Andrew Brown Jr. was shot 5 times, including once in back of head, autopsy reveals

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Andrew Brown Jr., the 42-year old black man who died during an attempted arrest in North Carolina last week was shot five times, including once in the back of the head, his family said Tuesday.

Brent Hall, a forensic pathologist, who the family commissioned, found that Brown Jr. was shot five times, including four times in the right arm and once in the back of his head, NBC News reported.

The shot to the back of his head was fatal, Brown Jr.’s family attorneys said at a Tuesday morning news conference outside the public safety building downtown in Elizabeth City, N.C.

Brown Jr.’s hands were on the steering wheel of his car when he was shot to death Wednesday while sitting in a car in his driveway, family members said.

“Yesterday, I said he was executed,” Brown’s son Khalil Ferebee said before a crowd of more than 100 people at the news conference Tuesday. “This autopsy report showed me that was correct.”

The bullet wound to the back of Brown’s head had a trajectory of “bottom to top, left to right and back to front,” Hall’s report said.

“This, in fact, was a fatal wound to the back of Mr. Brown’s head as he was leaving the site trying to evade being shot at by these particular law enforcement officers that we believe did nothing but a straight up execution,” family lawyer Wayne Kendall said at a press conference.