FOG BLOG U.S. NEWS LOG: INDEPENDENT AUTOPSY SHOWS ANDREW BROWN SHOT 5 TIMES, ONCE IN HEAD:

Independent autopsy shows Andrew Brown was shot 5 times, once in the back of the head: Family.......The family of a 42-year-old Black man who died in a barrage of bullets fired at his car by North Carolina sheriff's deputies said Tuesday that an independent autopsy shows he was shot five times, including once in the back of the head.

Andrew Brown Jr.'s relatives and attorneys announced the outcome of the postmortem exam they commissioned during a news conference Tuesday morning outside the Pasquotank County Sheriff's Department in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, saying it confirms he was "executed."

"Yesterday, I said he was 'executed.' This autopsy report shows me that was correct," said Brown's son, Khalil Ferebee.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper issued a statement on Tuesday that called for a special prosecutor to investigate the shooting.

The announcement came a day after family members were allowed to view what they described as a 20-second clip from one police body camera of the unarmed Brown being shot to death with his hands on the steering wheel of his car outside his home in Elizabeth City.

Dr. Brent Dwayne Hall, the former medical examiner for five northwest North Carolina counties, performed the independent autopsy, the family's attorney's said.