NBC News reported Lowe’s family said he awoke on the morning of his killing “agitated and frustrated” about the loss of his legs, which were amputated below the knees one year earlier.

The family claimed this resulted from a prior incident with police; another family attorney, Christian Contreras, said the earlier incident occurred in Texas and started as a case of Lowe being “harassed by police officers,” according to the New York Post.

Lowe’s mother, Dorothy, called the police to perform a welfare check on him around 10 a.m., with officers talking to him for about 30 minutes. The later encounter with police, which led to Lowe’s killing shortly after 3:40 p.m., was captured on several videos, some of which have not yet been publicly released.

Lowe’s killing is the latest of several lethal encounters with police that Black men have faced around the country, including Tyre Nichols‘ death, and this has led to renewed calls for police reform. With everyone from grieving family members to community activists to President Joe Biden calling for changes to policing in the country, the debate over how to stop these deadly encounters remains, even as change remains too slow for people like the Lowe family who have lost loved ones to police violence.

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