closest to him were adam torres who is identified as firing the fatal shot and another severe rodney barnes ha has hostage negotiation training and was speaking directly to gere. in an interview after the shooting with detectives officer rodney barnes say he and officer torres encountered gone gere in the doorway of the house on pebblebrook court. he told them he had a gun and indicated it was on the floor behind him in the house. the documents indicate that barnes said geer kept his hands on the screen door hands up. geer said if i drop my hand, i'm going to get shot. geer would periodically ask to scratch his nose and raise his hand. at one point he spoke in the direction of officer torres saying can you not point that gun at me? barnes said he asked for es to go ready gun, meaning with his finger off the trigger and barrel pointed at the gun. after more negotiation, barnes said i heard pow and described how geer fell back inside the house. barnes said he looked around and said and officer torres said, i did it i'm sorry, oh man, my writes i'm sorry. the documents say i was pissed he mean

>> officer rodney barnes said that torres admitted he fired and said he was sorry. he said he saw geer his hands down towards his waist. barnes had not seen it that way. >> i'm not here to throw him under the bus, but i did not see what he saw. >> torres said this -- "he jerked his hands down near his waist, where i thought he could have another firearm, and i did not when him to take it out, take the firearm out. i don't know if he had another gun on him." a police robot approached and broken well after geer had been shot. officers moved in, but it was too late to save geer, who bled to death. days later torres said this. >> there were shots fired, i have no doubt about that. i don't feel sorry for shooting the guy at all. >> that was audio of torres less than a week after he had shot and killed geer. this case is being investigated by the federal government. there is no timeline on when the investigation will be complete. it has been a year and a half now since the shooting. tom roussey, abc 7 news. >> thank you, tom. tomorrow morning, a group calling itself justi