15-year-old Jordan Edwards was shot in the head by a police officer in a Dallas suburb over the weekend as a bullet came through the side of a car he was traveling in, they had just recently left a party. Police had been responding to an incident in the area when they came across the car and an original account claimed the car backed up at them in an aggressive manner.

Well, video evidence has surfaced essentially saying that is bullsh*t and the police chief gave a press conference to confirm so, opening up this as a homicide. Good news but it will do nothing to bring the life of Jordan back.

The NYTimes reported:

The Police Department in Balch Springs, Tex., said Sunday that the officer, whose name has not been released, fired on a car carrying the teenager, Jordan Edwards, a freshman at Mesquite High School in Balch Springs, because the car was reversing down a street toward the officer in an “aggressive manner.”

But Jonathan Haber, the police chief, told reporters at a news conference on Monday afternoon that video showed the opposite. He said the officer fired when the car was “moving forward as the officers approached,” according to The Associated Press. The Dallas County medical examiner’s report ruled the death a homicide caused by a “rifle wound” to the head.

Lee Merritt, a lawyer for the Edwards family, praised the police chief for his willingness to admit the department’s mistake and called the new account “a big deal.”

“There were no weapons involved; there was no aggressive behavior; these were not suspects,” Mr. Merritt said in a telephone interview. “The lone motive they had for the murder was that the vehicle was being used as a weapon, and now that is no longer there.”

Efforts to reach officials with the Police Department after Monday’s news conference were unsuccessful.

Mr. Merritt called the change in the department’s account “a hopeful sign” about the transparency of the investigation, but he said the authorities needed to do more.

“They have a dead child, they have the identity of the shooter, and they have no explanation for the shooting,” Mr. Merritt said. “They have more than sufficient probable cause to make an arrest.”

Pressure needs to be kept up and arrests need to be made to try and get some justice for the lost life of an innocent child.