Police Fatally Shoot Grandfather, 72, While Searching Wrong Home For Burglar, Blame 'Poor Lighting'7/27/13- Police in Fort Worth, Texas, are blaming "poor lighting" after twoofficers went to the wrong home in search of a possible burglar andended up shooting a 72-year-old man dead in his garage. The officers,who are both in their first year with Fort Worth PD, were responding to aburglary alarm on May 28 when the tragic mistake occurred. "Due to poorlighting conditions, and officers attempting to arrive on the sceneundetected," the cops approached the home of Jerry Waller by mistake,according to an affidavit. The house they were actually supposed to goto was across the street. The two officers, B.B Hanlon and ArpieHoeppner, were searching around the home with their flashlights whenWaller emerged from his home armed with a handgun, investigating who waswalking around his property with flashlights.Police radio transmissions obtained by NBC DFW captured what happened next:"Theguy came out with a gun and wouldn't put the gun down,' Officer Hanlonsaid. 'He pointed it at Hoeppner, Hoeppner fired," Hanlon said. Both ofthe officers claim they identified themselves as police officers andtold Waller to drop his firearm. They claim he instead lifted hisfirearm and pointed it at them. The police department is claiming theman was shot in self-defense. However, Waller's widow, Kathy, told NBCDFW that she was "disgusted" with the "trigger happy" officers." Shesaid her slain husband grabbed his .38-cal. handgun after seeing lightsoutside their bedroom and reported hearing yelling moments before Wallerwas shot dead.Further, the man's daughter, Angie, said she was"disturbed by suggestions that police may have felt threatened by a manin his own garage faced with unknown trespassers yielding flashlights."Waller'sfamily is calling for an independent investigation into the incident.The family has also accused the police department of "misrepresentingdetails of the incident" in media interviews.