Man shot dead by corrections officer was no threat: mum

Kirsty Pepper said nothing would justify the way her partner Dwayne Johnstone died. (HANDOUT/SUPPLIED)

The mother of an Indigenous man who was shot dead as he fled from custody has told a coroner that her son posed no threat before he was killed.

But Kerry Shanahan says she holds no animosity towards the correctional officer who shot her son, adding he was only doing his job.