A 20-year-old man is dead after he was shot by Memphis police officers Wednesday night in Whitehaven during a domestic violence incident, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Memphis Police Department said.

The officer-involved shooting happened at 8:10 p.m. in the 1300 block of Timothy Drive, off Hermitage Drive. TBI officials said Thursday that Abdoulaye Thiam was the man shot and killed by police. 

MPD said officers were responding to a domestic violence disturbance when police said Thiam, armed with a knife, confronted officers.

Three officers fired shots and Thiam was pronounced dead on the scene. The officers have been relieved of duty with pay as the investigation continues.

Police said no officers or anyone else at the home was injured in the incident. 

A woman on the scene Wednesday night told reporters that Thiam was her son and was in the home with her husband when the shooting occurred. 

Thiam graduated from Sheffield High School in 2016 where he was on the school’s soccer team. He moved to the United States in 2008 from Senegal.

The shooting is being investigated by TBI agents.

Memphis police officers blocked streets and directed traffic on the street that is lined with brick homes and sits less than a mile behind Graceland. 

Community activist and pastor, Rev. Earle Fisher, whose church Abyssinian Baptist on Millbranch is in the neighborhood, said he questioned the use of deadly force in the incident.

“One person with a knife compared to three armed officers and multiple shots fired might very well end up being excessive force,” Fisher said.

Fisher said he wants to see body-camera footage from Wednesday’s shooting, and wants to meet with Thiam's family.

“I’m just going to tell you that if there is any discrepancy with the body-cam footage this time, if anybody just so happened to cut their body cam off this time, I mean there is no telling what the response from the community might be because folks can only take so much," Fisher said. "We are only two days into the New Year and we are dealing with a police-involved shooting already.”

Memphis police tweeted that video from the body cameras of all three officers in Wednesday's shooting was recovered and turned over to TBI agents.

Last year, there were seven officer-involved shootings in Memphis and Shelby County. 

MPD officers turned off their body cameras during a Sept. 17, 2018, incident in which 25-year-old Martavious Banks was shot and critically wounded by officers. That led Shelby County commissioners Tami Sawyer, Van Turner and Edmund Ford Jr. to propose a resolution asking the TBI to investigate all police shootings and not just fatal incidents.

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State Rep. G.A. Hardaway of Memphis and state Sen. Brian Kelsey of Germantown said they would renew state legislation requiring TBI to take control of all officer-involved shootings. 

The state Legislature convenes on Jan. 8.

Family members of man shot and killed by Memphis police officers Wednesday night in Whitehaven gathered on the scene on Timothy Drive. pic.twitter.com/mS0J8Ef5rd

— Yolanda Jones (@yojonesreporter) January 3, 2019