GULFPORT, Miss — The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation released body cam and dash cam video of the fatal police shooting of 15-year-old Jaheim McMillan.
The video was a key piece of evidence for the grand jury that cleared law enforcement officers in the case.
The video shown above is a combination of dashboard camera and body camera footage from police at the scene. It was edited by the MBI to highlight and slowdown certain portions of the video.
WWL-TV also edited parts of the video, adding a blur effect to protect the identities of the minors on the scene and cover McMillan's body.
A Gulfport Police officer shot 15-year-old Jaheim McMillan in the head Oct. 6 after police pulled over a car carrying the teen and other minors. McMillan, a Gulfport High School freshman, died two days later at a hospital in Mobile, Alabama.
On Wednesday, Feb. 22, a Mississippi grand jury found “no criminal conduct” by a law enforcement officer who fatally shot a Black teenager last fall outside a discount store in Gulfport, state Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation examined the case, as it does with all shootings involving law enforcement officers. Fitch said in a statement that her office presented information from that investigation to a Harrison County grand jury earlier this month.
Because the grand jury declined to indict anyone in the shooting, Fitch said her office will take no further action in the case.
McMillan's death prompted protests in Gulfport, with local residents, Black Lives Matter group members, national civil rights figures and other activists demanding the officer involved be charged and calling for the release of police body camera footage of the shooting.
Gulfport police said in a news release soon after the shooting that it occurred after they responded to a 911 call about several minors waving guns at other cars. Officers pulled the minors over in the parking lot of a Family Dollar store.
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