Murder rap for Texas cop as black teen dies

A TEXAS police officer who allegedly fired into a carful of teens, killing a 15-year-old AfricanAmerican boy, turned himself in on Friday after being charged with murder, authorities said.

Roy Oliver, 37, who is white, was one of two police officers responding to a call about underage drinking at a party in a Dallas suburb on the night of April 29. Jordan Edwards and four others were leaving the party in their car after hearing gunfire. Oliver fired a rifle into the car, hitting the teen in the head, reports said.

The shooting is the latest killing of an African-American by a white police officer in a string of similar cases that have fuelled outrage across the US and given rise to the Black Lives Matter movement.

According to a Washington Post tally, Edwards was the youngest of the 339 people shot and killed by US police so far this year. —