Family challenges police account of fatal St Barbs shooting

The rel­a­tives of 28-year-old An­dell Lee are de­mand­ing an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to his fa­tal shoot­ing by po­lice in St Barbs, Laven­tille, on Thurs­day, in­sist­ing the of­fi­cial ac­count of the in­ci­dent does not match what fam­i­ly mem­bers and res­i­dents say oc­curred.

Lee’s sis­ter, Anel­ka, said the fam­i­ly was strug­gling to come to terms with his death, es­pe­cial­ly as their moth­er, a for­mer po­lice of­fi­cer, died last year.

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The fa­ther of two is re­port­ed to have opened fire on po­lice of­fi­cers when they vis­it­ed his First Ham­let Trace, St Barbs home around 4 am on Thurs­day.