Mary Bowerman

USA TODAY Network

North Miami Police Chief Gary Eugene declined Thursday to identify the officer who shot an unarmed black man earlier this week. Charles Kinsey, who was trying to calm his patient with autism, said his hands were in the air when he was shot in the leg.

Eugene said during a press conference Thursday that the North Miami Police Department turned the case over to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement on Wednesday morning. He declined requests from reporters to give the name of the officer, or any information on the officer's race.

He noted the Florida State Attorney's office will conduct a separate investigation to determine whether the actions of the shooting officer were warranted or constitute as a criminal act.

"[There are] many questions about what happened on Monday night," Eugene told reporters. "You have questions, the community has questions, we as a city and as a member of the police department, I personally have questions."

Eugene said the incident happened when officers responded to a call that a man with a gun was threatening to shoot himself. Charles Kinsey, a behavioral therapist, told WSVN-TV the man police were searching for was his patient, who had escaped from a nearby group home, and the gun was actually a toy truck.

In cell phone video, which does not show the actual shooting, Kinsey, 47, is seen lying on the ground with his hands in the air.

In the video, he repeatedly assures police the young man does not have a gun.

“All he has is a toy truck in his hands,” Kinsey said in the video. “I am a behavior therapist at a group home.”

Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson called the shooting a "nightmare," and said she was shocked when she saw video of the incident.

"We say to our boys and our men, if you’re ever stopped by the police, 'freeze, don’t move,' ... that’s number one," she said during the conference. "What else could we have told [Kinsey]… what could have saved him from being shot?"

Throughout the incident, Kinsey’s patient refused to comply with police, although Kinsey encouraged him to follow the officers’ directions.

“Rinaldo, please be still,” he said in the clip. “Sit down Rinaldo. Lie on your stomach.”

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Kinsey told WSVN-TV, during the incident he was more worried about the patient than himself.

“I was thinking as long as I have my hands up ... they’re not going to shoot me," he told the station, from his hospital bed.

Kinsey said moments later he was shot in the leg, and then handcuffed while the officers waited for medics to arrive.

On social media, many expressed outrage over the incident, which comes in the midst of increased scrutiny of police involved shootings.

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