“One of those individuals, at the time, came in as the officer was exiting his car, allegedly pushed the police officer back in the car, where he physically assaulted the police officer. It is our understanding at this point in the investigation that within the police car there was a struggle over the police officer’s weapon,“ Belmar said.

Belmar said the officer’s gun was fired at least once inside the police car, but the officer shot and killed Brown outside of the vehicle. Belmar said the number of shots fired was “more than a few.”

When pressed on whether Brown was fleeing at the time of those shots, Belmar demurred.

“I’m not going to be able to get into any of those types of questions,” said Belmar.