Ex-officer Roy Oliver guilty of murder for killing Jordan Edwards
Jury convicts white former Texas police officer who shot and killed 15-year-old African American in April 2017.
A Texas jury has found a white former police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager last year guilty of murder.
Roy Oliver shot into a car full of teenagers as they were leaving a party in the Dallas suburb of Balch Springs in April 2017.
Fifteen-year-old Jordan Edwards, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was struck and killed.
"It's been a hard year ... I'm just really happy," Edwards's father, Odell, told reporters at the court after the verdict on Tuesday.
At the time of the shooting, Oliver claimed the vehicle was trying to run over his partner, but several witness accounts and body-cam footage showed the car was moving away from the officer.
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