The City of Decatur has named the police officers involved in the shooting death of Stephen Perkins. The decision follows the officer’s appeal to the personnel board, as they fight the mayor’s decision to fire three of them and suspend the fourth.

“We can confirm that the four officers who requested an appeal with the personnel board are Officer Marquette, Officer Williams, Officer Mukkadam, and Sergeant Summers,” human resources director Richelle Sandlin told AL.com this morning.

Sandlin said that the plan is to hear the appeal weeks from now.

“We just received notice of the request, so it will take us time to get that scheduled. It will not be before Christmas. It will be at some point in January,” Sandlin said.

An attorney for the police officers this afternoon declined to comment for this story following a request by AL.com.

Perkins family earlier this week had identified the officers as Bailey Marquette, Christopher Mukkadam, Joey Williams, and Vance Summers in a federal lawsuit. The filing said Marquette shot Perkins.

Police said Perkins had a gun and threatened a tow truck driver who was trying to repossess his vehicle about midnight on Sept. 29. The tow truck driver left but returned later with police, who shot and killed Perkins, who was standing in his front yard at about 2 a.m.

Security camera footage released by the Perkins family showed that it was dark outside when Perkins, a 39-year-old husband and father, walked out of his house while shining a light and shouted for the tow truck driver to put his vehicle down. Police appeared to emerge from the dark as an officer shouted for Perkins to get on the ground. A split second later, 18 gunshots rang out, killing Perkins and hitting a neighbor’s house.

While the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is examining whether any officers are criminally culpable, Mayor Tab Bowling announced the firing of three officers and the unpaid suspension of another following an internal investigation by the police department.

“I found reason to believe that policies were violated,” police chief Todd Pinion said last month.

The mayor promised “a top to bottom review of the policing policies, practices and ways to improve.”

The family’s suit against the officers also names towing company AllStar Recovery, LLC and Pentagon Federal Credit Union, which financed Perkins’ vehicle, as defendants. AllStar and Pentagon Federal did not respond to earlier requests for comment.

The lawsuit alleges excessive force, wrongful death, civil rights violations, and unfair debt collection practices. “At no time did Stephen Clay Perkins pose a threat of death or great bodily harm to” the officers or anyone else, the lawsuit says.