His family says he would be the last person to support rioting and looting in his name.
Via St. Louis Dispatch:
Michael Brown posted a haunting message on Facebook last week as he prepared to enter a new phase in his life: college.
“if i leave this earth today,” he wrote to a friend, “at least youll know i care about others more then i cared about my damn self.”
Brown, 18, died Saturday after a Ferguson police officer shot him multiple times outside an apartment complex. Brown was two days from starting class at Vatterott College. Close friends had been packing up and departing for schools such as Kansas State University and Arkansas Baptist University on sports scholarships.
“Everyone else wanted to be a football player, a basketball player,” said Gerard Fuller, who had known Brown since second grade at Pine Lawn Elementary School. “He wanted to own his own business. He’d say, ‘Let’s make something out of nothing.’”