According to The Gateway Pundit
On April 21, 42-year-old Andrew J. Brown, a well-known drug dealer in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, was shot to death in his driveway at the wheel of his vehicle by Pasquotank County deputies.
An initial search warrant signed off by North Carolina Superior Court Senior Resident Judge Jerry R. Tillett on April 20 states that Agent R.D. Johnson of the Dare County Narcotics Task Force was in communication with a confidential source who said they had been purchasing narcotics from Brown for over one year. The informant claimed that they had purchased different quantities of cocaine, “crack” cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine from Brown on numerous occasions.
Investigators believe the establishment at 421 Perry St. in Elizabeth City “is being used to store, package and distribute narcotics, namely ‘crack’ cocaine,” the warrant states. Two vehicles regularly seen at the residence were believed to be in Brown’s possession and were being used by him to store, traffic and distribute illegal narcotics. There is reason to believe that the home was being used by Brown as a “secure location” to store drugs, currency and recordation of sales or monies owed, the warrant says.
Since the shooting, seven Pasquotank County deputies have been placed on leave.
In advance of the release of the private bodycam video viewing of the incident by the Brown family, North Carolina issued a state of emergency to prevent BLM domestic terrorists from burning and looting the state over the shooting death of Andrew J. Brown.
A North Carolina law that took effect in 2016 allows law enforcement agencies to show body camera video privately to a victim’s family, but it generally requires a court to approve any public release.
It’s not clear how soon a judge could rule or how quickly the video would be released if the release is approved. In similar cases, it has sometimes taken weeks for the full legal process to play out.
The independent autopsy was performed Sunday by a pathologist hired by Brown’s family. The exam noted four wounds to the right arm and one to the head. The state´s autopsy has not been released yet.
The family’s lawyers also released a copy of the death certificate, which lists the cause of death as a ‘penetrating gunshot wound of the head.’ The certificate, signed by a paramedic services instructor who serves as a local medical examiner, describes the death as a homicide.
The autopsy results come a day after Brown’s relatives were shown a 20-second clip of footage from one deputy’s body camera.
District Attorney Andrew Womble told a judge at a hearing Wednesday that he viewed body camera video and disagreed with the characterization by attorneys for the family of Brown Jr. that his car was stationary when the shooting started.
Womble said the video shows that Brown´s car made contact with law enforcement twice before shots could be heard on the video.
‘As it backs up, it does make contact with law enforcement officers,’ he said, adding that the car stops again.
‘The next movement of the car is forward. It is in the direction of law enforcement and makes contact with law enforcement. It is then and only then that you hear shots.’