Andrew Brown Jr. Shooting: FBI Opens Civil Rights Investigation
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- The FBI is investigating the police shooting death of Andrew Brown Jr, according to Spectrum News 1 RDU.
- Brown was shot and killed last week by a sheriff’s deputy in North Carolina.
- Brown’s family said an independent autopsy found he was shot in the back of the head.
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The FBI has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the fatal police shooting of Andrew Brown in North Carolina last week, according to Spectrum News 1.
The FBI field office in Charlotte confirmed its investigation to Spectrum News reporter Kyleigh Panetta. The FBI office told Panetta on Tuesday it was conducting the investigation in tandem with the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina and the US Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
An FBI spokesperson did not immediately return Insider’s request for comment Tuesday.
Brown was killed by a Pasquotank County Sheriff’s deputy on the morning of April 21. The deputy was attempting to arrest Brown on felony drug charges and the sheriff’s office said Brown was fleeing at the time of the shooting.
Lawyers for the Brown’s family on Monday said that law enforcement officers only showed them 20 seconds of body camera footage from the incident. The attorneys added that Brown’s hands were on his steering wheel when he was killed.
“We don’t feel that we got transparency,” attorney Ben Crump said at the press conference. “We only saw a snippet of the video.”
On Tuesday, Brown’s family said an independent autopsy conducted concluded that Brown died from a gunshot wound to the back of his head. Four other bullets grazed his right arm, Crump said at a Tuesday press conference.
