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Here’s my theory and I bet it’s pretty damn close to the truth:

Wilson tells the Brown and Johnson to get the F on the side walk. Brown is stoned and feeling tough having just shoved the store clerk. Wilson is either annoyed by the backtalk or suspicious that these are the robbers from the store. He backs up the truck very close to Brown who is jawing at him through the window still telling him to f#*@ off. Wilson tries to open his car door and it hits Brown who pushes the door shut on Wilson and maybe shoves him. Wilson is stunned that some punk had the balls to do that. Wilson grabs Brown probably by his clothing or arm. There is a rough push/pull grapple between the me and Wilson is struck in the face and goes into full adrenaline mode. Brown too suddenly realizes that his gangsta tough guy routine has gotten him in much deeper than intended. Wilson reaches for his gun threatening to shoot. Brown instinctively grabs the arm holding the gun. It’s shaping up as life and death situation. The gun goes off in the car. Brown breaks off and runs. Wilson goes after him ears ringing—in mind he has been shot at—and probably fires a couple shots that miss. Wilson decides he can’t out run a bullet and doubles back hard (Try doing this from a sprint. You will naturally stumble forward due to your momentum, especially if you are the size of an O-lineman). Maybe he intends to charge Wilson, or maybe he actually does intend to surrender, but in the heat of the moment Wilson views the change in direction back toward him as an attack and unloads. The “arms up” is actually “arms up at the elbows” which lines up with autopsy report we have so far. That is naturally the position your arms will be in if you attempt this movement Once he is struck, Brown continues to carry forward until the last shot hits him in the top of the head.

This hypothesis lines up with what we know so and could easily be interpreted different ways in the minds of witnesses, not to mention Wilson, based on your sympathies.