Army reservist Noel Polanco shot dead by NYPD officers early Thursday after they pulled him over on the highway near LaGuardia Airport, the New York Daily News reports.

Polanco was not armed and no gun was found in his car. Just a four-volt Ryobi power drill he used at the local Honda dealership where he worked.

“What’s so bad about a drill?” Polanco’s mom, Cecilia Reyes, told the Daily News. “What could he have done with a drill, honestly?”

The tragic shooting took place Thursday morning when police pulled him over because they claim that he was driving erratically and refused to stop. The two Emergency Service Unit vehicles that were chasing him were unmarked. Polanco was driving co-worker Diane DeFerrari and an off-duty NYPD officer, Vanessa Rodriguez, home at the time his car was stopped.

When the chase ended, cops allegedly asked everyone in the car to put their hands up. The cop who fired the deadly bullet, identified by the Daily News as Detective Hassan Hamdy, shot Polanco through an open window on the passenger side.

DeFerrari told the newspaper that cops killed Polanco in an act of “pure road rage” because he cut them off on the road.