A decorated Mississippi police officer will not face criminal charges even though earlier this year, he shot an 11-year-old boy who had called 911 to report a possible domestic incident.

At around 4 a.m. on May 20, 911 dispatchers received a call from a residence in Indianola, Mississippi, a city of over 10,000 residents about 100 miles north of Jackson. It turns out that Nakala Murry had asked her 11-year-old son, Aderrien Murry, to call the police after her ex-boyfriend, the father of one of Aderrien’s siblings, had come over in an “irate” mood.

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