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The Latest: Stream of mourners pay respect to Alton Sterling

Mourners react after viewing the body of Alton Sterling at the F.G. Clark Activity Center in Baton Rouge, La., Friday, July 15, 2016. Sterling was shot July 5 outside a Baton Rouge convenience store in an encounter with police that was caught on video. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
Mourners react after viewing the body of Alton Sterling at the F.G. Clark Activity Center in Baton Rouge, La., Friday, July 15, 2016. Sterling was shot July 5 outside a Baton Rouge convenience store in an encounter with police that was caught on video. (AP Photo/Max Becherer) Mourners react after viewing the body of Alton Sterling at the F.G. Clark Activity Center in Baton Rouge, La., Friday, July 15, 2016. Sterling was shot July 5 outside a Baton Rouge convenience store in an encounter with police that was caught on video. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

By Associated Press 3 min read

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – The Latest on the fatal shooting of a black man by Baton Rouge police officers (all times local):

9:25 a.m.

A stream of mourners is paying their respects to Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old man who was fatally shot by Baton Rouge police on July 5.

Sterling’s death was recorded on cellphone video and shared across the internet. Sterling’s death and a fatal police shooting in Minnesota helped fuel recent nationwide protests. Sterling was selling CDs outside a convenience store when two white officers pinned him to the pavement and he was fatally shot. Police said he had a gun.

Sterling’s body lay in an open casket Friday inside the basketball arena at Southern University, a historically black college in north Baton Rouge. A funeral was to take place later in the morning.