From [HERE] A New Castle County councilman wants a federal investigation of the latest fatal shooting by a county cop, saying the police department’s account “too conveniently” adheres to the policy on an allowable use of force. James L. Green, 27, was shot and killed on Memorial Drive near New Castle on Thursday. Police said Green was reaching for a gun at the same time he was turning his car and accelerating toward an officer after a vehicle stop.

Councilman Jea Street, who represents the neighborhood where the shooting occured, said the department’s story is nearly identical to the May 10 police shooting of Erik Turnbull. Turnbull, 32, was shot and killed outside the Harbor Club Apartments near Ogletown after police said he aimed his SUV at two officers during a drug sting on May 10. The state Attorney General’s Office is reviewing that case. “It’s way too convenient that the exact same thing happened in both situations,” Street said.

Green's family gave a far different account from the police version of the story, saying Green avoided a confrontation with a man outside his apartment, and was heading to work when he was shot by police. Green’s relatives and his fiance', Jennifer Thomas were with him at Parma Avenue on Thursday when he was shot. Mike Green, and Janai Clark said they arrived as two women were fighting and an unknown man was looking to get in a fight. Rather than get involved, the cousins told Green to leave. He got into his car and pulled out, and they followed him in another vehicle, about three cars behind, they said.

They said they didn’t see an officer stop James Green’s car. “They didn’t give my cousin no chance, man,” said Mike Green. “They never tried to stop that car.”

They saw police cars, apparently responding to the reported shooting, enter the development as they were leaving behind James Green’s car, they said. Police had lights flashing, but no sirens, Mike Green said. Mike Green added that his cousin had made the turn onto Memorial Drive when the shot was fired. While police only said Green was struck in the upper body, his family said he was struck twice in the head. “We were literally 30 seconds apart,” Clark said. By the time I got to the corner and turned from Parma to Memorial an officer had shot,” she said. “He didn’t even tell him to stop his vehicle, didn’t ask him to stop his vehicle.”

After the officer fired the first shot at Green’s Cadillac, the car went from the far right lane into the oncoming lanes. That’s when Clark says the officer fired a second shot. “Two shots. Both hit in the back of the head,” she said. [MORE]