The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division will investigate the fatal police shooting of a 37-year-old Baton Rouge man, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced today.

Bystander video of two police officers shooting Alton Sterling outside of a convenience store early Tuesday morning circulated widely on the internet, prompting outrage and protests in Baton Rouge last night.

Police identified the two involved officers as Blane Salamoni, who has been with the department for four years, and Howie Lake II, a 3-year veteran of the force.

The video shows one of the two white Baton Rouge police officers tackling Sterling, who is black. Both officers are holding him down and one appears to pull his weapon. The camera then moves amidst shouting and what sounds like gunshots.

“The individuals involved in his murder took away a man with children who depended upon their daddy on a daily basis,” said Quinyetta McMillan, the mother of the oldest of Sterling’s five kids, during a press conference today. Their son, 15-year-old Cameron, wept at her side.

Sterling had permission to sell CDs outside the Triple S Food Mart, said the store’s owner, Abdullah Muflahi.

While there are conflicting reports about whether Sterling had a gun in his pocket, Louisiana is an open carry state. That means anyone over the age of 17 can carry a gun without a permit so long as they can legally own a firearm.

According to a release from the Baton Rouge Police Department, officers were responding to a disturbance call about a man selling CDs threatening the caller with a gun. Sterling was shot by police and died on the scene. The involved officers have been placed on paid administrative leave, according to the police.

A number of local officials and activists, including Congressman Cedric Richmond (D-LA), who represents Baton Rouge, called for an independent investigation into the shooting last night.

“There are a number of unanswered questions surrounding Mr. Sterling’s death. Including questions about the initial calls for police presence, the level of force used by officers, the verbal and physical altercation, and the response of the officers after he was shot,” said Richmond in a statement. “I call on the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a full and transparent investigation into this incident.”

Governor Edwards called the video “disturbing to say the least,” in a press conference announcing the DOJ taking over the investigation.

“The FBI’s New Orleans Division, the Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Louisiana have opened a civil rights investigation into the death of Alton Sterling. The Justice Department will collect all available facts and evidence and conduct a fair, thorough and impartial investigation. As this is an ongoing investigation we are not able to comment further at this time,” the FBI said in a statement today.

The DOJ has also opened investigations into other deadly police-involved incidents, including the deaths of Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Eric Garner, among others, the Huffington Post notes.

The president of the local branch of the NAACP is also calling for the resignation of the city’s police chief and mayor. “This incident is only one incident in many,” Michael McClanahan said. “What we’re going to do is root out the 1 percent of bad police officers that go around being the judge, the jury and execution of innocent people, period, but more specifically, innocent black lives.”

Sterling is the 558th person killed by the police in the U.S. in 2016, according to The Guardian’s The Counted.

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