Classmates of an LL.M. student at Case Western Reserve University School of Law who was fatally shot by a police officer are calling for a federal inquiry into his death.

More than 50 law students, faculty and staff from the Cleveland school signed a letter this month requesting that Justin Herdman, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, open an investigation into the Dec. 4 death of Saif Nasser Mubarak Alameri, 26, a citizen of the United Arab Emirates who had come to the United States to get an advanced law degree.

Alameri was shot five times by Ryan Doran, an officer with the Hudson Police Department, following a brief struggle between the two men in a wooded area where the law student had fled after crashing his car while driving erratically. Alameri was unarmed.