“Out of the blue, he said he got shot, he got hit,” Williams explained. “I don’t know where it came from. Nobody said anything. They didn’t say, ‘Police.’ They didn’t say, ‘Freeze.’ They didn’t say, ‘Drop your weapon.’ They just shot him. I could see the blood splattering across his shirt. He collapsed in the living room.”

Williams says she called 911 but instead was met with “30-something officers with guns pointing at us, telling us to get down and come out of the house with our hands up.”

The father was taken to the Hospital, where he later died.

Canton police released a statement, “The officer, who was outside of his vehicle, confronted a subject that began shooting a firearm. The officer, in fear for his safety, fired his duty weapon at the subject and struck him.”

However, body camera footage released on Wednesday, Jan. 5, confirmed Williams’ alleges her husband was shot without warning.

In video the shooting officer, whose name has not been released, hears the shots, draws his weapon, walks towards the fence, and blindly fires at least four times through the fence. The officer never identified himself or talked with the victim.

The video shows another officer taking cover behind a cruiser and yelling, “Show me your (expletive) hands” Williams stepped onto the home’s front porch.

At a vigil, Williams said, “It makes me hurt. [The officer] got to go home to his family. My husband didn’t.”

Activist Sierra Mason called it a double standard that the officer shot “senselessly at a Black family for doing the same thing his white friends were doing.”

The officer has since been placed on administrative leave and the investigation is ongoing.