The family of Kollin Elderts, who was killed in a shooting on Nov. 5, 2011, at a Waikiki McDonald’s, is petitioning for the firing of the federal employee who pulled the trigger, Christopher Deedy.

Deedy, a federal agent at the U.S. State Department, is being re-tried for the shooting of Elderts after the previous trial ended in a hung jury last August.

Since March, the Elderts family has gathered approximately 1,000 signatures calling for Deedy to be terminated from the State Department.

“By continuing to keep him in their employ the USDS is declaring Kollin’s murder a ‘good kill,'” the group Justice for Kollin Elderts writes on its petition site.

Christopher Deedy on the first day of his retrial Thursday.

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The State Department could not be reached for a comment Friday.

The petition was presented to the U.S. Department of State office at 999 Bishop St. in downtown Honolulu on Friday, after which the Elderts family gave a brief statement.

The petition effort was supported by: Elderts Ohana, Coalition for Justice for Kollin Elderts, Niheu Ohana, Ohana Koa-Hawaii Chapter of Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific, Parents of Murdered Children, World Can’t Wait, Aloha ‘aina no Ko’olauloa, Movement for Aloha No ka ʻĀina (MANA), Women’s Voices Women Speak-Hawaii Chapter of the International Women’s Network Against Militarism.