Story highlights The photo was taken during violence in Ferguson, MissouriEdward Crawford's uncle says he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound(CNN) It's powerful. It's seared in our memory as one of the iconic images from those turbulent nights that followed a black man's death at the hands of police in Ferguson, Missouri. St. Louis coroner's assistant Baxter Leisure said that a man with Crawford's name had died. Four days earlier, unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was shot to death by white police officer Darren Wilson. The killing ignited riots and unrest in the St. Louis area and across the nation.

Source: CNN May 05, 2017 20:48 UTC