WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Latest on shooting in which Delaware police say officers fatally shot a man in a wheelchair after responding to a call that he had a possible self-inflicted gunshot wound (all times local):

12 p.m.

The uncle of a man in a wheelchair who was shot to death by police says the shooting was “an execution” by officers.

Wilmington police say the man in the wheelchair was armed with a handgun.

The man has been identified as 28-year-old Jeremy “Bam” McDowell, according to Robert Bovell, who knows the family.

Bovell and McDowell’s uncle, Eugene Smith, was among a crowd of about a couple of dozen people who gathered Thursday at the scene of the shooting.

“It was an execution. That’s what it was. I don’t care if he was black, white, whatever,” Smith said.

McDowell is black. The race of the officers involved was not immediately released.

Police say they were responding to a call about a man in a wheelchair suffering from a possible self-inflicted gunshot wound when the fatal shooting took place Wednesday afternoon.

Police plan a news conference Thursday afternoon to talk about the shooting.

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The police chief and mayor in Wilmington, Delaware, plan to hold a news conference to talk about a man in a wheelchair who was shot and killed by officers.

Police have said the man was armed when they shot him. Officers were responding to a call about a man in a wheelchair who had a possible self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police Chief Bobby Cummings and Mayor Dennis Williams plan to hold a news conference Thursday at 3 p.m.

The Delaware Department of Justice’s Office of Civil Rights and Public Trust is investigating and will determine whether the officers acted within the law. The agency investigates all police shootings that result in injury or death.