View of #Ferguson Thrust Michael Brown Shooting to National Attention

A week of simmering tensions boiled over in Ferguson as gunfire and tear gas flew through the air and autopsy results show Michael Brown was shot six times. Michael Brown was shot and killed by police, sparking outrage 

Ferguson, Missouri, was just a place — a working-class suburb of St. Louis — before an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by the police, before protests and looting erupted, before local forces responded with armored vehicles

According to an autopsy, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot at least six times, including two times in the head. Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson last Saturday, setting off a wave of 

Michael Brown was shot in the head and chest multiple times, according to Mary Case, the St. Louis County medical examiner. While Case declined to comment further, citing the ongoing investigation into Brown's death, another person familiar with the 

Department of Justice spokesman Brian Fallon cited a request by family members and the “extraordinary circumstances” surrounding the case of 18-year-old Michael Brown in explaining decision. “This independent