Meanwhile , Wilson 's backers -- including a radio caller identifying herself as Josie , who recounted his purported version of events -- claimed that the officer only fired after the larger Brown struggled with , taunted and then ran at him . Pre - investigation : Ferguson police suspect Darren Wilson disappeared for almost four months . He shot and killed Michael Brown , an unarmed black man , in Ferguson on August 9 . No charges were filed against Wilson ; prosecutors instead took the case to a grand jury . A judge recently gave the grand jury until January 7 to decide if Wilson should be charged .
Pre - investigation : Ferguson police suspect Darren Wilson disappeared for almost four months . He shot and killed Michael Brown , an unarmed black man , in Ferguson on August 9 . No charges were filed against Wilson ; prosecutors instead took the case to a grand jury . A judge recently gave the grand jury until January 7 to decide if Wilson should be charged .