While no gun was found on him, a handgun in a sock was discovered on grassland about four metres (14ft) from his body.
Ziegler, who was beside him, seemed unsure which weapon to use; in the space of seven seconds he returned his handgun to its holster, replaced it with a Taser-style stun gun that cast a red laser dot on Jeanetta's torso, only to put it away and switch back to his handgun.
Whatever the object was, the police suggested it was the barrel of a handgun.
The police department sent a tweet that the reports were "NOT true", though added that a man with a handgun had been arrested at the intersection of North and Pennsylvania avenues, where crowds quickly gathered following the reports.
The police watchdog has cleared armed officers of any wrongdoing in the killing of Mark Duggan, saying it was likely that he was in the process of throwing away a handgun when he was shot.
According to a statement issued by Zion police, a handgun was found at the scene.
Following a three-and-a-half-year investigation into the killing of Duggan, 29, the the Independent Police Complaints Commission IPCCclearedred armed officers of any wrongdoing, saying it was likely that he was in the process of throwing away a handgun when he was shot.
Unable to see through the dark-tinted window, Kelley made his way to the front, the handgun by his side, when he said a barking dog's head suddenly lunged out of the window.
In Louisiana last month a three-year-old girl, Alexis Mercer, died after shooting herself in her family's living room with a handgun her father had failed to put away after cleaning it.
One of the officers chasing him thought Mr Lopez had "the biggest handgun that he had ever seen", says a DoJ report, though he was in fact unarmed.
Crack brought with it much higher levels of violence and, in particular, soaring rates of handgun murders by people less than 25 years old.
