In 2017 a Black man was killed by St. Louis police during a no-knock raid, his family has now filed lawsuit against the city and its police department. The suit was filed at the end of June states members of a St. Louis police SWAT team “executed” 63-year-old Army veteran Don Clark Sr. while he was sleeping. Police claim drugs and guns were discovered inside the home and they came under fire upon entering, but Clark’s family says he was unarmed at the time. Along with the raid was based on false information

“Having to just deal with figuring out what had transpired just made me angry, and I’ve been angry ever since. I just feel robbed. My family was robbed,” Ashley Boureima Mourou, one of Clark’s children, said at a news conference.

The lawsuit obtained by Atlanta Black Star says Clark suffered from a range of health issues and infirmities that made it hard for him to hear and see clearly. Clark’s youngest daughter, an 8-year-old girl, stayed in the only bedroom in the home but wasn’t there the night of the raid. The suit says in order to obtain a no-knock warrant base on falsified information, Detective Thomas Strode “used boilerplate language, and lied about his surveillance.” Clark was deprived of his right to be free from unlawful seizure under the Fourth Amendment, according to the suit.

The family’s legal team says the night of Clark’s death police entered Clark’s home on the night of Feb. 21, 2017, by breaking down the door and did not identify themselves. The police detonated a flash-bang device that caused a loud sound and bright flash which led to him to become disoriented. 17 officers descended on Clark’s home. Nicholas Manasco shot Clark to death according to the suit, which stated he was shot nine times.  Defendants waited until after “crucial minutes had passed” to call emergency services, the suit says. Clark would later died from his injuries.