Rel­a­tives of a man who was shot dead by an off du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer he was al­leged­ly at­tempt­ing to rob are ques­tion­ing the po­lice ver­sion of the in­ci­dent.

Po­lice said Acki­mo Cob­ham, of Mara­bel­la, was killed af­ter he and his friend at­tempt­ed to rob a po­lice sergeant of his ve­hi­cle at gun­point on Fri­day night. How­ev­er, Cob­ham’s aunt, De­bra Sandy, is dis­put­ing the po­lice re­port and wants in­ves­ti­ga­tors to re­view sur­veil­lance footage from near­by hous­es.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the of­fi­cer, a court pros­e­cu­tor, went to New Haven Av­enue to vis­it rel­a­tives and was sit­ting in his white AD wag­on at around 7.30 pm when two men, dressed in dark cloth­ing and each armed with a firearm, ac­cost­ed him. One of them tried to open the front pas­sen­ger door while the oth­er one stood on the dri­ver’s side point­ing a gun at the of­fi­cer.

The sergeant grabbed his li­censed firearm and shot both men. Cob­ham was shot twice and died on the scene. His gun fell out of his hand and land­ed on the ground. Cob­ham’s ac­com­plice was al­so shot, but he ran off.

The po­lice searched the area, in­clud­ing an aban­doned house, af­ter re­ceiv­ing in­for­ma­tion that the sus­pect might be hid­ing there, but he was not found. Some­time lat­er, the in­jured man went to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal bleed­ing from a gun­shot wound to the hip. He is ward­ed in a sta­ble con­di­tion.

Sandy, who lives a few hous­es away from where Cob­ham was killed, is de­mand­ing a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion of the in­ci­dent. She said her nephew was at home with his friend when some­one called him out on­to the street.

“He wasn’t at the house where they say he went to shoot up the car, he was down the street. He was sit­ting on a cul­vert and the po­lice guy walk straight down the cul­vert and met them there. I can’t say what they were talk­ing about be­cause I was not there,” she said.

She said her nephew was shot in the head and when his friend start­ed to run, he was shot.

Sandy said Cob­ham al­ways felt the po­lice want­ed to kill him.

She said Cob­ham was ar­rest­ed and charged for rob­bing a gas sta­tion at Pointe-a-Pierre last year.

Cob­ham’s fa­ther, Ruthven Sandy, 63, was one of three peo­ple killed in a shoot­ing in­ci­dent at a bar in Mara­bel­la in Oc­to­ber 2017.

ASP Ali Mo­hammed, In­sp Ram­sumair, PCs Khan, Ram­cha­ran, Nathoo, Meah, and oth­er of­fi­cers of the Emer­gency Rapid Re­sponse, Mara­bel­la CID and San Fer­nan­do CID vis­it­ed the scene of the shoot­ing on Fri­day night. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.