Ex-Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver, 32, gave his first detailed account of the fatal April shooting of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards on Tuesday in response to a wrongful death lawsuit brought against him by the teen’s father. Related Image Expand / CollapseTEXAS OFFICER FACING MURDER CHARGE FREE ON BAILOliver said he and his colleague, officer Tyler Gross, ran to their patrol vehicles and retrieved patrol rifles. Body camera footage of the incident showed Oliver shooting his rifle into a car that was moving away from him and Tyler. Oliver's is the second indictment of a police officer for a fatal shooting in Dallas County in less than a month after almost 43 years without an indictment of an officer. Former Dallas officer Christopher Hess was indicted on an aggravated assault charge for shooting into a moving car more than a dozen times in January, striking and killing 21-year-old Genevive Dawes.

Source: Fox News July 19, 2017 15:33 UTC