The Police Department says Leon Anderson Junior used two guns to shoot Officer Eddy in the chest and leg but the department says one of the guns and all of the bullets Anderson fired were never found.
The police department said it's clear: Leon Anderson Junior shot and wounded Officer Dennis Eddy during a foot chase before Anderson was shot and killed by another officer.
Sgt. Greg Terry said, "He was shot twice by Leon Anderson and the evidence shows what took place in both of those exchanges."
Anderson's father believes his son never fired a shot and the gun was planted.
Leon Anderson Senior said, "No more police policing themselves, because this is a cover-up."
The shooting review board says Anderson used a .32 caliber gun to shoot Eddy in the chest, because that's the size of the slug recovered from the officer's bullet-proof vest.
No .32 caliber gun was found at the scene of the shooting.
Sgt. Terry said, "The tumbleweeds, the furniture, the vehicles, the overgrowth, all of that, the vacant lot and the fields, all of that where the initial shooting took place, the environment was full of things to explain why we didn't find it that night."
After a short chase, officers shot and killed Anderson when they said he raised a .38 caliber gun at them.
Six spent casings were found inside a revolver, but none of the matching bullets were ever found.
Sgt. Terry said, "If you look at the physical location that this shooting took place, when he was shooting at officer Cooley, the backdrop for that is a vacant lot that goes into an intersection down the street. That bullet could have gone into the ground, because at the time Mr. Anderson was shooting at Officer Cooley, he had gone down to a knee."
The police department initially said the bullet and gun matched.
Sgt. Terry said, "We believed initially that the gun with him was the only gun used, it was later during the investigation that the bullet used was not from a .38."
Sergeant Greg Terry says there was gunshot residue all over Anderson's hands and then there's the eyewitness accounts.
Sgt. Terry said, "The fact that we haven't recovered that firearm does not change the facts. The facts are, Mr. Anderson shot Officer Eddy with a .32 caliber."
The family has called for a federal investigation.
Kiyoshi Tomono joined the 17 News team in March of 2004. He currently anchors 17 News at Sunrise and reports for other newscasts.
Kiyoshi has won two Golden Mike Awards and an Associated Press Mark Twain award for his investigative and feature reporting.
He is also the recipient of the 2008 RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for investigating reporting on Crisp and Cole Real Estate that ended in an FBI raid of the company
