Rishi Chandrikasing was a 17 year old Dutch national who lived in a shelter for disadvantaged youths in Scheveningen. On 23 November 2012, he went out to a club for his cousin's birthday and then in the morning headed to his mother's house, to bid farewell to his grandmother who was travelling to Suriname that day. At 6:00 am on 24 November 2012, three police officers went to Hollands Spoor railway station, having been informed there was someone who was making threats with a firearm. They encountered Chandrikasing on platform 4 and he did not stop moving away from them. Whilst pursuing him with gun drawn, one officer shot him in the neck, from behind. The police waited for one minute before attempting to resuscitate him and he was then rushed to Westeinde Hospital, where he died. He was not carrying a firearm and had only keys and a mobile phone in his pockets. The police took eight hours to contact Chandrikasing's family, even though his mother's telephone number was on his keychain.
