The Gambia government has called for a credible investigation into the shooting death of Momodou Lamin Sisay, a Gambian national, by U.S. police in the state of Georgia.

The Gambia’s Foreign Affairs ministry, in a statement on Tuesday, said it had “asked the Gambian Embassy in Washington D.C. to engage the relevant U.S. authorities including the State Department, to seek a transparent, credible and objective investigation in the matter.”

Sisay, 39, was killed in the early hours of Saturday morning after a road incident involving police in Snellville, Georgia, according to local media. He is the son of Lare Sisay, a retired Gambian diplomat. 

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said in a statement that it had been asked by the police department in the town of Snellville to investigate an officer involved in the shooting of a driver following a car chase.

The GBI statement said preliminary information indicated police officers pursued Sisay after he failed to stop when they tried to pull him over for a vehicle tag violation.