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In a Monday, Nov. 24, 2014 photo, Daren Seals, center back, stands behind Lezley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown, as crowds stand in front of the Ferguson police station listening to the radio broadcast of St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch announcing that Darren Wilson would not be indicted in the death of Brown. St. Louis County police say Daren Seals’ body was found in a burning vehicle shortly before 2 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016, in Riverview near Ferguson, and that his death was being investigated as a homicide. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP) (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

Police probe shooting death of Ferguson activist Seals

RIVERVIEW, Mo. – A 29-year-old man who police say was fatally shot before his body was found in a burning vehicle near St. Louis was a highly visible activist during protests over the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson.

St. Louis County police say Daren Seals’ body was found early Tuesday in Riverview near Ferguson. His death is being investigated as a homicide. Authorities spelled his name as Daren, but other records show it as Darren.

Eighteen-year-old Brown, who was black and unarmed, was shot and killed in August 2014 by white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. The death and a grand jury’s decision not to indict Wilson led to sometimes-violent protests.

Viral video shows Seals comforting Brown’s sobbing mother atop a car the night the grand jury’s decision was announced.

Other activists during the Ferguson protests mourned Seals on social media Wednesday.

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