EXCLUSIVE: Darren Wilson changed crucial elements of his story in aftermath of Michael Brown shooting - including whether he knew teenager was 'wanted thief'
- Wilson told the first officer to question him on the death that he did not know about a radio call about two teenagers being wanted for robbery
- But he later told St Louis detectives that he had matched Michael Brown to the description of wanted suspects
- He also did not initially reveal that he backed up his car towards Michael Brown and his friend, which he said subsequently
- Grand jury evidence from his squad supervisor who was first to ask him about shooting discloses discrepancy
- Wilson has now resigned from force but controversy over death of Brown still rages
Darren Wilson changed his story following the immediate aftermath of the fatal shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown to include events about which he initially denied all knowledge.
Evidence presented to the grand jury and reviewed by MailOnline has revealed a crucial difference between the officer's first account of events given to his squad supervisor on the scene and his second statement to St Louis County detectives investigating the shooting.
In Wilson's now very public account of his encounter with Michael Brown and Dorian Johnson on August 9 he has claimed that he asked Brown and Wilson to move to the sidewalk rather than walk in the street.
When they walked on, Wilson has repeatedly stated, he realized they matched the description of two suspects wanted in connection with the robbery of nearby Ferguson Market. A youth matching Brown's description had stolen a box of Swishers cigarillos.
It was this realization, he stated, that caused him to reverse his vehicle and sparked the car-side confrontation that left Brown dead on the street with six bullets in his body.
But the sworn testimony of Wilson's squad supervisor directly contradicts this account.
Wilson's supervisor was the first officer to speak with the 28-year-old cop following the shooting. The men spoke before St Louis County Police had even been notified of the incident and before the medical examiner or investigating officers had arrived on the scene.
At that time, the supervisor said:'He [Wilson] did not know anything about the stealing call.'
When pressed by the attorney questioning him, the officer reiterated that Wilson, 'did not know anything'.
Asked, 'He told you he didn't know about there being a stealing at Ferguson Market?'
The officer responded, 'Correct.'
Nor did he make any mention of reversing his police car back towards the youths.
In fact the squad supervisor stated that, in several subsequent conversations, Wilson said 'he did not have that call.'
Yet two hours after speaking to his supervisor, 28-year-old Wilson gave a very different account to the St Louis County Police detective assigned to conduct a cursory interview with the cop.
In his testimony the St Louis detective, whose name has been redacted in the transcripts that are among the thousands of pages of grand jury evidence made publicly available by Prosecutor Bob McCulloch, recalled: 'He tells me he was leaving an unrelated sick case call and was driving, it would be west on Canfield Road.
'As he's driving he hears a call that was not assigned to him for a stealing in progress at 9101 West Florissant Avenue and he provides us with that address and the nature of the call was a stealing.
'He said that the call comments indicated the suspect description was a black male wearing a black shirt and brown shorts, and that an additional call comment indicated that taken during the stealing were Cigarillos.'
It is a marked discrepancy from Wilson's admission minutes after the shooting that he had no knowledge of that incident. In the time between that denial and this detailed recollection of the suspect's description and goods stolen, Wilson had driven himself back to Ferguson Police Department Headquarters on the city's Main Street.
He had washed his hands clean of any blood and he had been permitted to bag up his own gun as evidence - acts entirely contrary to St Louis County procedure.
And in the course of an hour, he had spent time in the company of the Lieutenant Colonel, his Chief of Police Thomas Jackson, as well as an attorney from the Fraternity of Police Officers.
