One relative is questioning the Decatur police chief’s correction to the initial police report on the shooting death of Stephen Perkins about two weeks later.

Sheree Head, a Perkins’ relative, said the police chief took too long to release the new statement.

“My issue is it took you 13 days to come up with what we already knew and what we all knew already, what we saw in these videos,” Head said during the public comments section of the Decatur City Council meeting this week.

“You had videos with audio that told you what they said was a lie. But you all allowed it to stand for 13 days to disparage his character and to make it appear that he was some aggressive person, that he was some predator of some nature when you knew it was a lie.”

“Day two, we knew this, and you allowed it to stand so that you could shape the public’s opinion about him,” Head said Monday.

Home camera recording of the event on the morning of Sept. 29 showed Perkins telling a tow driver repossessing his vehicle about a quarter to 2 a.m., “put the truck down” before the shooting.

The footage appeared to show a police officer coming from the corner of his house on 3900 Block of Ryan Drive SW and shouting, “Hey, hey, police, get on the ground,” and began firing. The police report that day said he turned a weapon towards an officer.

The interaction lasted about one second before gunshots rang out. A family attorney said seven bullets hit him; a neighbor said six hit his house, and he was lucky to escape death.

The Decatur police initially explained that they were responding to a tow truck company call after someone pulled a gun on a tow truck driver. Another home footage viewed by AL.com indicated the tow truck driver was at the house at about midnight.

“Officers made their way to the residence, along with the tow truck driver,” the Decatur police said in the statement explaining what happened about two hours later.

“The homeowner exited the residence armed with a handgun and began to threaten the tow truck driver. Officers on scene ordered the homeowner to drop his weapon, which he refused to do. It was at this time the homeowner turned the gun towards one of the Officers on scene. The Officer discharged his duty weapon, striking the subject.”

About ten days after the incident, longtime Decatur councilman Billy Jackson called for the firing of the police chief, calling to question the procedure that the three officers seen on home camera footage followed that day.

“I don’t know of any policy that would justify that,” Jackson said on Oct. 9. “I don’t know of any procedure that would have allowed us to go out there at that particular time in aid of, or in assisting a tow truck driver at that particular time when all we had to do was turn on the lights and knock on the door.”

Police chief Todd Pinion released a statement correcting the initial release, adding that the department is “conducting an investigation into what led up to the shooting, the use of force itself, and officers’ actions afterwards to determine if there were any violations of department policy.”

Pinion acknowledged that the officer fired after ordering Perkins to “get on the ground” before the shooting and did not “order him to drop his weapon,” as indicated in the initial statement.

“That means that we also erred in stating Mr. Perkins ‘refused’ to drop his firearm prior to the shooting,” he wrote. “I apologize for the inaccurate description of the encounter in our initial statement, and we have already taken steps to improve our public information sharing process.”

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is investigating the case.

A family attorney, Cannon Lambert, Sr, told AL.com he was disappointed that he flew in from Chicago on Tuesday expecting ALEA to allow him to view the bodycam footage of the incident.

An ALEA spokesperson in an email to AL.com Tuesday said the attorney did not follow the agency’s layout process.

“ALEA has a process by which an individual who is the subject of a law enforcement recording, or that individual’s personal representative, may request disclosure of body camera or dash camera video evidence,” the spokesperson said. “That process has not yet been completed in this instance.”

Lambert told AL.com that ALEA requires the lawyers to fill out a form before ALEA considers whether to provide the videos.

Briona Watkins is one of the lead organizers of protests that have been going on in Decatur daily, asking for justice with regard to Perkins’ killing. She told AL.com Saturday after a protest event that the police chief “has not come out with the whole truth.”

“He admitted that their original statement was wrong, but saying that (is not enough), his officer did not fully even finish his command. Not only that, he didn’t even give Steve a chance to react to his command,” she said.