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The widow of a 72-year-old Texas man is searching for answers after
Fort Worth police shot and killed him on Tuesday while responding to a
burglary call involving a house across the street.

“Married 46 years, and, you know, somebody gets a little trigger-happy
and away they go,” Kathy Waller said to WFAA-TV on Tuesday after her
husband, Jerry Waller, was shot inside the couple’s garage.

Kathy Waller told KHOU the couple noticed police in their Fort Worth
neighborhood just after 1 a.m. Tuesday morning. Her husband grabbed
his .38-caliber handgun and went downstairs to see what was happening.
She said to the station she heard six gunshots afer he opened the
garage door.

The Dallas News reported on Tuesday that authorities said in a
statement that the two officers were “engaged by an adult male armed
with a handgun” and shot him in fear for their safety. Jerry Waller
was pronounced dead at the scene.

“I was told by an officer he wouldn’t put his gun down,” former city
council member Becky Haskin told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Haskin
lives in the same neighborhood as the victim.

The Star-Telegram also reported that the two unidentified officers
involved in the shooting have been with the department for less than a
year. They have both been placed on administrative leave. A department
spokesperson, Cpl. Tracey Knight, also promised to conduct a
transparent investigation of the shooting while explaining the
officers’ presence in the Wallers’ home.

“Policies and procedures were followed,” Knight told the
Star-Telegram. “Officers are taught when they go to a call to survey
the entire landscape and not just the small area of where the call
is.”