A private autopsy requested by Michael Brown's family found that he was shot at least six times, including four times in the right arm and twice in the head. One shot appeared to enter the top of Michael Brown's skull.
"One of the most telling things that we've got going on here is we've got a gunshot wound to the top of the head," explained Joseph Scott Morgan, forensics scholar at Jacksonville State University.
Morgan once served as senior forensics investigator in Fulton County.
Morgan demonstrated two possibilities that could have caused the head wound documented in the autopsy sketch. The first hinges on Michael Brown running toward the shooter.
"(If a person ducks) like you're trying to run fast, and if I have a weapon and I fire that weapon the trajectory is going to go down, throiugh your jaw and in to your shoulder," she explained.
In the second interpretation Brown is seated passively.
"If someone is seated and you fire the weapon directly in their head and their eye you get that same reaction," he said.
This autopsy is preliminary. Morgan says it is too soon for some tests to be completed, including a gunpowder residue test and toxicology report. Two other autopsies will be performed, one by St Louis County and another by the U.S. Attorney.
"Brown's body will have gone through three separate protocols, and now you're going to have a body that has passed through three separate groups of hands and there is potential for these three separate groups to render three separate opinions," he said.
Morgan added that once samples are taken in each autopsy it could affect the findings of future samples.
