The family of a Florida Institute of Technologies scholar who was fatally shot on campus last week by police and school stability officers is launching an independent investigation into the lethal use of power.

Law enforcement responded to the Melbourne campus shortly before 11 p.m. Friday right after stories of a man armed with a knife attacking college students.

A Melbourne Police Department officer and university stability confronted the male, recognized by police as 18-year-outdated Alhaji Sow, in a campus creating. Equally fired their weapons, hanging him, following Sow allegedly “lunged” at the law enforcement officer with an “edged weapon,” Melbourne law enforcement stated next the incident. He died at the scene.

Sow’s spouse and children has given that employed a law agency to investigate the incident and why non-deadly techniques have been not employed by the faculty security officer to subdue the teen, lawyers stated Wednesday.

“On a college campus, there will undoubtedly be mental overall health crises that will have to be resolved by the officers of that campus, and they do not often demand lethal force,” Greg Francis, a associate at the business Osborne & Francis, claimed in the course of a press briefing with the family members. “But campus safety officers’ only mechanism of dealing with learners is a gun. Untold life will unnecessarily be misplaced and/or negatively impacted.”

Francis mentioned the investigation will also appear at the disaster management teaching for Melbourne police officers and Florida Tech safety officers.

“We will get to the base of this unbelievably horrific scenario. We will get solutions for these parents and other college students on the Florida Tech campus,” Francis explained. “We do not want a further daily life to be taken senselessly.”

Sow’s father instructed reporters that the household was on the lookout ahead to Sow coming home for the holiday seasons. “But regretably, that is not heading to materialize,” he mentioned. ” We just want to know why. Why Alhaji have to die like this? We want to know why.”

Francis mentioned they are even now investigating what prompted the incident, and that Sow experienced no heritage of mental ailment.