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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Wagster Pettus

Attorney demands firing of Mississippi police officer after 11-year-old boy is shot

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded an unarmed 11-year-old Black boy in the child's home should be fired, an attorney for the child's mother said Thursday.

The child, Aderrien Murry, was hospitalized five days for a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and fractured ribs after an Indianola Police Department officer shot him in the chest early Saturday, attorney Carlos Moore said. Aderrian returned home to Indianola on Wednesday.

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