Kendall said the four gunshot wounds to Brown's arm were "not fatal." The autopsy report is consistent with what the family saw on the partial video, he added.
Chantel Cherry-Lassiter, another lawyer representing the Brown family, said Monday that the 20-second clip she and the family saw showed Brown with his hands on the steering wheel and not a threat to deputies, who fired as he backed his vehicle out and tried to drive away.
Brown then crashed into a tree and died within minutes of the gunshot wound to the head, Kendall said.
Sheriff's deputies were serving drug-related search and arrest warrants on Brown last Wednesday when multiple deputies fired shots, Sheriff Tommy Wooten has said. Seven deputies are on leave pending an inquiry by the State Bureau of Investigation.
The sheriff's office and the county prosecutor have released few public details.
Although a judge will consider Wednesday whether to release video of the shooting, it's unclear how soon the judge could rule. Similar cases have taken weeks to play out.
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