<cite class="el-editorial-source">Ferguson, Missouri (CNN)</cite>Crowds scatter and duck for cover around him. But a man in a white T-shirt sprints forward, waving what appears to be a gun in his hand.
Investigators say that image, captured in a surveillance video released by the St. Louis County Police on Tuesday, shows the chaotic scene that erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, as a shooting broke out early Monday during protests marking the anniversary of Michael Brown's death. The man holding a handgun, they say, is 18-year-old Tyrone Harris.
Police have said they later shot the teen after he unleashed a "remarkable amount of gunfire" at officers, a characterization his family disputes.
"From what I heard, he was there with some friends and they had a confrontation. They start shooting at the friends, and he just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time," Harris' father, Tyrone Harris Sr., told CNN affiliate KMOV.
His aunt, Karen Harris, said the teen attended the protests because he was friends with Brown. Recounting what other family members who were with him described, she said her nephew wasn't carrying a gun and never fired at police. He was "running for his life" just like everyone else, she said, when gunshots rang out.
But police say Harris was firing gunshots himself, an account another person who said he was at the scene of the shooting corroborated.
"Tyrone was right next to me. He was shooting back at them and all that. ... And police shot back at him," 18-year-old Seth Norfleet told CNN.
Authorities have said Harris is hospitalized in critical condition. Prosecutors have charged him with four counts of first-degree assault on law enforcement, five counts of armed criminal action and one count of discharging a firearm at a motor vehicle.
