"Officer Darren Wilson was one of the officers who responded to the area after a dispatcher gave a description of the store robbery suspect over the police radio.
During a confrontation between Wilson and Brown, Brown was fatally shot. Some witnesses had reported seeing Brown with his hands in the air at the time he was shot; police said the shooting was part of a struggle between Brown and Wilson over Wilson’s service weapon."
http://wqad.com/2014/08/15/michael-brown-suspected-of-robbery-just-before-he-was-fatally-shot-in-ferguson/