Residents of the Southern California community of Huntington Park are concerned about whether police used excessive force when they shot and killed a double-amputee man in a wheelchair whom they considered dangerous and was allegedly threatening officers with a knife.

According to a statement released by the Huntington Park Police Department on Monday, police responded to a complaint of a stabbing Thursday afternoon. They found a man with a life-threatening wound resulting in a collapsed lung and internal bleeding.

The victim identified the assailant as a black man in a wheelchair who got out of the chair, rushed to the victim unprovoked, and stabbed him in the chest with a 12″ butcher knife. The attacker then fled the crime scene in his wheelchair.

Police found the suspect, later identified as Anthony Lowe, a few blocks away, holding a knife. He allegedly refused to respond to the police’s verbal commands, and when they tried to take him into custody, he threatened to throw the blade at the officers. Police also said that they tasered Lowe twice but that didn’t stop him.

The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department reported that Lowe was subsequently shot in the upper chest. He was given emergency care by paramedics but was declared dead at the scene. 

An investigation is underway, and the involved police officers were put on paid administrative leave. 

A video appeared online showing Lowe running away on his leg stumps, and his sister recognized him in the video. 

Although the LA County Sheriff’s Department obtained the footage from a nearby business, it wasn’t planning to distribute the video.

On Monday, protesters and Anthony Lowe’s family went to the Huntington Park Police Department’s office to express their outrage over the amputee’s murder. Lowe’s mother, Dorothy Lowe, said that they killed her son without legs in a wheelchair.

The family is looking for answers and said that Lowe was depressed after losing his legs in an accident last year. An autopsy is pending.