New York: Just after 1 o'clock in the afternoon on Monday, a woman phoned the Dekalb Police Department in Georgia, telling them there was a naked man lying on the ground outside.

According to a police report on the incident, the African-American man appeared "demented". She told police that the man, later identified as Anthony Hill, had been crawling around on the ground outside the apartment complex. He tried to come inside the maintenance office where she was, but she had already locked the door. A couple of maintenance workers stepped in and escorted Mr Hill back to his apartment in the same building.

But he left his apartment, jumping off the second floor balcony, still naked. Mobile phone video footage obtained by a local TV station shows Hill, young and fit but seemingly disoriented, pacing around slowly, and lying on the ground.

These were the last moments of Mr Hill's life. Soon after police arrived on the scene, an officer shot him dead.