Cop Who Shot a 15 Year Old Leaving a Party Takes the Stand and it DOES NOT END WELL!

Around 11 pm on April 29, 2017, two Balch Springs, Texas officers, Tyler Gross and Roy Oliver, answered a 911 call about underage drinking at a house party on Baron Drive. As the party broke up, gunfire went off in a parking lot nearby. Jordan Edwards, 15, a freshman at Mesquite High School, was leaving in a Chevy Impala driven by his 16 year old brother, with his other brother and two friends in the back. Gross walked up to the car, shouted for it to stop, and broke the back passenger window with his pistol. A third of a second later Oliver fired five rifle rounds into the car. One struck Jordan in the head and killed him.

The next day the police department said the car had been backing toward the officers "in an aggressive manner". After the chief watched the body camera, he said that was wrong: the car was moving forward as the officers approached. Oliver was fired, charged with murder, and indicted.

At his trial in August 2018 his partner testified that he never feared for his life and never fired. The state's video analyst, Grant Fredericks, testified that the car was already past Gross when the first shot was fired. Oliver took the stand and told the jury the car came forward toward his partner and he had no other option. Then came the cross examination.