As local ministers and the NAACP demand answers, Baltimore police met with prosecutors Friday to discuss the investigation into an officer’s shooting of an unarmed man.

Sources inside the department said the investigation could lead to a possible hearing in front of a grand jury, though prosecutors and the police chief said no official decision has been made about the case.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld said the officer who fired the fatal shots is suspended with pay.

“This is where people have to trust us,” he said. “We’re learning more and more over time. You’ve got to get things right. There’s still a lot of investigation that needs to be done in that case, before we’re really able to say exactly what happened.”

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“It’s a premature to draw any conclusions,” said Margaret Burns, spokesman for Baltimore City State’s Attorney Patricia Jessamy.

Edward Lamont Hunt, 27, was shot after an altercation with a Baltimore City police officer Wednesday around noon at a shopping plaza in Northeast Baltimore.

Several witnesses told The Examiner that Hunt was shot twice in the back; but police spokesman Sterling Clifford said it is still unclear whether the wounds were in the front or back.

No weapon was recovered from Hunt.

The officer has not been identified.

New details, meanwhile, are emerging from the investigation.

Detectives on Thursday discovered another bullet lodged in the wall of a Murry’s grocery store near where Hunt was shot, leading them to conclude that three shots where fired by the officer, a source familiar with the case said Friday.

A bag with a receipt filled with items purchased by Hunt from the Dollar General Store moments before he was frisked by the officer appears to contradict initial suspicions that Hunt was shoplifting prior to the shooting, the sources said.

Friends and relatives held a candlelight vigil Thursday evening at the site of the shooting.

In an interview, Hunt’s fiancee, Lakia Jeter, 25, questioned why the father of her 2-year-old son is gone.

Marvin “Doc” Cheatham, president of the Baltimore chapter of the NAACP, and the Rev. Heber Brown III also called for answers from the Police Department.

“I already believe that an outside investigating agency, such as the FBI, must be brought in to enable justice,” Cheatham said in an e-mailed statement.

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