By Marty Johnson - 04/27/21 12:38 PM EDT
Attorneys for the family of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man who was shot and killed by deputies in Elizabeth City, N.C., last week, said Tuesday that Brown was killed by a gunshot wound to the back of the head.
The post-mortem report was released one a day after Brown’s family was shown a short 20-second clip of the fatal incident.
After watching the brief footage, Brown’s son Khalil Ferebee described his father’s killing as an “execution.”
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“We commissioned a private individual autopsy report … because we don t have access to anything that s official,” family attorney Wayne Kendall said. “What our preliminary autopsy report shows is that there were five penetrating bullet wounds to the body of Andrew Brown Jr.
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