Protesters in the streets of Los Angeles over the LAPD officer-involved shooting death of Manuel Jimenez (Photo Mary Slosson)

While the report on the investigation into the officer-involved shooting is expected later this month, according to LAPD Public Relations Officer Norma Eisenman, the department can offer no comment on what the findings of that report might be.

At the time of the incident, LAPD released an official version of events in which Jimenez was alleged to have lunged towards police officers with a knife in his hand.  Some community members contested that account, insisting that Jimenez was unarmed.

"The only person that knows is the officer that shot him," said Miguel Isaacs, who shared an apartment in Westlake with Jimenez for three years, until the time of Jimenez's death.  "He is the one that knows if it's true or not."

Isaacs was with Jimenez the day that he was killed, and recounts his experiences in the video below:

While the exact circumstances of Jimenez's death may still remain unclear, the loss felt by his friends and family is known.

"He came here with a dream to do something," said cousin Tomas Gomez.  "Not to lead his family into poverty how they are left now."  

Jimenez's wife and three children are in Guatemala.

"He returned," to Guatemala, said Gomez, "but without life."

Transcript:

One day he told us, "I'm going to be here for a short amount of time. Only long enough to collect a good sum of money. I'm going to make myself a small house. And then I am off."  And I always told him, "Well, that is good. Do something. Make yourself your little house and then go back. Your children are growing up back home… your children are still very young.”

When he came here they were very young.

He returned, but without life.

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Reporting contributed by Cynthia Balderas.

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