Jordan Edwards

According to initial reports, the officers were responding around 11:00 p.m. to a 911 call “reporting several underage kids drunk walking around” at a party of approximately 100 people.^[1][2][5] Upon arrival, the officers allegedly heard gunshots, which created panic and caused party-goers to flee. Officer Roy Oliver fired three rifle rounds into a vehicle, striking Edwards (age 15) in the head and killing him. Oliver was reportedly armed with a Modern Carbine MC5 rifle. Along with Edwards, the car contained two of Edwards’s brothers and two friends. Edwards’s 16-year-old brother was driving the car. Lee Merritt, a lawyer for Edwards’s family, said Oliver shot through the front passenger side window. Edwards was pronounced dead at a local hospital. According to police, Edwards’s brother was held in police custody overnight for the purpose of questioning him as a witness. Police originally said there was an “unknown altercation with a vehicle backing down the street towards the officers in an aggressive manner”. After reviewing body cam footage, Police Chief Jonathan Haber later admitted that the vehicle was not moving toward the officers, but rather away from them. Haber said he had “misspoke”, saying, “I was unintentionally incorrect yesterday when I said that the victim’s vehicle was backing down the road.”A later statement by the police department said, “The vehicle then pulled forward as the officer continued to approach the vehicle giving verbal commands. The vehicle continued [on] the main roadway driving away from the officer as an officer shot into the vehicle striking the passenger.”Oliver was fired from the police department as a result of the shooting. He had been a member of the Balch Springs Police Department for six years.

Source: Wikipedia