The rel­a­tives of 74-year-old Frank Alan Sandy are de­mand­ing an­swers and a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion af­ter he was shot and killed by an off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer, who lived al­most next to his house.

Sandy’s rel­a­tives be­lieve he was con­fused and dis­ori­ent­ed, as he had been suf­fer­ing from wors­en­ing mem­o­ry loss and pos­si­bly thought he was try­ing to get back in­to his own home. He was killed af­ter re­turn­ing from a morn­ing walk in Mt St George, To­ba­go.

Po­lice said around 5 am, a po­lice con­sta­ble claimed the el­der­ly man tried to break in­to his home and charged at him with an ob­ject in his hand. The of­fi­cer said he feared for his life and fired his li­cenced firearm, hit­ting Sandy three times.