another case of the thin blue line going red; 

Gary, IN — An 82-year-old “granddaddy” fought for his life for two months after police shot him but unfortunately succumbed to his injuries and died. According to the family, Melvin Bouler is partially deaf and couldn’t hear the police commands, so an officer filled him full of holes. Now, a year and a half later and we are learning that the officer who killed Bouler will not be charged.

According to police, they responded to a call on a Sunday afternoon on November 17, 2019 after someone reported a man with a gun. According to the family, Melvin Bouler, 82, was getting into his car and leaving when police arrived.

As ABC 7 reported, Adjanay Okoe is not related to Bouler by blood, but said he’s taken care of her since she was a child and thinks of him as her grandfather. She said he was visiting her mother when he got into an argument with her mother’s boyfriend, who called police. She said, however, he was already being helped into his car to go home when officers arrived.

“My mom was trying to help my granddaddy,” Okoe said. “You know my granddaddy is old, so she was trying to help him in the car and get him home … and then the police pulled up. I guess they were trying to give him instructions.”

Witnesses said they heard arguing between a man and a woman just prior to the police arriving, after which they heard officers yelling at the man as he sat inside a car. Then, about a dozen gunshots rang out.

Police claim that Bouler was sitting in his car and pulled a gun and pointed it at the officer when he arrived..........read and watch more.....