Two Denver police officers shot and killed 16 year-old Jessica Hernandez early Monday morning. According to Police Chief Robert White, who spoke to reporters shortly after the shooting, the first officer on the scene initially responded to a “suspicious vehicle” call reporting a car sitting in an alley in the Park Hill neighborhood. Upon arrival the officer ran the vehicle’s plates, and learning that the vehicle was stolen, called for backup.

According to White, as the two officers approached the vehicle on foot the car struck one of the officers fracturing his leg. In response, both officers opened fire taking aim at Hernandez who was in the driver’s seat.

When pressed for clarification, White did not confirm nor deny that Hernandez intentionally struck the officer with the car. He pointed to this detail as part of the ongoing investigation, adding that he hopes the facts of the investigation will justify the officers’ actions, but if they do not then it will be addressed. Given what he now knows about the shooting, White believes that his police officers followed protocol. Both officers at the scene have been placed on administrative leave during the investigation, which is standard procedure.

There were five individuals in the car at the time of the shooting. A new eyewitness account from one of the passengers emerged on Wednesday and directly conflicts with an aspect of White’s Monday report. According to the passenger, who wants to remain anonymous for now, the two officers first shot Hernandez through the driver side window. Hernandez was not in control of the vehicle after being shot, details the eyewitness, which is when it hit one of the officers. The eyewitness testimony described the officer’s injury as a result of being pinned between the car and a fence and not as a result of Hernandez intentionally using the car as a weapon.

The Denver Post received a video from a resident who lives near the shooting. The video reports to reveal a handcuffed Hernandez being rolled onto her stomach and back, appearing to be searched by the police officers after she was shot. The female is “limp, silent, and motionless” in the video.

A day after the killing of Hernandez, the Denver Office of the Independent Monitor, a civilian oversight agency created by the city of Denver in 2005, announced it will evaluate police methods involving cars as reported weapons in officer-related shootings. The Office of the Independent Monitor  points to at least three additional officer-involved shootings tied to moving vehicles in the past seven months.

The most recent incident involving a moving vehicle is the Jan. 9 shooting of Sharod Kindell during a traffic stop. According to the family of Sharod Kindell, and eyewitness accounts reported to the family, after being forcefully removed from his vehicle it rolled into an assisting officer. In response, the officer who was not hit by the moving vehicle shot Kindell four times. Assessing the vehicle as a weapon, Kindell was then charged with assaulting an officer. He received treatment at Denver Health and remains in police custody.

In addition to organizing a candlelight vigil for Hernandez on Monday evening, her family and friends appeared at District Attorney Mitch Morrissey’s office on Tuesday to demand more transparency and accountability in police-involved shooting investigations. Dozens gathered, including the family and friends of Sharod Kindell, outside of a police station on Wednesday night to protest the killing of Jessica Hernandez.