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A Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded an unarmed 11-year-old Black boy in the child’s home has been suspended without pay JACKSON, Miss. -- A Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded an unarmed 11-year-old Black boy in the child’s home has been suspended without pay, a city official said Tuesday. The Indianola Board of Aldermen voted Monday night to immediately stop paying Sgt. Greg Capers, board member Marvin Elder said Tuesday. Capers, who is Black, had previously been suspended with pay, according to Carlos Moore, the attorney representing the family of the boy, Aderrien Murry. Moore said the family is still pushing to get Capers fired. "He needs to be terminated and he needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Moore said. Aderrien Murry was hospitalized for five days with a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and fractured ribs after Capers shot him in the chest May 20, Moore said. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is examining the case, as...

An 11-year-old was shot dead and a woman in her 20s is in critical condition after shots were fired at a car in Albuquerque near Isotopes Park. Albuquerque police are investigating after an 11-year-old boy was fatally shot and a woman was critically injured in a car near a minor league baseball stadium late Wednesday. Police said someone fired "several shots " at a truck that the boy and woman were in as it was moving. The woman , believed to be in her 20s, was taken to an area hospital, police said. Homicide detectives with the Albuquerque Police Department are investigating a fatal shooting with a teenage victim who was killed when shots were fired into a car. An adult victim was also taken to the hospital. KOAT Albuquerque officers were near Isotopes Park, where the Colorado Rockies' Triple-A team were playing a Game , when they heard what they thought were shots being fired , Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina said at a press conference. Two officers arrived at...

A 14-year-old girl is accused of shooting and killing an 11-year-old bystander after she was allegedly aiming at someone else, according to police. A 14-year- old girl is accused of shooting and killing an 11-year- old after she was allegedly aiming at someone else, according to police. The shooting unfolded at a Dallas apartment complex at about 2 p.m. Sunday, the Dallas Police Department said. Two girls were fighting in the parking lot, and one of the girls, a 14-year- old, "retrieved a handgun and shot in the direction of the female she was fighting," according to police. MORE: 6 family members, including baby, shot dead at home in targeted 'massacre': Sheriff But the bullet hit a bystander, an 11-year- old boy, authorities said. The boy was taken to a hospital where he died, police said. The 14-year-old suspect, who has not been identified, allegedly fled the scene and was later found at another apartment complex, police said. She's being held at the Henry...

The mother and stepfather of Madalina Cojocari, 11, who has been missing for weeks, were arrested for allegedly failing to report to her disappearance, police said. The mother and stepfather of Madalina Cojocari, 11, who has been missing for weeks, were arrested on Saturday for allegedly failing to report her disappearance, police said. The 11-year- old was last seen at home in Cornelius, North Carolina, about three weeks before her school was notified on Dec. 15 that she was missing , according to law enforcement officials. Two undated images of Madalina Cojocari, 11, released by the FBI. FBI "The parents of the juvenile reported the juvenile missing to the Bailey Middle School SRO where the juvenile attends school," the Cornelius Police Department said in a statement on Friday. "The juvenile was last seen at home, on the evening of November 23, 2022, and has not been seen since." The FBI and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation are working with the Cor...