The family of an Australian woman killed by US police after making an emergency call is complaining that authorities have left them in the dark about how the shooting happened.

Justine Damond was killed late on Saturday by a police officer responding to her emergency call of a possible assault in an alleyway near her home in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The shooting occurred as 40-year-old Ms Damond, dressed in her pajamas, approached the driver’s side door to talk to the officer at the wheel after police arrived.

Officer Mohamed Noor, who was sitting in the passenger seat, fired his weapon across his partner and through the driver’s side window, striking Ms Damond, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) said, according to a report by BBC News.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said he wants answers from the US over the killing.

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