BOSTON, Oct. 30, 2016–Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said today that his office would conduct a “thorough, impartial, independent investigation” into the police-involved shooting death of a man during an early-morning confrontation with emergency medical personnel and police officers.

“Senior Suffolk prosecutors were at the scene through the early morning hours and will lead a thorough, impartial, independent investigation into the events that transpired on Shawmut Avenue,” Conley said. “As we have in every such case for more than a decade, we will release our entire investigative file to the family of the deceased and the media upon its conclusion. To my knowledge, this level of transparency in fatal police shootings is unparalleled, and no other district attorney’s office in the country affirmatively releases every report, every interview, every dispatch transmission, and every map and diagram in every case as we do.”

Conley said that prosecutors had not drawn any conclusions or made any findings at this early stage of his office’s statutory, independent investigation.

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