Aderrien Murry, the 11-year-old boy who was shot by police after calling 911, was shot without warning, his family claims in a lawsuit.
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"This is a claim for negligence and excessive force," said the complaint, which also named the city of Indianola, Police Chief Ronald Sampson and John Does. Indianola Mayor Ken Featherstone and the Indianola Police Department did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment.Before his family announced the suit, Aderrien spoke out about the harrowing experience in an exclusive interview that aired on "Good Morning America" and "GMA3" on Tuesday.
Murry told ABC News she gave Aderrien the phone and asked him to call his grandmother after she said she woke up around 4 a.m., heard a knock on the window and saw her ex-boyfriend standing outside. According to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, which is investigating the incident, officers responded to a domestic disturbance at the home and a minor was significantly hurt from an "officer-involved shooting."
"With living in the South, Mississippi, especially, sometimes you feel that you can trust the police a little more when they [are] your own color, your own race," Moore said, referring to the fact that Capers is Black. "But now this man, this young boy, would never trust law enforcement again."
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