FERGUSON, Mo. —

Eleven years after the officer shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked waves of protest against police brutality, the friend who was with Brown when it happened has been shot dead.

Dorian Johnson, 33, was the victim of a shooting at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday at a block of apartments less than a mile from where Brown died, according to Ferguson Police spokesperson Patricia Washington. Advertisement

Johnson’s account of Brown’s 2014 killing helped inspire the iconic “hands up, don’t shoot” protest chant heard in demonstrations across the U.S. that year, though subsequent investigations called into question the details of Brown’s actions before he died.

One person is being held in custody over Sunday’s fatal shooting of Johnson and “the investigation is stil

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