Wayne Kendall, among the attorneys representing the household of Andrew Brown Jr., indicate an autopsy chart that his group carried out revealing where Mr. Brown was shot on April 27, 2021 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
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North Carolina constable’s deputies were validated in fatally shooting a Black guy throughout an attempted arrest last month, district attorneys stated Tuesday.
Andrew Brown Jr., 42, was shot while behind the wheel of his vehicle on April 21 in Elizabeth City as Pasquotank County constable’s deputies were serving a warrant for his arrest on felony drug charges.
District Attorney Andrew Womble stated Brown’s shooting death, “while tragic,” was “justified due to his actions.”
An autopsy commissioned by Brown’s household discovered he was shot 5 times, as soon as in the back of the head. That report contributed to the findings of a state death certificate that revealed that he was shot 5 times which Brown’s instant cause of death was a “penetrating gunshot wound of the head.”
The district lawyer has actually stated officers fired just after Brown struck deputies two times with his lorry. But his household’s lawyers state the video is at chances with how law authorities have actually framed the shooting.
Brown’s loved ones have actually questioned why deputies utilized fatal force when he was surrounded by police.
Chance Lynch, a lawyer for the household, stated recently that the video reveals that deputies fired at Brown, triggering him to move his lorry far from them. After the shooting, Brown’s lorry was filled with bullet holes, Lynch stated.
Khalil Ferebee is hugged near where his dad, Andrew Brown Jr., was eliminated on May 02, 2021 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
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The shooting took place in a domestic area in Elizabeth City, which has to do with 35 miles south of Norfolk, Virginia.
Sheriff Tommy Wooten has actually determined 3 of his deputies who opened fire at Brown that day: Investigator Daniel Meads, Deputy Robert Morgan and Cpl. Aaron Lewellyn.
Further aggravating Brown’s household is that body-worn electronic camera video footage of the occurrence has actually not been launched to the general public.
Such police video in North Carolina isn’t categorized as a public record, as it remains in lots of states, which normally use a specified, basic course for such video footage to be openly launched.
But that’s not the case in North Carolina, which needs a judge’s order to enable such video footage to see sunlight.
