Did Andrew Brown have a criminal history?
Updated: Apr 27 2021, 6:08 ET
ANDREW Brown Jr has been described as a career drug dealer who had a criminal rap sheet over 180-pages long.
The 40-year-old was fatally shot by a cop attempting to execute the search warrant on April 21 - sparking protests in Elizabeth City, North Carolina where the shooting occurred demanding transparency.
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Did Andrew Brown have a criminal history?
According to the search warrant signed off a day before his death, Andrew Brown had a criminal rap sheet dating back more than thirty years.
Now details of the search warrant that ultimately led to Brown s death has been revealed.
Black man killed by deputies in Elizabeth City was shot in back of head, attorney says JONATHAN DREW and DENISE LAVOIE, WSOCTV.com News Staff
A Black man killed by deputies in North Carolina was shot in the back of the head and had his hands on his car steering wheel when they opened fire, attorneys for his family said Monday after relatives viewed body camera footage.
The account was the first description of the shooting of Andrew Brown Jr., who was killed by deputies serving drug-related search and arrest warrants. His death last Wednesday led to nightly protests and demands for justice in the town of Elizabeth City.
What does the Andrew Brown body cam footage show?
Updated: Apr 27 2021, 3:16 ET
THE family of Andrew Brown have been shown a 20-second snippet of the cops bodycam showing a killing that a family attorney has described as an “execution”.
The viewing came just hours after officials announced the state was going into a state of emergency ahead of the possible public release of cop footage of the fatal shooting of Brown Jr.
Read our Andrew Brown Jr. live blog for the latest updates
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Andrew Brown Jr was fatally shot while driving off in a car by a North Carolina deputy executing a search warrant on Wednesday morningCredit: Facebook/Jadine Hampton
Monday saw the fifth night of demonstrations amid calls for bodycam footage
Andrew Brown, 42, was shot and killed in his car on Wednesday in Elizabeth City
His family were finally allowed to watch body cam from the incident on Monday
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said they saw just 20 seconds of the incident
Attorneys for the family said Brown was shot in the back of his head
They said he had his hands on steering wheel when eight officers opened fire
They said Brown complied with officer commands throughout the clip
Brown s son Khalil said: My dad got executed just trying to save his life