A federal autopsy of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teen shot dead by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, found he died from multiple gunshot wounds and described his death as a homicide.

NBC News said the findings of the autopsy echoed those of two previous autopsies carried out by St. Louis County’s medical examiner and a private examiner hired by the Brown family. Brown suffered “severe injuries of the skull, brain and right chest’’ and appeared to have been shot in the hand at close range.

“The manner of death is homicide,’’ the Justice Department’s medical examiner ruled.


The release came from the St. Louis Prosecutor’s office on Monday. Witness interviews conducted by federal authorities and a slew of audio recordings of police transmissions leading up to and following the shooting were also released.