Elected officials in New York City say prosecutors should charge a police officer who killed an unarmed man in a dark public housing stairwell.

City Councilwoman Inez Barron and Assemblyman-elect Charles Barron met Monday with officials in the Brooklyn district attorney’s office.

Afterward, Charles Barron told reporters he thinks the shooting of Akai Gurley warrants a charge of criminally negligent homicide.

Gurley was killed Thursday night. Police say he and his girlfriend had opened a door into a stairway, and an officer patrolling the pitch-dark stairwell with his gun drawn fired.

Police Commissioner William Bratton called Gurley’s death a tragedy that befell someone “totally innocent.”

The Brooklyn district attorney’s office has not commented on Gurley’s death, which was ruled a homicide.

(AP)