Curtis Minter, right of Akron, Ohio, prays at the memorial to Michael Brown in the Canfield Apartment complex on Nov. 29, 2014. "This case has too many unanswered questions not to deserve a trial," said Minter.
This photo released by the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's office on Nov. 24, 2014, shows Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson during his medical examination after he fatally shot Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo.A glance at developments in FergusonST. LOUIS - The officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown resigned from the Ferguson Police Department as residents of the St. Louis suburb continued cleaning up Saturday following violent protests ignited by a grand jury's decision not to indict the officer earlier in the week.Here's a look at the latest developments:OFFICER'S RESIGNATIONAn attorney for Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who killed Brown, said Saturday that Wilson had resigned effective immediately. Wilson told the St. Louis Dispatch he decided to step down after the police department received threats of violence if he stayed on the force, saying: "I'm not willing to let someone else get hurt because of me."Wilson, 28, had been an officer with the department for six years.PROTESTS ONGOINGProtests have been ongoing in and around Ferguson since Brown was killed. About 40 protesters were chanting outside Ferguson police headquarters Saturday night, and many seemed unmoved by Wilson's resignation. Several merely shrugged their shoulders when asked about their reaction. One protester, Rick Campbell, said he didn't care about the resignation, saying: "I've been protesting out here since August."Protesters also started a march from Ferguson to Gov. Jay Nixon's mansion in Jefferson City, about 120 miles away. Organized by the NAACP, the march is expected to take seven days, with participants calling for new Ferguson police leadership and police reforms nationwide.Demonstrators turned their focus to disrupting commerce on Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year, by holding numerous protests in several U.S. cities. Authorities temporarily closed three large shopping malls in suburban St. Louis following protests there, while about 200 people demonstrated along Chicago's popular Magnificent Mile shopping district. Eleven people arrested at a mall in Raleigh, North Carolina.FAMILIES OF BROWN, MARTIN MEETBrown's father, Michael Brown Sr., attended a prayer vigil Friday night in Miami Gardens, Florida. He met with Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, whose 17-year-old son Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012 by a neighborhood watch volunteer.Tracy Martin told Miami television station WFOR he offered Michael Brown Sr. encouragement and told him "God has his hands on the situation, and he's gonna be OK."The vigil was part of the annual Gospel Explosion Concert hosted by rapper Flo Rida.THE CASEBrown, who was black, was unarmed when he was killed by Wilson, who is white, on Aug. 9 following a confrontation in a Ferguson street. Some witnesses said Brown had his hands up when Wilson shot him. Wilson told a grand jury that investigated the case that he feared for his life when Brown hit him and reached for his gun.The shooting stirred racial tensions and led to numerous protests in Ferguson, a predominantly black community patrolled by a mostly white police force. A grand jury was assembled to investigate the shooting, and its nine white and three black members spent three months hearing more than 70 hours of testimony from 60 witnesses. Their decision not to indict Wilson was announced Monday night, prompting violent protests and looting that resulted in at least a dozen commercial buildings being destroyed.WHAT'S NEXTThe U.S. Justice Department has its own investigation into possible civil rights violations that could result in federal charges for Wilson, but investigators would need to satisfy a rigorous standard of proof. The federal agency also has launched a broad investigation into the Ferguson Police Department.
FERGUSON, Mo. - The Ferguson police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown has resigned, his attorney said Saturday, nearly four months after the confrontation between the white officer and unarmed black 18-year-old that ignited protests in the St. Louis suburb and across the nation.
Darren Wilson, who has been on administrative leave since the Aug. 9 shooting, resigned effective immediately, said his attorney, Neil Bruntrager. He declined further immediate comment.
The Brown family attorney, Benjamin Crump, didn't immediately return phone and email messages from The Associated Press.
Wilson told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he was stepping down out of his "own free will" after the police department told him it had received threats of violence if he remained an employee.
"I'm not willing to let someone else get hurt because of me," said Wilson, who had been with the department for six years.
Wilson fatally shot Brown after a scuffle in the middle of a street, where Brown's body lay for several hours as police investigated and a crowd of angry onlookers gathered. Several days of tense and at times violent protests followed, prompting Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to call in the National Guard to help.
Some witnesses have said Brown had his hands up when Wilson shot him. Wilson told a grand jury that reviewed the case that he feared for his life when Brown hit him and reached for his gun.
The grand jury spent more than three months reviewing evidence before announcing Monday that it wouldn't indict Wilson, igniting violence among protesters that resulted in at least a dozen commercial buildings in the area being destroyed by fire. Several other large but peaceful protests have since been held in Ferguson and across the country.
The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a civil rights investigation into the shooting and a separate investigation of police department practices.
Wilson's resignation didn't seem to affect protesters outside Ferguson police headquarters Saturday night.
Rick Campbell said he didn't care about the resignation, saying: "I've been protesting out here since August." Several other protesters merely shrugged their shoulders when asked about the resignation.
"We were not after Wilson's job," civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton said in a written statement. "We were after Michael Brown's justice."
Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson didn't immediately return a message left on his cellphone seeking comment.
Wilson spent months in hiding and made no public statements following the shooting. Wilson, who recently got married, broke his silence after the grand jury decision, telling ABC News that he couldn't have done anything differently in the encounter with Brown.
Wilson said he had a clean conscience because "I know I did my job right." Brown's shooting was the first time he fired his gun on the job, he said. Asked whether the encounter would have unfolded the same way if Brown had been white, Wilson said yes.
Wilson began his career in nearby Jennings before moving to the Ferguson job a few years ago. He had no previous complaints against him and a good career record, according to Jackson, who called Wilson "an excellent police officer."
A few months before the shooting, Wilson had received a commendation for detaining a suspect in a drug case.