The family of a deaf man shot and killed by an Oklahoma City police officer earlier this month held a news conference Saturday afternoon, calling for an independent investigation into the shooting.Magdiel Sanchez’s family is still shaken up about the death, and, through its attorneys, is calling for three agencies to look into his death. Attorneys Melvin Hall and Damario Solomon Simmons are asking for the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney’s Office to investigate the deadly shooting.Officers responded Sept. 19 to a call about a hit-and-run near Southeast 57th Street and South Shield Boulevard. They encountered a truck they thought was involved and approached a home, where the suspect’s son, 35-year-old Sanchez, confronted officers with what they said was a metal pipe.The officers shot and killed the Sanchez, who was deaf and nonverbal. Neighbors said they yelled at police that he could not understand them.Simmons said the Oklahoma City Police Department should be disqualified from investigating the shooting because his firm feels the department cannot do so fairly.“We don’t believe that the Oklahoma City Police Department, who’s already come out publicly and tried to taint the investigation by stating they know what Magdiel understood, by stating they don’t know their officers didn’t hear the witnesses. How do they know that?” Simmons asked.KOCO 5 has reached out to the three agencies whose services the family have requested. OSBI officials said they will only investigate if they are requested by a legal requester and, therefore, by law, they politely declined the request for an investigation.

The family of a deaf man shot and killed by an Oklahoma City police officer earlier this month held a news conference Saturday afternoon, calling for an independent investigation into the shooting.

Magdiel Sanchez’s family is still shaken up about the death, and, through its attorneys, is calling for three agencies to look into his death. Attorneys Melvin Hall and Damario Solomon Simmons are asking for the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney’s Office to investigate the deadly shooting.

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Officers responded Sept. 19 to a call about a hit-and-run near Southeast 57th Street and South Shield Boulevard. They encountered a truck they thought was involved and approached a home, where the suspect’s son, 35-year-old Sanchez, confronted officers with what they said was a metal pipe.

The officers shot and killed the Sanchez, who was deaf and nonverbal. Neighbors said they yelled at police that he could not understand them.

Simmons said the Oklahoma City Police Department should be disqualified from investigating the shooting because his firm feels the department cannot do so fairly.

“We don’t believe that the Oklahoma City Police Department, who’s already come out publicly and tried to taint the investigation by stating they know what Magdiel understood, by stating they don’t know their officers didn’t hear the witnesses. How do they know that?” Simmons asked.

KOCO 5 has reached out to the three agencies whose services the family have requested. OSBI officials said they will only investigate if they are requested by a legal requester and, therefore, by law, they politely declined the request for an investigation.