LE CENTER — Eight weeks after her 24-year-old son, Tyler Heilman, was shot and killed in Kasota by a Le Sueur County sheriff’s deputy, Deb Voss doesn’t know what to tell all the people who ask her what happened.

She’s still waiting for answers. The only thing she knows at this point is the results of a Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) report have been sent to the Anoka County attorney’s office to be reviewed.

Voss doesn’t have a death certificate for her son, so she can’t close out his affairs.

More important, she hasn’t received any explanation about what happened outside a Kasota apartment building the afternoon of July 20. She wants to know why Heilman, unarmed and wearing only a pair of swim trunks, was shot four times by Deputy Todd Waldron, who was wearing plain clothes.

So the protest continues every Sunday night outside the Le Sueur County Sheriff’s Department in Le Center. About 50 people gathered there Sunday, many carrying signs saying things like, “8 weeks still waiting” and “We won’t give up” and “Memories Never Die.”

Voss was there wearing a black T-shirt. White letters on the back of the shirt said, “Justice for Tyler.”

“A day doesn’t go by that I don’t get dozens of questions,” she said. “All I can say is, ‘I don’t know.’”

During a news conference the day after Heilman was shot by Waldron, BCA officials said they couldn’t answer key questions.

Andy Skoogman, BCA spokesman, said then he didn’t know if Waldron told Heilman and the others he was confronting that he was a deputy. Skoogman also didn’t know if Heilman or anyone with him had reached for Waldron’s gun.

Those and other questions about the incident, such as whether anyone besides those directly involved witnessed the incident, remain unanswered.

When contacted last week, Skoogman would only say the BCA has completed its investigation. He said he didn’t know if any charges had been requested by the department.

“About two weeks ago we presented our findings to the Anoka County attorney’s office,” he said. “They are reviewing the case and determining the next steps.”

Voss said she expects charges to be filed against Waldron.

“I can’t imagine anyone in their right mind who wouldn’t pass it on for criminal charges,” she said. “How do you shoot someone in a pair of swimming trunks? My son had four holes in him.”

One person who was with Heilman when he was shot, Kris Hoehn, has given detailed descriptions of the last seconds his friend was alive. Hoehn said the incident started when Waldron confronted Heilman about the way he had been driving through Kasota.

Waldron asked for a driver’s license, Heilman told him, “no,” and a wrestling match started, Hoehn said. Heilman didn’t know he was fighting a deputy until he saw a badge on Waldron’s belt. When Heilman backed off and put his hands in the air, Waldron pulled his gun and shot, Hoehn said then.

Hoehn was at Sunday’s protest, too. He said he’ll never forget the gunpowder smell or how he fell to his knees when the pilot of the helicopter to which Heilman had been taken, just shut its power down. That’s when he knew his friend was dead, he said.

“This is something that needs to be justified,” Hoehn said. “It needs to be explained and it’s like they’re just trying to sweep it under the rug. I don’t get how, or why, it takes this long.”