Following an intense investigation, a grand jury in Ferguson, Mo. has decided not to charge police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, 18, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch announced Monday night. He said the grand jury found no probable cause to file charges.
McCulloch, in a televised announcement live, said investigators found some inconsistencies in witnesses accounts. The grand jury reviewed reports, drug analysis and photographs. The grand jury was given the choice of five charges ranging from first-degree murder to voluntary manslaughter.
Federal, state and local authorities were bracing for violence as the announcement was made.
The prosecutor said that the people in the grand jury were the only ones who had reviewed all the facts. And he noted that there had been a lot of misinformation that had circulated in public about the shooting.
