The family sought out forensic pathologist Dr. Brent Hall to perform the independent autopsy. Hall’s findings concluded that Brown was shot four times in his right arm and once in the back of his head.
“This, in fact, was a fatal wound to the back of Mr. Brown’s head as he was leaving the site trying to evade being shot at by these particular law enforcement officers that we believe did nothing but a straight up execution,” family lawyer Wayne Kendall told reporters during a press conference on Monday, April 27, 2021.
Brown’s son, Khalil Ferebee, said the autopsy report proves his father did not pose a threat to deputies.
“Those (four) gunshots to the arm, that weren’t [sic] enough? That weren’t [sic] enough?” he said, according to NBC News. “It’s obvious he was trying to get away. It’s obvious and they’re going to shoot him in the back of the head? That s— not right. That’s not right at all, man.”
Brown’s family is fuming because they were only allowed to see 20 seconds of video from the deputies’ bodycam instead of the entire episode from when the officers stopped Brown’s car. They want to know what Brown could have done to precipitate the gunfire that ended his life.
