WRAL Attorneys Wayne Kendall (left) and Ben Crump (right) go over the independent autopsy on April 27, 2021 performed on Andrew Brown Jr. by North Carolina-based pathologist Dr. Brent Hall.
An independent autopsy shows that Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man killed by deputies in Pasquotank County, North Carolina last week, was shot five times, including once in the back of the head, according to a report released Tuesday by family attorneys.
A pathologist hired by Brown’s family examined his body on Sunday and noted four wounds to the right arm and one to the head, the report said. The state’s autopsy has not been released yet.
By Jonathan Drake and Nathan Layne
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C., April 27 (Reuters) - Lawyers for the family of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man killed by law enforcement last week in North Carolina, said an independent autopsy showed he died from a kill shot to the back of his head, as the FBI on Tuesday opened a civil rights probe of the shooting.
Governor Roy Cooper later called for appointment of a special prosecutor to take over the state s investigation of last Wednesday s shooting.
Brown, 42, was struck with four bullets to his right arm before the fatal shot penetrated the rear of his skull as he tried to drive away, the lawyers for his family told a news conference in Elizabeth City, a riverfront community near the Virginia border where the shooting took place.
Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man killed by deputies in North Carolina, was shot five times, including in the back of the head, according to an independent autopsy report released Tuesday by his family’s attorneys.
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