Prosecutor releases more Ferguson documents

Source: AP-Excite

By DAVID A. LIEB

A prosecutor released hundreds of pages of additional documents Saturday from the investigation into the police shooting of Michael Brown, including an interview transcript of a friend who initially asserted that he had seen Brown get shot in the back.

St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch said the newly released records were inadvertently excluded from the thousands of pages of other documents made public Nov. 24, when a grand jury decided not to charge Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson for killing Brown.

The freshly publicized documents include a transcript of an interview of Brown's friend Dorian Johnson conducted by the FBI and county police just four days after the Aug. 9 confrontation in which the white officer shot the black 18-year-old. Previously released forensic evidence showed that Brown was not shot in the back but was struck by bullets in the head, chest and arm.

Johnson's account to investigators was generally similar to his later grand jury testimony, in which he portrayed Wilson as the aggressor during a struggle that began at the officer's vehicle and led to a brief chase before Brown's fatal shooting.

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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Brown family shows Michael Brown. The St. Louis County prosecutor has released more documents related to the investigation of the shooting of Brown by a Ferguson police officer, including a transcript of a police interview with the friend who was with Brown when he was killed. Prosecutor Robert McCulloch said he inadvertently didn't include the records made public Saturday, Dec. 13, when he released many of the documents related to the case last month after the grand jury decided not to charge Officer Darren Wilson for killing Brown. (AP Photo/Brown Family, File)

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