text: UPDATE (Dec. 15, 2016 4:55 p.m.): According to the autopsy, five of the seven bullets fired by Officer Selman hit Francisco Serna. At least one bullet went through Serna. Three hit a neighbor's home. 
   
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   UPDATE (Dec. 14, 2016 4:30 p.m.): The cause of death of Frank Serna was multiple gunshot wounds, and the manner of death was a homicide, according to KCSO. 
   
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   UPDATE (Dec. 14, 2016, 11:09 a.m.): According to the Bakersfield Police Department, 73-year-old Francisco Serna had a dark-colored simulated woodgrain crucifix between his shirt and jacket when he was shot. The object was not found in his hand. 
   
   BPD officers were not wearing body cameras and there is no dashcam footage of the shooting. According to ABC News, there were at least seven shots fired. It is unclear how many times Serna was actually hit. 
   
   The 73-year-old was suffering from early stages of dementia and leaves behind five children, 16 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. 
   
   The family claimed that Serna was lying naked in the driveway. The man was completely clothed and covered in a yellow tarp until crime lab photographer arrived to take pictures. 
   
   The coroner's officer showed up and cut the man's clothes off to search him, according to the family. 
   
   An autopsy was being performed Wednesday. 
   
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   UPDATE (Dec. 13, 2016, 10:52 a.m.): According to Bakersfield police, no gun was found at the scene and Sergeant Gary Carruesco does not know what - or if - 73-year-old Francisco Serna was holding anything when he was shot by a BPD officer. 
   
   Sgt. Carruesco shared that even if officers are aware ahead of time that someone at the residence has a history of a mental disease, they do not approach the scene any differently. Whatever Serna was doing that was threatening has not yet been determined. 
   
   Information about whether non-lethal force was administered will be released later today. 
   
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   UPDATE (Dec. 12, 2016, 6:15 p.m.): No gun was found at the scene, according to BPD. 
   
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   A man is dead after he was shot and killed by Bakersfield Police early Monday morning in Southwest Bakersfield. 
   
   According to police, the man, who has been identified by family as 73-year-old Francisco Serna, was brandishing a gun at around 12:30 a.m. in the area of Silver Birch Avenue and Alderpointe Street. 
   
   After making contact with Serna, police say an officer fired several shots, hitting and killing him. It's not known how many shots were fired. Family say eight shots were fired. 
   
   Family says Serna had been suffering from the early stages of dementia and had police called to his home several times without incident. 
   
   Family members also say Serna did not own a gun. Bakersfield Police say they are searching the scene for the gun that Serna was allegedly brandishing. 
   
   No officers were hurt. ||||| The elder Serna lived with his wife and one of his daughters. Another son lives a few blocks from where the shooting occurred. Rogelio Serna said his parents moved into Bakersfield about eight years ago, leaving Wasco so they could be closer to their children. ||||| BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — A Bakersfield police officer answering a report of a man with a gun shot and killed an unarmed 73-year-old as he stood in a neighbor's driveway, authorities said. The man's family said he was in the early stages of dementia. 
   
   Francisco Serna was declared dead at the scene about 1:15 a.m. Monday, the Kern County coroner said in a statement. 
   
   Police had arrived about 12:30 a.m., and when a witness pointed to Serna, one officer fired several rounds and killed him, Bakersfield police spokesman Sgt. Gary Carruesco tells KBAK-TV and the Los Angeles Times. 
   
   No gun was turned up in a search of the scene, Carruesco said. 
   
   Serna's son said his father had worked at a cotton gin in California's Central Valley until retiring about a dozen years ago. 
   
   "My dad did not own a gun. He was a 73-year-old retired grandpa, just living life," Rogelio Serna told the Times. "He should have been surrounded by family at old age, not surrounded by bullets." 
   
   Rogelio Serna said his father had been suffering from delusions and other early signs of dementia that had appeared to be getting worse in the past month. His father often took late-night walks alone to tire himself out, he said. 
   
   Police had visited the house twice before because his confused father activated a medical alarm, Rogelio Serna said. 
   
   The coroner said an autopsy would be performed on Francisco Serna. ||||| Bakersfield police say an elderly man who was fatally shot by officers in southwest Bakersfield did not have a gun at the time of the shooting. 
   
   Francisco Serna, 73, was shot and killed early Monday morning in the 7900 block of Silver Birch Avenue. His son Frank Serna told 17 news his father would take walks around the neighborhood quite frequently and had been showing early signs of dementia and was on medication. 
   
   Police said around 12:30 Monday morning officers received a call about a man who was carrying and show a handgun. Police also said the man was not complying to their requests. But the family says Serna never owned a weapon. 
   
   Police said the shooting remains under investigation. The officers involved have been placed on administrative leave.
target: – Family members are demanding answers after they say a police officer fatally shot an unarmed 73-year-old man with dementia in Bakersfield, Calif., on Monday. Authorities say they were responding to a call about a man brandishing a gun outside a home around 12:30am when a witness on the scene pointed to Francisco Serna, standing in a neighbor's driveway, reports the Los Angeles Times. Police say an officer opened fire after Serna failed to comply with requests, per KGET; family members tell KERO that eight shots were fired. Serna was pronounced dead at 1:15am, per the AP, but investigators say a search turned up no gun. "My dad did not own a gun," says Serna's son. "He was a 73-year-old retired grandpa, just living life." Rogelio Serna adds his father had been showing signs of dementia since last year and police had previously visited his home—on the same block where the shooting occurred—at least twice when a disoriented Serna activated a medical alarm. His condition appeared to have worsened in the last month, Rogelio Serna says. His father had difficulty sleeping and sometimes walked late at night to fatigue himself before bed. "He should have been surrounded by family at old age, not surrounded by bullets," his son says.