An unresolved question in the controversial shooting death of Michael Brown is whether or not the unarmed teen may have charged at Ferguson officer Darren Wilson, giving the policeman reasonable fear to fire a barrage of fatal shots.
But new comments made by eyewitness to CNN, claim the 18-year-old only stumbled toward Wilson after being struck by gunshots fired while the officer was chasing him.
Brown “staggered dead after the second shot, 20-25 feet, to the ground,” the unidentified witness told CNN. “He was like a walking dead guy.”
Neither worker said they saw the initial struggle at Wilson’s squad car. Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson has said Wilson was ordering Brown and Johnson, 22, to get off the street when Brown attacked the officer through the SUV window and reached for his gun. A shot was fired inside the car from Wilson’s gun during the scuffle. Brown and Johnson both ran.
The second contractor told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Wilson chased Brown on foot away from the police SUV and fired at least one more shot in the direction of Brown as he was fleeing.
Both workers gave accounts that largely match the versions of other eyewitnesses, who said Brown stopped, turned around, and put his hands up in surrender, and that Wilson fired multiple
