KAMIAH - Authorities still aren't releasing details about a fatal shooting in Stites last month.

A 21-year-old Kamiah man, Gabriel Pena Warden, was shot and killed on April 24 in what the owner of the Stites Grocery Store classified as a foiled break-in attempt.

But Pena Warden's family say they sense a cover-up and believe there's more to the story.

Pena Warden was laid to rest at his family home in Kamiah last week, with bikes, his toy trucks and his Yankees cap.

"Gabe was carefree, loving, fun," said his cousin Alicia Oatman. "Fun to be around."

"He was a young man with many hopes and dreams," said his aunt Judy Oatman.

Initial reports from local authorities however painted a different picture.

Pena Warden, along with another man, reportedly broke into the Stites Grocery store through a fan vent in the early morning hours. A man inside the building shot Pena Warden twice, the first shot striking Pena Warden in the leg, the second hitting him in the chest. The shooter reportedly claimed Pena Warden came at him before he fired the shots.

Pena Warden’s alleged accomplice was said to have fled the scene.

Since Pena Warden was an enrolled Nez Perce Tribal member, the FBI has jurisdiction in the case. That had the family and even local sheriff's deputies waiting outside the store following the shooting.

"We wanted to know that he's not just laying in there dying, bleeding to death," said Judy Oatman.

As the morning went on, family members weren't allowed to identify the man who was rumored to be shot dead in the back room of the store and it wasn't until the following Monday, that they saw Pena Warden's body for the first time.

"The FBI did explain to me, I was up there that morning, they said the felt they properly notified my family by giving me a piece of his ID, which was a Nez Perce Tribal ID," said Oatman.

But Pena Warden's name wasn't released to the public then, in fact not until six days later. The family said that made them believe there was more to what had happened than met the eye.

While on the scene, Judy Oatman said workers on a delivery truck were allowed in and out of the store, when family was not. She said the size of the hole the two men are alleged to have crawled through, was too small to not leave bruises or scratches. Oatman said there was no blood where Pena Warden apparently died and if there was a clean up why was it still dirty? She also questions why later that morning, workers were preparing food where hours before there had been a shooting. And the family says the most disturbing question of all is why the man inside needed to fire the fatal shot.

"When do we draw the line that a human life is more valuable?" asks Judy Oatman. "We just ask why this man didn't call 911 immediately. Why take the law into your hands? I don't think anybody should do that."

The FBI will not comment on the investigation. Judy Oatman said the family has been asked to keep quiet, but they want to know their brother, cousin, nephew and son isn't the only one who'll pay a price.

"What we want to know is that this justice system will work for our brother, for Gabe's brother, and for Gabe, and that there will not be any more bloodshed or talk of retaliation or bombing or any of those other stupid rumors going around," said Pena Warden’s aunt Sandy Davis.

"We're not out to do the investigation for them," said Judy Oatman. "But we'd at least like the respect to know that the answers are being sought, and they are doing a proper investigation so we can have answers."