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The Lodi Police Department now has the names and statements of 16 alleged eye-witnesses to the Jan. 25 deadly police shooting of Gulf War veteran, Parminder Shergill.

Lodi Police, San Joaquin Country, and the Attorney General’s office are finishing up their investigations. However, since this began, many believe Lodi Police has released very minimal information.

“What we have experienced is two months now of total silence,” Mark Merin, the Shergill family attorney said.

So Merin’s office also conducted its own investigation. They claimed they found 16 eye-witnesses stating the veteran, suffering from PTSD, was unarmed, and did not provoke the two Lodi officers in question, when he was killed.

Last Friday, Lodi Police Chief, Mark Helms wrote a letter to Merin’s office, asking for their list of witnesses. Chief Helms told FOX40 many names should match their own witnesses, but said, “we would be negligent if we didn’t explore that.”

On Tuesday, the Shergill family’s attorney handed over their own investigational findings to the Chief. Merin told FOX40 at the meeting, Chief Helms continued stand behind the actions of his officers.

“If those officers did what they were trained to do, and that is to shoot and kill an unarmed, innocent, non-threatening man, then we have a real problem,” Merin said. “These officers cannot hide behind their own versions of what happened.”

“I said, ‘Well, have any of these persons we talked to, give you any different statements?’ He [Chief Helms] wouldn`t answer that question,” Merin said.

Chief Helms told FOX40, because of the nature of the allegations on their department, they hope to be transparent in their reports. He said they will take a different approach than usual by making their findings public via news release and media interviews before sending them off the District Attorney’s Office.

All three agencies will give a completed investigation packet to the DA’s office, who will then determine if any crimes were committed. Merin said the family plans to take this to civil court, regardless.