The file per­tain­ing to the al­leged home in­va­sion that oc­curred on Ju­ly 29 at Egypt Vil­lage, En­deav­our, in which a 25-year-old se­cu­ri­ty guard was killed, has been re­turned for in­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cers to con­duct fur­ther in­quiries.

The file was sub­mit­ted over a week ago to As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice for the South/Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Lu­cia Win­ches­ter, who sent it back to the of­fi­cers.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion is seek­ing to de­ter­mine if or what charges are to be laid against a 45-year-old woman for re­port­ed­ly killing Mark An­tho­ny Joseph, as she al­leged­ly de­fend­ed her fam­i­ly against a home in­va­sion.

In ad­di­tion to whether or not she can face a mur­der charge, the in­ves­ti­ga­tion will de­ter­mine if oth­er charges, in­clud­ing pos­ses­sion of a firearm and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion ,can be prof­fered against her.

Se­nior le­gal sources have said all three are pos­si­ble but it would be up to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) to de­cide.

As part of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion, of­fi­cers record­ed state­ments and col­lect­ed CCTV footage of the in­ci­dent.

The woman was said to have been at home with her daugh­ter, when it was al­leged the de­ceased en­tered the fenced prop­er­ty and opened the door to her sil­ver Hon­da CRV, which had been parked in the yard, and sound­ed the horn sev­er­al times be­fore walk­ing to the front door and shak­ing it as he at­tempt­ed to gain en­try to the house.

The woman re­port­ed­ly re­trieved a male rel­a­tive’s li­censed firearm which had been se­cured in the bed­room and fired a sin­gle shot in the sus­pect’s di­rec­tion, hit­ting him in the head. As he col­lapsed on the floor of the garage, she con­tact­ed the po­lice.

Joseph’s fa­ther, Michael Joseph, said he was un­sure of what led to his son’s death and is look­ing for­ward to get­ting some an­swers.