{"id":9690,"date":"2018-08-29T09:54:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=9690"},"modified":"2018-08-29T09:54:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T16:54:19","slug":"roy-oliver-former-texas-police-officer-found-guilty-of-murder-in-jordan-edwards-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=9690","title":{"rendered":"Roy Oliver, former Texas police officer, found guilty of murder in Jordan Edwards shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The mother of Jordan Edwards thanked jurors Tuesday for convicting her son’s killer\u00a0rather than letting him “walk away.”<\/p>\n

“The police just walk away and don’t have to give account for anything,” Charmaine Edwards testified in the punishment phase of Roy Oliver’s trial. “I’m forever grateful that y’all seen it in your hearts to see that it was wrong.”<\/p>\n

Earlier Tuesday, the\u00a0Dallas County jury convicted\u00a0the former Balch Springs police officer of murder for shooting\u00a0the unarmed\u00a015-year-old as he left a\u00a0party with his brothers and two friends in April 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Roy Oliver was found guilty of murder and not guilty on two counts of aggravated assault.<\/div>\n
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Oliver, 38, was found not guilty, however, on two counts of aggravated assault for firing his rifle into the car full of teens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Oh, praise God!” someone exclaimed outside the courtroom as the Edwards family and friends quickly flooded the hallway, smiling and hugging one another.<\/p>\n

Oliver’s wife, Ingrid, broke down in tears as she left the courtroom. She and Oliver have a 3-year-old son with autism.<\/p>\n

The former officer, who was fired from the force not long after the shooting,\u00a0was immediately taken into custody, and his bond was revoked.<\/p>\n

He faces up to life in prison when testimony resumes Wednesday in the trial’s punishment phase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the hallway after the verdict was read, Jordan’s father, Odell Edwards, embraced supporters, rocking them from side to side as he wiped tears from his reddened eyes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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