Autopsy has confirmed that Andrew Brown Jr.died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head.
Gatekeepers News reports that the 42-year-old Black man was shot on April 21 by Pasquotank County deputies in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
Andrew Womble, Pasquotank County District Attorney, stated that the shooting, which the deceased’s family described as an execution, was justified. He said Brown “recklessly” drove at the officers on the scene while trying to flee arrest.
Attorneys for the deceased’s family described the findings as “an insult and a slap in the face.”
An autopsy commissioned by Brown’s family and their attorneys said Brown suffered gunshot wounds to the right arm and one to the back of his head.
The autopsy report which was finalised Monday afternoon and released on Thursday lists the cause of death as a homicide.
“The autopsy results prove what we’ve always known to be true: Pasquotank County deputies executed Andrew Brown Jr. with a kill shot to the back of the head,” family attorneys Ben Crump, Bakari Sellers, Harry Daniels and Chantel Cherry-Lassiter said in a statement on Thursday.
“The false narrative that DA Womble has attempted to weave is completely discredited by this autopsy report.”
Gatekeepers News reports that the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Department last week said two of the three deputies involved in the shooting of Brown have returned to work and the third intends to resign.
