The NAACP will investige a San Marcos police shooting that killed Gilbert Rodriguez, 52, a month ago.

Jesse Ponce, 17, lives right across the street from the murder scene. He was playing basketball in his front yard when San Marcos police chased Rodriguez through the neighborhood.

"I heard every single shot. There was about six shots over there. Six shots fired here. Six more shots over there," Ponce said.

The basketball goal post he was playing on still lies on the ground since Rodriguez's car flattened it.

Rodriguez was shot and killed right across the street from Ponce.

"I don't think they should have. If anything, they should have put a shot in his leg or something, or a warning shot," Ponce said.

Police claim Rodriguez brandished a knife and tried to run over three officers.

Still, the NAACP believes excessive force was used in the shooting.

According to NAACP, Rodriguez was a mentally challenged man and police didn't handle the incident properly.

"The police department has done a real good job of hushing everything up. To this date we do not know the officers' names who were actively involved in this. It almost appears they are hiding behind their badge," said Kyev Tatum, of the Hill Country chapter of NAACP.

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"I am extremely confident in the professionalism and the training of my officers. I know fully that they followed policy," said San Marcos Police Chief Steve Griffith.

"They shot in several different places on several different streets, and that concerns us greatly, because what you've just done is turned the area from a quiet, quaint neighborhood into a Wild Wild West saloon village," Tatum said.

The Texas Rangers are leading the investigation and a grand jury is expected to hear the case the first week of December.

The three officers said to have been involved in the shooting are back on duty.