BREAKING NEWS: Autopsy reveals Michael Brown was shot SIX times in confrontation with police officer

 Michael Brown was shot six times - including a final blow to his head as he fell to the ground - according to the first autopsy results released in the controversial police shooting death.

Dr Michael M Baden, the former chief medical examiner for the city of New York, conducted the autopsy on behalf of the 18-year-old's family.

The unarmed black teen died August 9 after a confrontation with a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. While Dr Baden did not comment on the heated debate surrounding Wilson's actions, he did say the sheer amount of gun shots was out of the ordinary.


'In my capacity as the forensic examiner for the New York State Police, I would say, "You’re not supposed to shoot so many times,"' Dr Baden told the New York Times.

'Right now there is too little information to forensically reconstruct the shooting.'

Brown was hit a total of six times, with four gunshot wounds in his right arm and two in his head.
The final shot appears to have entered Brown's head at the top of the skull suggesting his head was bowed down at the time.

'This one here looks like his head was bent downward,' he said, indicating the wound at the very top of Mr. Brown’s head. 'It can be because he’s giving up, or because he’s charging forward at the officer.'

They were all fired at the front of his body, and do not appear to have been shot from close range since there was no gunpowder found on Brown's body.

The private autopsy was conducted by Dr Michael Baden, an 80-year-old former chief medical examiner for the City of New York. Pictured above testifying in court in 2007

However, Dr Baden did not have access to the clothing Brown was wearing or other key parts of the investigation such as witness and police statements.

Dr Baden is one of only 400 board-certified forensic pathologists in the country and he has reviewed autopsies for both President John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

He has performed 20,000 autopsies and hosted the HBO show 'Autopsy'.

He criticized authorities in St Louis county for keeping details of Brown's death concealed - which has only made the community more enraged.

Source Mailonline