On the night of May 21, 2014, 28-year-old Michael Duncklee was staying with a friend in a Tucson apartment at 3810 East Monte Vista Drive when two Tucson police officers responded to a report of squatters in a vacant unit. Officers Allan Meyer and Robert Soeder entered the unlocked apartment after getting no response to announcements. Police say Duncklee emerged from a bedroom brandishing what they described as a hockey stick, charged at the officers while yelling and making growling noises, and both officers fired; Duncklee was hit and later died at a hospital. A woman in the bedroom was wounded in the leg but survived.

Family and friends contested the officers’ account, saying Duncklee was hard of hearing from a premature birth and may not have heard the announcements; a companion said she woke him but he didn’t know they were police, and they described the object as a small, harmless piece of wood. Duncklee’s mother filed a wrongful-death suit; a federal appeals court later granted the officers qualified immunity, finding the entry lawful because Duncklee was trespassing and that deadly force could be legal under the circumstances.

If anyone knew Michael or was in that building that night, does anyone have details that clarify what happened inside the apartment?