document: The accidental shooting death of a young stockbroker by an officer looking for a burglar is one more strike against a police force already struggling with allegations of brutality and racism . Terry D. Barnes , 24 , was shot between the eyes in his apartment . Police said an officer investigating a report of a prowler had entered the apartment at 3:30 a.m. and fired after Barnes got out of bed to see what was wrong . It was the seventh shooting death involving Kansas City police officers this year . In the previous three years , five people were shot and killed . `` I just hope that this case will draw the line on where the police can kill an innocent man . Where do you draw the line ? '' said roommate Andy Brez , 23 , who was sleeping in another bedroom when police entered on Saturday . Barnes was white , as is the officer who shot him ; however , other recent incidents of alleged excessive force involved black citizens . Police said they were told the prowler might have run to the floor on which Barnes lived . Two police officers , whose names were not disclosed , noticed the door to his apartment was not tightly shut and entered , authorities said . An officer encountered Barnes , unarmed , in a T-shirt and boxer shorts , standing in his bedroom , police spokesman Sgt. Greg Mills said . Barnes made `` a kind of lunging motion , '' and the officer fired from about 5 to 8 feet , Mills said . Friends of Barnes questioned whether his apartment door was ajar and whether he would have lunged at the officer . `` We are defending the officers being in that apartment , '' Mills said . `` As for the shooting itself , we will make no assessment of the propriety of that until after the investigation . '' The department has suffered a string of complaints about excessive force and racism since the spring . Police Chief Steven Bishop said before the latest slaying that the department 's standing has fallen in the community , and a `` behavior modification '' program is being developed for offending officers . `` We 're part of the problem out there on the street , and we 've got to get back to good , basic police work , '' Bishop said after Barnes ' death . In June , several white officers bloodied a Nigerian-born Roman Catholic priest with nightsticks as he lay on the ground . The Rev. Joseph Okoye said officers who stopped him on suspicion of drunken driving mistook his foreign accent for drunken speech . In May , another black clergyman was hit on the head with a shotgun by a white officer while lying on the ground . Police said a youth in the car of the Rev. William Fountaine matched the description of an armed robber . Neither clergyman nor the passenger in Fountaine 's car was charged . Both clergymen alleged racism ; Bishop suspended some of the officers involved in the May incident . In another case , three undercover officers were suspended for a shooting this spring that left a young black man crippled . The officers and the victim accused each other of starting the fight that led to the shooting . Also this year , four oficers riddled a man brandishing a barbecue fork with 15 bullets , killing him . And an officer killed a man who was spraying him with a fire extinguisher . No officer involved in the two killings was charged . The officer who shot Barnes was a two-year veteran of the force . He was placed on paid leave pending a police investigation and that of a grand jury . `` This is a tragic chain of events that is regrettable for Mr. Barnes ' family and for this officer , '' Bishop said . `` The officers were reacting appropriately to a number of circumstances which together led them to that apartment . '' `` Terry was a good man . He would have been a good husband and a good father , '' said Barnes ' fiancee , Alison Brady . They had planned to marry in June .
extractive_keyphrases: police force brutality racism accidental shooting death excessive force black citizens
abstractive_keyphrases: terry barnes