The family of an Alabama teen fatally shot by police in a Homewood soccer park said he was not armed, not aggressive and did not resist police.

Jabari Latrell Peoples, 18, of Aliceville, died at UAB Hospital in Birmingham less than hour after police say he was armed and struggled with an officer who then shot him.

“We will pursue this case until the truth is fully exposed, and justice is served,” according to the family’s statement posted on Facebook, “not only for Jabari, but for every family who’s been forced to bury a loved one without answers.”

The shooting happened at 9:30 p.m. Monday at the Homewood Soccer Park in the 1800 block of South Lakeshore Drive near Columbiana Road.

Sgt. Mark Trippe said a Homewood officer was investigating a suspicious vehicle at the park. The park was otherwise empty at the time, police said.

Peoples, police said, was inside the vehicle in question and engaged in a physical altercation and then pulled a gun.

The officer then shot Peoples.

He was taken to UAB Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 10:06 p.m.

Per department policy, the investigation was turned over to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s State Bureau of Investigation.

In a Tuesday night statement, ALEA officials echoed Homewood’s account of the incident, and said the officer was treated on the scene for injuries.

The family’s statement said they were not notified by law enforcement or medical personnel but instead learned of People’s death at 10 a.m. Tuesday when they were notified by the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office.

Efforts by AL.com to contact the family were not immediately successful.

By the time they were contacted, the family statement said, his body had already been transported, and an autopsy had been conducted without their knowledge or consent.

They were instructed to send a funeral home to retrieve his body.

“We were denied the right to identify him. We were denied the right to be present,” the statement read. “We were denied basic dignity.”

The family said Peoples’ was approached by an individual in an unmarked vehicle, with no lights, no sirens, and no visible identification. That officer exited the car, tapped on the window, and told the occupants to exit.

“They followed directions,” the family said. “Jabari complied — and within seconds, he was taken to the ground and shot.”

“A witness was present. That person saw everything,” they said. “There was no weapon. There was no threat.”

The family said the officer took no life-saving action and left Peoples to die. “He was left to bleed out on the street,” the statement continued.

“Jabari was a college student,” according to the statement. “He had a family. He had a future.”

The family said they have not received a police report or seen video footage of the incident or heard from Homewood police.

“But we have heard the lies. We’ve read the headlines — and we’ve watched attempts to twist this narrative,’’ the statement said.

“Let us be clear: This was not just negligence. It was a violation of Jabari’s civil rights, of our family’s human rights, of due process and decency,” the statement read.

The statement said the family is demanding public release of the full police report, all available body cam and dash cam footage, identification of the officer, and a full, independent investigation.

“His life mattered. His death will not be ignored,” the family said, “and his story will not be rewritten.”