The 11-year-old boy shot by a Mississippi cop after calling 911 during a domestic disturbance was crying out that he didn’t want to die as he was bleeding out on the floor of his home.
Aderrien Murry took a bullet to the chest after an officer who was responding to the boy’s call for help opened fire on him inside his Indianola home in the early hours of May 20.
The boy, who had alerted 911 after his mom’s ex-boyfriend turned up at the home and allegedly started acting irately, told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday that he put his hands up in the air when cops entered — but they shot him anyway.
“It felt like a Taser, like a big punch to the chest,” Aderrien said of the moment he was struck.
“I was bleeding — bleeding from my mouth.”
The injured boy recalled singing gospel verses and praying as his mom desperately applied pressure to his wound.
“He was like, ‘I don’t want to die,’ that’s what he was saying,” his mom, Nakala Murry, recalled. “I said, ‘You’re not going to die, baby, you’re not going to die, just keep talking.'”
Aderrien was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was treated in intensive care for a collapsed lung and a cut on his liver.
He has since been released and is recovering at home, but said he still has trouble breathing.
“It was God that saved my life and I truly truly believe that,” the little boy said.
The ordeal unfolded after his mom said she woke at about 4 a.m. to find her ex-boyfriend, who has a history of violence, knocking on the window of the home.
“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,” Nakala said last week.
She told her son to call his grandmother for help but Aderrien decided to call the cops first, telling them no one was armed.
When officers arrived, Nakala claimed one of them already had his gun drawn and ordered her to leave the home.
Moments later, she heard the gunshot.
“I heard a shot and I saw my son run out toward where we were,” she said. “He fell, bleeding. I put pressure on it to stop, help stop the bleeding.”
The officer who fired the shot, Greg Capers, was suspended as the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation probes the shooting.
Indianola Police Department hasn’t commented on the officer-involved shooting.
