The rel­a­tives of Kwasi Pe­gus are call­ing for more in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing his killing by po­lice.

Of­fi­cers said Pe­gus, 24, was part of a group of men who fled an aban­doned house on Mafek­ing Branch Trace, off Mafek­ing Road, Ma­yaro, on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice claimed that Pe­gus shot at of­fi­cers, who re­turned fire, killing him. A black and sil­ver pis­tol be­lieved to have been used by Pe­gus was found at the scene.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, yes­ter­day, Pe­gus’ rel­a­tives ques­tioned the ac­cu­ra­cy of the po­lice re­port.

One rel­a­tive, who asked not to be named, said Pe­gus, who is from La Ro­main, told the fam­i­ly that he and a rel­a­tive were vis­it­ing a beach house in Ma­yaro.

An­oth­er rel­a­tive said she spoke with one of Pe­gus’ friends who claimed he was un­armed when the shoot­ing be­gan.

“From what we heard he was stand­ing in the yard, his friend told him to run, he said he wasn’t run­ning be­cause he didn’t have any­thing il­le­gal on him.

“His friend ran and heard some shots.

“The peo­ple around said he was beg­ging for his life,” said the rel­a­tive who added, “I want to see jus­tice for my nephew. I want the truth to come out ex­act­ly what it is hap­pened be­cause I doubt you’re a mad per­son to just walk up to some­one and shoot them with­out ask­ing.”

A po­lice re­port stat­ed the shoot­ing oc­curred around 10 am, but rel­a­tives said Pe­gus re­mained uniden­ti­fied late in­to Wednes­day evening.

She not­ed rel­a­tives called Pe­gus on Tues­day to pick up a doc­u­ment that was de­liv­ered to their home.

At the time, Pe­gus said he was re­lax­ing at the beach house.

“The next thing we know is the moth­er got a phone call at 2 o’clock yes­ter­day that her son was killed,” the rel­a­tive said.

One rel­a­tive said they al­so called for an­swers on why the po­lice vis­it­ed the home where Pe­gus was shot.

She said ini­tial in­for­ma­tion im­plied that the men were in­volved in an as­sault and rob­bery at a su­per­mar­ket, but fur­ther in­for­ma­tion sug­gest­ed the vis­it may have been part of en­quiries in­to the dis­cov­ery of a quan­ti­ty of co­caine on a beach in Ma­yaro.

Con­tact­ed for com­ment, an of­fi­cer in the East­ern Di­vi­sion said the of­fi­cers were with­in their rights to de­fend them­selves. He, how­ev­er, sought to as­sure the fam­i­ly that all po­lice-in­volved shoot­ings were tak­en se­ri­ous­ly and would be in­ves­ti­gat­ed by a se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer.

He said of­fi­cers vis­it­ed the area on Wednes­day as part of “gen­er­al en­quiries” but could not con­firm if the shoot­ing was about the seizure of co­caine.

“It’s an on­go­ing en­quiry at the mo­ment.”