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August 19, 2014

Brown Family Attorney: Autopsy Backs Up Witness Accounts of Fatal Shooting 
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The officer who shot Michael Brown, Darren Wilson, remains in hiding and
on paid leave. Earlier on Monday, the family of Brown held a news
conference to discuss a private autopsy that revealed Brown had been
shot six times. Brown family attorney Benjamin Crump said the autopsy
backed up the accounts of witnesses who claimed Brown was shot as he
tried to flee.

Benjamin Crump: "And what does this preliminary autopsy tell us? It
verifies that the witness accounts were true, that he was shot multiple
times. And it's going to be one of those things that we have to get all
the witness statements out and look at all the autopsies, all the
evidence, to put this picture together, for his family knows that the
witnesses, what they were telling them about him being shot multiple
times in broad daylight was accurate."

The Justice Department is conducting its own autopsy in addition to
another by state medical examiners. Attorney General Eric Holder will
travel to Ferguson on Wednesday to meet with FBI agents conducting a
federal civil rights investigation into the shooting.

 

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