05-05-2017 18:57 via yahoo.com

Ferguson protestor pictured in iconic photo found dead from self-inflicted gunshot wound

The subject of an iconic photograph from the 2014 protests in Ferguson showing a man throwing a can of smoking tear gas back at police has been found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.Edward Crawford, whose image was part of a series of photographs that won the St. Louis Post-Dispatch a Pulitzer prize, was found dead overnight, his father Edward Crawford Sr. confirmed to that paper.Mr Crawford was in a car with two women when he shot himself and had been talking about being depressed.
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