The mother of 21-year-old Christopher Ferguson, who was shot and killed by police near the corner of Utica Avenue and Park Place in Crown Heights on Thursday, met the media less than 24 hours later, saying she is also looking for answers.

Yolanda Campbell says the family is from Albany, and she got to the hospital around 2 a.m. As of Friday afternoon, she still had not been allowed to see the body.

"I don't even want to believe that it's him until I see him with my own eyes," she said through tears.

While the NYPD says Ferguson was wanted for a homicide in East New York back in March, Campbell has maintained that he was innocent.

"I don't care what crime that Christopher did. Seventeen shots is excessive," says The Reverand Kevin McCall, a local activist.

It is also not clear whether or not the officers knew that about him at the time they opened fire, after he got out of a car that had both another woman and a 3-year-old child inside it.

"My son weighs 100 pounds," said Ferguson. "Two shots could have killed him. They didn't need all that."

Police say that Ferguson pointed a gun at them from close range, and that they recovered the gun at the scene. Campbell says she needs to know more though, since she has heard this narrative from police before and "every time I turn around, y'all saying he got a gun, but y'all never every ever caught him with one."

She adds that police "had him on a cease-fire list, I always let them into my home hundreds of times without warrants, they never found a gun in my home anywhere."

Both Campbell and McCall are calling on the NYPD to release the body camera footage to prove that much force was needed.

Police tell News 12 that usually happens within 30 days.

The New York State Attorney General's Office of Special Investigation say it is opening an investigation into the police response - something they are required to do by law every time police kill someone in the state.