Ferguson shooting: Wilson interview details released

FERGUSON, Mo.

Further details emerged about the August 9 fatal shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson after the grand jury decision not to indict was announced Monday. Photographs were also newly released.

Evidence from the investigation was released Monday night after the announcement was made by St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch.

Wilson was interviewed by a detective the morning of August 10, the day after he shot Brown.

The following are excerpts from that interview.

(Please note: Text is as it appears in testimony.)

WHEN HE FIRST SAW BROWN

DW: "I had head on the radio that there was a stealing in progress from the Ferguson Market...I head a brief description of black male with a black tee-shirt"

"So I'm right at the intersection. Um I back up ten feet I go to open my door say "Hey come here" He said What the ---- are you gonna do?" And, he shut the door on me. A, the door was only open maybe a foot. I didn't have chance to get my leg out. I shut the door and he came up and approached the door. I opened the door again trying to push him back tell him to get back. Um, he said something. I'm not sure exactly what it was and then started swinging and punching at me from outside the vehicle."

DET: How is he assaulting you?

DW: The first time he had struck me somewhere in this area but it was like glancing blow cause I was able to defend a little bit. Um, after that he, I was doing the just scrambling trying to get his arms out of my face and him from grabbin me and everything else.

WHAT HE TRIED TO DO BEFORE FIRING AND WHY HE FIRED

DW: I tried to go for my mace, I couldn't reach around my body to grab it and I know how mace affects me so if I used that in that close proximity I was gonna be disabled per sec. And I didn't know if it was even gonna work on him if I would be able to get a clear shot or anything else...I don't carry a taser so that option was gone and even if I had one with a cartridge on there, it probably wouldn't have hit him anywhere.

Um, I thought I was already compromised enough. I drew my firearm, I pointed at him..."stop Im going to shoot you is what I ordered him to get on the ground." He said your too much of a ----ing ----- to shoot me" and grabbed my gun. When he grabbed my gun, he twisted it, pointed at me and into my hip pelvic area

Um, I know his hand was around my trigger finger which was inside the trigger guard. Um and when he grabbed it he pushed it down and angled it to where it was like this in my hip

I was guaranteed he was going to shoot me. That's what I thought his-his goal was. He had already manipulated I was not in control of the gun. I was able to tilt myself a little bit and push it down and away towards the side of my hip

WHEN WILSON FIRED

He was-he had me completely overpowered while I was sittin in the car.

His fingers were over in between from the hammer and the slide preventing it from firing....Um, I tried again. It fired. When it fired my window had been down the entire time.

(second shot)

Okay and you said you shot that second time right? Where did that round, did you shoot that round through

Im not sure...It was a, just one of these to get him off me

THE FINAL CONFRONTATION

After I said on the radio "shots fired send me more cars. I was yelling at him to stop and get on the ground. He kept running...When he stopped, he turned, looked at me, made like a grunting noise and had the most intense aggressive face Ive ever seen on a person"

After I fired multiple shots I paused for a second, yelled at him to get on the ground again, he was in the same state. Still chargingin hands still in his waistband...I fired another set of shots. Same thing, still running at me, hadn't slowed down, hands still in his waistband. He gets about eight to ten feet away, hes still coming at me in the same way. I fired more shots. On of those, however many of them hit on him in the head and he went down right there."