fired the gun also tried to help by putting his hand over hers to try to stop Aderrien’s bleeding

With the grand jury’s decision, the Attorney General’s Office said no further criminal action at the state level would be taken against Capers.