Police Shooting

Former police officer Roy Oliver was charged with murder for fatally shooting Jordan Edwards, 15, in the back as the teen sat in a car that was leaving a party.

Protests have continued in St. Louis following the September 15 acquittal of Jason Stockley, a White former police officer who shot and killed 24-year-old Black man, Anthony Lamar Smith, in 2011.

Though news of police shootings has become commonplace in Texas and throughout the nation, disciplinary action against an officer isn’t typical and a murder indictment is almost unheard of.

Fifteen-year-old Jordan Edwards was fatally shot in the head by a Texas police officer after leaving a party over the weekend, and his death ruled a homicide.